The Nasdaq and S&P 500 dipped on Tuesday driven by tech stocks, as investors gear up for what Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell will say about the path of interest rates at a key conference later in the week.

The Federal Reserve chairman is under bombardment from Donald Trump and battling an insurgency within the central bank as he heads to Jackson Hole.

Powell’s Jackson Hole speech looms as markets temper Fed rate-cut bets, with hot PPI data, labor market weakness, and tariff risks clouding outlook.

The dollar was mixed on Tuesday as traders awaited the Federal Reserve's Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium later this week for further clues on U.S. interest rate 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.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's upcoming speech at the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium on Friday is being billed as a pivotal, "make-or-break" moment for the central bank's more dovish contingent.

Incoming information has confounded Fed Chair Jerome Powell's data-dependent strategy by pulling in both directions.

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,