Aug 26 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
- U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that he was taking the extraordinary step of removing Lisa Cook from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve.
- Lisa Cook said that she would not step down from the Federal Reserve, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump said that he was taking the extraordinary step of removing her from the central bank's board of governors.
- U.S. President Donald Trump signaled on Monday that he would pursue investments in major U.S. companies, describing his new economic strategy as an attempt to "get as much as I can."
- SpaceX scrubbed the 10th test flight of Starship, the mammoth rocket that Elon Musk hopes to use to take people to Mars, for the second night in a row on Monday.