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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.

Gold prices rose on Tuesday, buoyed by lower treasury yields and a weaker dollar amid prospects of lower U.S. interest rates, while investors looked ahead to the Federal Reserve chair's speech at Jackson Hole later this week.

According to Bloomberg Economics, "Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has the opportunity to settle the speculation with his speech at the annual Jackson Hole Symposium", but economists Anna Wong, Stuart Paul, Eliza Winger, Estelle Ou and Chris G. Collins think he won't be as frank this year.

U.S. stocks ended mostly flat on Monday as investors followed the meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and awaited Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's Friday speech at the annual monetary-policy symposium in Jackson Hole,

FILE PHOTO: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy meets some of the European leaders at the Ukrainian Embassy, ahead of their meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 18, 2025. Italian Prime Ministry /Handout via REUTERS/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) - What matters in U.S. and global markets today

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.