By Pete Schroeder

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Policy uncertainty, including on global trade and central bank independence, and overall geopolitical risk topped the list of financial stability concerns in a new Federal Reserve survey released on Friday.

The biannual Financial Stability Report found that acute concern about trade had abated somewhat, while worry about artificial intelligence was on the rise.

Global trade risk was the top-cited concern in the April version of the survey, but by late October, when the latest survey concluded, it had disappeared as a singular worry. Some 61% of respondents now cited policy uncertainty overall, which included trade, central bank independence, and availability of economic data, as a top stability concern.

It was the first time central bank independ

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