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The third-quarter earnings season, which kicks off in earnest next week, is likely to have a greater impact on markets in the absence of major economic data releases, investors say.

“Punch” could easily have become a bog of pieties and earnest, uplifting lessons about the necessity of forgiveness.

Instead, many are shifting their focus to the third-quarter earnings season that is about to kick off in earnest.

That same conundrum is being faced by companies across the U.S.—and earnings season, which starts in earnest later this week, will reveal how Corporate America is trying to solve it.

By October, they’d smoothed out the rough edges and Sparks began writing in earnest.