Stocks start the week just shy of record highs, underpinned by a well-received corporate earnings season and hopes the Federal Reserve will soon start reducing official borrowing costs again. Investors are therefore keen that Friday’s keynote address by Fed Chair Jerome Powell at the Jackson Hole symposium will be suitably dovish.

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

When Nvidia, the chip producer, reports earnings next week, investors expect the S&P 500 to have a bigger reaction than when the Fed chair delivers a big speech on Friday.

The stock market is heading into a catalyst-filled week as Fed Chair Jerome Powell gets ready to speak at Jackson Hole and big retailers report earnings.

President Trump's tariffs continue to affect global markets and the economy. Follow along for live updates on stocks, bonds and other markets, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite.

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.

President Trump's tariffs continue to affect global markets and the economy. Follow along for live updates on stocks, bonds and other markets, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite.

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.