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.

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.

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.

Wall Street's main indexes were set for a muted open on Monday - in a quiet start to a week packed with corporate earnings reports from major retailers and the Federal Reserve's annual symposium in Jackson Hole.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is scheduled to speak at a research conference on Friday in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. What can we expect?

The investing world will turn its attention to northwestern Wyoming in the week ahead, with Chair Jerome Powell set to give his most important policy speech of the

By Samuel Indyk and Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) -Wall Street and European shares were flat to marginally lower on Monday ahead of a potentially eventful week for U.S. interest rate policy,