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Markets: Yellen takes centre stage

Janet Yellen takes centre stage at the Jackson Hole central banking symposium - investors waiting nervously for any steer on future U.S. rate hikes. But as Kirsty Basset reports, the Fed chief also faces a more fundamental question: is conventional monetary policy running out of road?