Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's speech at the Jackson Hole conference on Friday comes amid the labor market showing signs of weakness and inflation ticking higher due to tariffs.

Financial markets are taking in a collective breath ahead of Jerome Powell's eighth and final keynote Jackson Hole speech as Federal Reserve Chair. If the moves following his last seven are any guide,

Fed chair Jerome Powell will deliver remarks at Jackson Hole on Friday. State Street's chief strategist lays out what investors should listen for.

A potential candidate to succeed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, David Zervos, said that it’s inaccurate to describe the US central bank as independent, and characterized the outgoing Fed chief as aligned with the political left.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday called on a top policymaker at the Federal Reserve to resign, after one of his allies alleged that she committed mortgage fraud.

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.

The administration accused the official, Lisa Cook, of mortgage fraud and said it would refer the matter for criminal investigation.

The takeaway is that markets aren’t pricing in any sort of “succession premium” tied to any one chairman. The glidepath of monetary policy — regardless of Powell’s successor — appears structural, anchored to the Fed’s backward-looking framework . If that holds, it would mark a break from recent history.

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