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Congress is heeding his call for an urgent and large stimulus package, after his warning that the economy could slip further into recession and unemployment could climb to double digits."We're now turning toward this fiscal stimulus package as potentially our last hope and savior because there's no indication that monetary policy can any longer break the cycle," said Paul Mendelsohn, chief investment strategist at Windham Financial Services.Wall Street started 2009 on a sour note, logging its worst week since late November jeff beck wired . Global heavyweights Wal-Mart Stores Inc(WMT.N), Intel Corp (INTC.O) and Chevron (CVX.N) all lowered their earnings estimates, heightening fears of the deepening recession amid expectations earnings will fall.The focal point was a government report released on Friday that showed the U.S jeef beck . jobless rate jumped to 7.2 percent, its highest level in nearly 16 years.The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI ended down 143.28 points, or 1.64 percent, to 8,599.18 jeff beck "you know what i mean . The Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX slid 19.38 points, or 2.13 percent, to 890.35 clapton beck . The Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC fell 45.42 points, or 2.81 percent, to 1,571.59.Friday's unemployment data served as a "stark reminder" of the need to move quickly on the massive economic package, Obama said on Friday.Although there is broad consensus among Democrats and Republicans that bold steps are required to address the economy's struggles, some lawmakers have expressed concerns that the stimulus bill would widen the already soaring U.S.

budget deficit.In coming days, Wall Street will eye the unfolding drama surrounding the stimulus bill, and parse his statements for specific details and figures about his proposed plan, which would combine tax cuts with aid to states and public works projects."The kind of details would be what is the split between tax cuts and spending?" said John Praveen, chief investment strategist at Prudential International Investments in Newark, New Jersey . "How soon will it begin to have an impact?"Those details "are exactly what I think he has to clarify," said Carl Birkelbach, head of Birkelbach Management in Chicago wired beck . "He may do that in the next week and that will help."Birkelbach said he expected another uptick in stocks next week due in part on rising optimism about Obama's efforts to jumpstart the world's largest economy.There is precedent for that -- Wall Street enjoyed its biggest Election Day rally ever when Obama won the presidency on November 4 yardbirds beck . And in the week before his election, stocks rallied as well.Stocks have made strides since scraping their November 20 low with the broad S&P 500 index up roughly 20 percent.Still, year-to-date the Dow is down more than 2 percent, while the broad S&P 500 is off 1.4 percent and the Nasdaq is 0.3 percent lower . These figures point to the fact that highlights the wobbly nature of the U.S. economy.Another set of preannouncements next week and reams of expected economic data will likely add to anxieties about the market, which is down nearly 43 percent since its October 2007 record high.Alcoa and Intel will report earnings next week, but investors will be watching out for fresh earnings revisions, in particular from big banks that will begin posting earnings the week after.Economic data on tap for next week includes the latest reading of the Producer Price Index on Thursday and the Consumer Price Index on Friday, which investors-- rattled by fears of deflation-- will watch closely.After major retailers posted disappointing sales this week, the government's report on December retail sales is expected to show a decline of 1.2 percent during one of the worst holiday shopping seasons in recent memory.Other key economic indicators are industrial production figures, consumer sentiment data and the Federal Reserve's beige book, a series of anecdotes illustrating the state the U.S. economy."We know the economy is very, very bad and the unemployment numbers are going to be bad," said Praveen.But if figures are well below expectations, "it creates more uncertainty about how deep the recession is going to be," he said."It unleashes a whole new set of uncertainties."(Additional reporting by Ellis Mnyandu)(Editing by Diane Craft)(The Stocks Outlook column appears every Sunday.