U.S. stock investors ready for earnings start By: MarketWatch January 08, 2011 at 00:00 AM EST Markets next week are apt to be focused on earnings as the first trickle of numbers from the last quarter of 2010 comes in. Read More >> Related Stocks: Alcoa Home Depot Intel Corp International Business Machines JPMorgan Chase & Co McDonald's Corp Standard & Poors 500 Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.