Obama gets down to staff business

CHICAGO: US president-elect Barack Obama, who will inherit the worst financial crisis in decades on January 20, is expected to name his Treasury Secretary soon.

Timothy Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, former Treasury secretary Lawrence Summers and former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker are among the likely candidates.

Two days after his election victory on Tuesday, Obama appeared to be getting close to naming his chief of staff, too.