Stock index futures were muted on Thursday, a day after Wall Street ended mostly lower as investors continued to await Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's speech at Jackson Hole on Friday.

Dow Jones futures fall by 0.11%, trading around 44,950, along with the S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures steady around 6 ...

The local sharemarket surges nearly 23 per cent from its April lows in an unprecedented move which shocks fund managers.