The Business Week Ahead

The week starts fast with the ISM and unit vehicle sales on Monday, offering important advance signals on manufacturing and retail sales. ADP's payroll estimate could move the markets on Wednesday but it will be Friday's September employment report of course that will be the week's focus. The Econoday consensus is calling for a respectable 168,000 rise in non-farm payrolls, a gain that would not raise concerns of labor-market overheating but would be up from August's more moderate 151,000 gain.