by Josh Schafer
Yahoo! Finance
A turbulent five days for markets, featuring rising tensions in the Middle East and a port strike that both started and stopped, was capped off by a better-than-expected September jobs report that helped stocks close marginally up on the week.
For the first week of October the S&P 500 (^GSPC) rose 0.2%, while the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) and Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) rose about 0.1%.
An update on inflation and the start of third quarter earnings reports will grab investor attention in the week ahead.