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

A brutal week for tech stocks dragged the Nasdaq Composite to its worst week since April. Investors will try turning the page in the week ahead, as the government shutdown drags on and third-quarter earnings season chugs along. Here's a closer look at the three big things on our radar. 1. Shutdown: Might we finally see an end to the longest government shutdown in American history? We're not here to make a prediction either way, but with the shutdown at the end of last week beginning to materially imperil air travel , history suggests the odds of a resolution are increasing. When air traffic controller shortages bubbled up in January 2019, causing travel disruptions at key airports like New York's LaGuardia , it didn't take long for the shutdown that began Dec. 22, 2018, to end. Nothing tur