By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) -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.

Bitcoin slid below $116K and Ethereum lost over 4% as crypto markets turned risk-off ahead of Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s final Jackson Hole keynote.

What will Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signal about interest rates at this year's Jackson Hole gathering? The central-bank gathering has sometimes been a venue for marking shifts in Fed policy,

Jerome Powell has the ideal platform Friday to deliver a clear signal the Federal Reserve is about to resume cutting interest rates. But the economy isn’t giving him an equally clear signal that now is the time.

One of this week's big events is Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's speech at the central bank's annual symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyo., on Friday, and he may turn out to be less inclined to cut interest rates than many think.

Jerome Powell has the ideal platform Friday to deliver a clear signal the Federal Reserve is about to resume cutting interest rates. But the economy isn’t giving him an equally clear signal that now is the time.

The dollar was edging up as investors awaited the Federal Reserve's Jackson Hole economic symposium later this week. Fed Chair Jerome Powell will speak Friday at the event and the market will be looki

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.