Coming Week: Data Barrage

The calendar may be changing, but Wall Street's worry list remains the same after a blowout year for stocks.

"The big question for next week will be if people get down to business or wait to see if we get any follow-through from the year-end rally," says Paul Mendelsohn, chief investment officer with Windham Financial. "This past year, the second half of the year we've been living from data point to data point, and that could become potentially more critical in 2007."

While 2006 represented a big improvement from the previous year for the major indices, some expect the upside extremes to balance out in January. The S&P 500 ended the year with a gain of 13.6%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged 16.3%, and the Nasdaq Composite jumped 9.5%. ...