World Week Ahead Weak US payrolls lift focus on earnings, FOMC minutes

World Week Ahead Weak US payrolls lift focus on earnings, FOMC minutes
By Margreet Dietz April 8 (BusinessDesk) – A fresh round of earnings will set the tone for Wall Street after US stocks posted their largest weekly slide of 2013 on mounting evidence the recovery has slowed. A much weaker-than-expected monthly jobs report on Friday capped a week of disappointing data on the American economy which has raised concern about corporate earnings with Alcoa, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo among the companies reporting in the next few days. Standard & Poor's 500 Index earnings are expected to have risen just 1.5 p...