European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde will be one of the speakers at this week's Jackson Hole gathering. (Ronald Wittek/EPA/Shutterstock) This week's set-piece event is the Jackson Hole central-bank gathering in Wyoming, slated for Thursday ...

gives a speech tomorrow in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Retailer earnings continue on Thursday as well, with Walmart and Ross stores due to report. Results from Home Depot and Lowe’s earlier this week were warmly received, with investors pushing their stocks ...

Liquidity constraints pose a significant challenge for BTC bulls looking to engineer a steep uptrend well into the year-end.

India's equity benchmarks are set to open little changed on Thursday, following a five-session rally driven by tax-cut hopes, as investors await the Federal Reserve's annual symposium for rate trajectory cues.

Powell has never responded directly to Trump's provocations, and I, personally, expect this issue to play a predominant role at his latest meeting in Jackson Hole, perhaps even more so than the interest rate discussion. The independence of central banks is much more important than a 25 basis point change in the coming month.

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.

U.S. stock-market futures rose slightly Sunday, after Friday’s summit between U.S. and Russian leaders ended without a major breakthrough and as investors await this week’s Fed gathering in Jackson Hole,

Asia shares trade mixed on Thursday, as tech shares stabilized from their recent losses. Australian markets hit record highs, driven by strong business activity data for August. On the geopolitical front,