Coming Week: Job Shadow

The coming week will begin a day late, but the dollars won't be in short supply with a big payroll number on tap.

"Usually, the market unlimbers after a long weekend," says Larry Wachtel, senior market analyst at Wachovia. "But traders should be back in the swing of things by Friday's important May jobs number."

But traders will have other economic data to sift through before Friday's major report. On Tuesday, May consumer confidence numbers will be the first dose of data traders receive after the Memorial Day holiday. According to Thomson First Call, economists expect a reading of 101, down from 109.2 in April. ...