2026-09-24 · Column
The Week Ahead: PCE, Jobs, and the Micron Print
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Earnings and macro collide — Wednesday's chip giant, Friday's jobs report, and the data in between.
A stacked week on both calendars:
Tuesday: Consumer confidence + JOLTS job openings. Carnival, CarMax, Concentrix report — a consumer triple-header.
Wednesday: ADP employment, core PCE, and Q2 GDP — then Micron after the bell.
Thursday: Nike, Accenture, McCormick.
Friday: The September jobs report — nonfarm payrolls, unemployment rate, wage growth.
The read: with the December funding deadline pushed to December 11, fiscal drama is off the table — this week's data is the market's only macro story. Jobs Friday decides the Fed's November cut math; Micron decides whether AI hardware keeps its crown.
Print it, pin it, plan around it.
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