MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL On the 25th anniversary of Black Monday markets took their cue from history as bad earnings drove stocks sharply lower erasing the week's gains of approximately 2%.   Next week's market-moving events: Given the absence of major economic news earnings will drive market direction early in the week. Monday’s reports by Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) and Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) will kick things off followed by a heavy reporting day on Tuesday (Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) 3M (NYSE:MMM) DuPont (NYSE:DFT) Boeing (NYSE:BA) UPS (NYSE:UPS) and Xerox (NYSE:XRX) are among widely owned stocks reporting). Moreover 216 companies will report earnings on Thursday including Apple ...