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A crowded market calendar promises analysts no quiet evenings
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Jim Cramer expects more market volatility in a week crowded with earnings from Apple, AMD and other major companies, the midterm elections and the monthly jobs report. Each event offers investors a different piece of information, and none is obliged to arrive in a convenient sequence. Company results can change assessments of sales and spending, while the jobs report gives a fresh reading on the labor market. Election results can affect expectations about policy. Those signals do not necessarily point in the same direction, so a busy calendar can produce competing interpretations rather than one tidy conclusion. Cramer's forecast is a view about the week ahead, not a guarantee that markets will move in a particular way. Investors will still have to weigh the actual numbers and events as they arrive. A strong result for one company, for example, does not settle the outlook for every other business reporting that week. The market preview nevertheless has a comforting ritual: list everything that might matter, warn that prices could move and leave the audience to arrange its sleep around the schedule. By Friday, the calendar may be empty, but the explanations will have multiplied. The only certain shortage is space between events.
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