Later this week, economists, central bankers and members of the business press will gather in Jackson Hole, Wyo. for the Kansas City Fed’s annual Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium.

This week's set-piece event is the Jackson Hole central-bank gathering in Wyoming, slated for Thursday through Saturday. Investors will be glued to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's speech, hoping for any insight into whether the central bank might kick off interest-rate cuts in September.

WASHINGTON: US Federal Reserve (Fed) chairman Jerome Powell (pic) used the central bank's annual Wyoming research conference to promise inflation-fighting rigour when it was needed in 2022, then last year he came to the defence of the job market with promises of lower interest rates when the unemployment rate seemed on a steady rise.