What to watch this week
After another jam-packed week of news and earnings, the earnings and economic calendar suggests a tamer five-day stretch awaits investors in the week ahead. Tech stocks this past week had one of their worst stretches of the year, with declines in Palantir (PLTR) and Nvidia (NVDA) leading the tech-heavy Nasdaq to a 3% decline. The index posted its worst week since "Liberation Day," despite staging a late-session comeback on Friday. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) fell 1.7% for the week, and the Dow (^DJI) lost closer to 1.3%. A weekend Senate vote lifted optimism for an end to the US government shutdown, which officially became the longest on record last week and is poised to extend into a sixth week. While the stoppage continues to crimp US government data releases, private industry sources...










