The week ahead will be jam-packed with market-moving data, all in the span of four days, following the long holiday-weekend in the United States. Nonfarm payrolls are forecast to rise by a respectable 150,000 over the month of May, a range that has lately been the fallback estimate for the Street, given the kind of limbo that has overtaken the jobs market. A mix of contradictory factors, including volatile gas prices, strengthening consumer confidence and spending, as well as economic uncertainty regarding the eurozone have all made for a very confusing picture. But there are a couple reasons for optimism this time ... (full story)