29-04-2016 21:30 via news.yahoo.com

Wall Street Week Ahead - With weak earnings in tow, focus turns to jobs data

By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - Coming off a barrage of flimsy company earnings reports that included Apple's first revenue drop in 13 years, investors will turn to April jobs data for signs of budding resilience or further weakening in the second quarter. U.S. nonfarm payrolls, unemployment and wages data are due Friday May 6, when the economy is expected to have added 200,000 jobs in April, with the unemployment rate unchanged at 5 percent and a wage increase of 0.3 percent, according to
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