Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will deliver a keynote address at the annual Jackson Hole event on Friday at a crucial time as the economy anticipates the central bank's next interest rate cut and as his tenure at the helm of the Fed winds down.

Wall Street will be listening closely to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's speech Friday at the Jackson Hole economic policy summit, where he could signal whether the central bank is ready to cut borrowing costs at its next meeting in September.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will speak Friday during an annual economic policy gathering to give his outlook on the economy. It’s a time of high uncertainty with inflation still

Investors are tracking talks aimed at ending the Russia-Ukraine war and awaiting Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's speech at Jackson Hole at the end of the week.

U.S. stocks remain near unchanged, digesting last week's gains. Investors look to key earnings and an annual Fed conference for direction this week.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell used the central bank's annual Wyoming research conference to promise inflation-fighting rigor when it was needed in 2022, then last year he came to the defense of the job market with promises of lower interest rates when the unemployment rate seemed on a steady rise.

With market participants looking ahead to Friday's Jackson Hole speech from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, there are expectations on Wall Street that he may not be as inclined to cut interest rates in September as previously thought.