Investors have all eyes fixed on the Federal Reserve’s annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyo., as the Fed charts the future direction of the monetary policy in what could be a defining moment for the market’s summer story.

Three Federal Reserve officials appeared lukewarm on Thursday to the idea of an interest rate cut next month, as investors geared up for U.S. central bank chief Jerome Powell's speech to the annual J...

“What the put-call ratio tells you is that, given high expectation of rate cuts in Sept., the market is more sensitive to the risk of Powell sounding hawkish than dovish,” said Peter Chung, head of r...