Markets Hold Steady Ahead of Powell’s Jackson Hole Speech

Global stocks were flat on Friday as investors awaited a speech by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at the Jackson Hole symposium. MSCI’s broadest global index was flat, as were shares in Europe. Futures on Wall Street were between 0.1 and 0.2 percent higher. In Asia, China’s CSI 300 Index climbed 2.1% on a wave…