WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of the army withdrew his name from consideration late Friday, becoming the Trump administration’s first high-profile designate to drop out of the confirmation process. Vincent Viola, the founder of the Wall Street trading firm Virtu Financial Inc. and owner of the Florida Panthers hockey team, said in a statement that he was withdrawing because the challenges of separating...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 04, 2017 03:45 UTC