Three Federal Reserve officials appeared lukewarm on Thursday to the idea of an interest rate cut next month, as investors geared up for U.S. central bank chief Jerome Powell’s speech to the annual Jackson Hole conference in Wyoming. “I walk into every meeting with an open mind,” Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack said in an interview with Yahoo Finance on the sidelines of the three-day symposium, which is hosted by the Kansas City Fed. “But with the data I have right now and with the information I have, if the meeting was tomorrow, I would not see a case for reducing interest rates,” Hammack said. Speaking on ... (full story)