Inflation Update and the Start of Q3 Earnings: What to Know This Week

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.

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