Stock-market rally faces Fed, tech earnings and jobs data in make-or-break week

Stock-market investors may take their cues from a series of important events in the week ahead, including the Federal Reserve’s monetary-policy meeting, a closely-watched December employment report and an onslaught of earnings from megacap technology names, which all promise insight into the state of the economy and interest-rate outlook. 

U.S. stocks got a boost over the past week from encouraging data which showed the inflationary pressures continued to moderate in December, the latest sign that price increases are slowing…