Stocks climbed as investors await a speech from Fed Chair Jerome Powell at the annual economic conference in Jackson Hole, Wy.

<div class="block">Stocks climbed as investors await a speech from Fed Chair Jerome Powell at the annual economic conference in Jackson Hole, Wy.</div>

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Stocks Rise Ahead of Powell Speech in Jackson Hole

The trading day off to the races, celebrating the market opened the Massapequa International Little League and 12 youth softball team. We like to see that a lot of smiling faces, parents and those amazing players on the podium technologies up there at the NASDAQ in Times Square. So let's take a look at how the market opened on this Friday. We did sputter into the close yesterday, just kind of steady losses. But stocks recovering today with fractional gains as investors and traders do await fed chair, Jerome Powell's big speech at Jackson Hall. Of course, is the annual economic symposium. All of the fed heads are there including the chair himself and investors certainly want to know the passport for interest rates. So the dow and the NASDAQ excuse me, up about half a percent. That would be a positive sign and the S and P 500 up about 4/10 of a percent. So I think betting that the fed share is going to play it easy.