Here are the 3 big things we're watching in the stock market this week

The federal government closed up shop last week. You might not have known that if the stock market's performance was your guide: The S & P 500 finished the week at a record high on a six-day win streak . But the longer the shutdown in Washington drags on, the more attention Wall Street may start to give it. For now, the market calculus is relatively simple: a temporary shutdown is unlikely to materially alter the trajectory of the U.S. economy and corporate profits, considering that the hundreds of thousand ...