Jobs. Fed decision. Earnings galore. The week ahead has it all. First, the fourth-quarter reports. While only six companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average are reporting next week, about 20% of the S & P 500 reports, making it the biggest week of earnings this season. It’s also the Club’s biggest week. We’ll hear from more than one-third of Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust portfolio — 13 companies — including a whopping nine on Thursday alone, the busiest single day of this season. Obviously, the numbers matter, but we’ll also pay close attention to what the management teams have to say about 2023 and beyond in their conference calls with analysts and investors. ( Microsoft ‘s (MSFT) release on Tuesday this week offered further validation for doing this kind of homework, which also happens to be one of Jim Cramer’s long-held investing principles : Wait until the analyst conference call before making a trade.) Here’s the schedule for our Club stocks: Tuesday: Caterpillar (CAT)…
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