Wall Street Week Ahead: Investors Upbeat on Data, Fed; Wary of Trump

In an ordinary world, a U.S. Federal Reserve meeting, jobs data and a hefty number of earnings reports next week should provide investors with welcome distraction from speculation about the U.S. President’s policy plans. But the current world is less than ordinary and in the second week after his inauguration as U.S. president, the likelihood is that Donald Trump’s voice will still ring louder in investors’ ears than economic data and the words of Fed chair Janet Yellen.