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✅ Main takeaway:
Key takeaways
- The federal government shutdown has put a freeze on economic data releases, and agencies are still playing catch-up.
- While a few reports have been rescheduled, some have also been consolidated or cancelled. Other new release dates are still expected for several key reports for September, October and November.
The government shutdown ended three weeks ago, and statistical agencies are working to catch up on missed economic releases.
After being closed for 43 days, federal offices that track inflation, employment and economic growth fell behind schedule in many reports, but are starting to catch up.
This week we will see inflation data for September, which was scheduled to be published in October. There are many other unreleased reports that agencies such as the Census Bureau, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and Bureau of Labor Statistics still need to issue, cancel, or merge.
Why is this important?
Delayed economic reports can distort expectations for inflation, jobs and growth, complicating decisions for investors, businesses and policymakers. Understanding the new table helps readers interpret upcoming market-moving data.
Here are some of the new release dates and schedule changes announced so far:
- December 3: September Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization (Originally scheduled for release on October 17)
- December 5: September Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Price Index, Personal Income and Expenditures(Originally scheduled for October 31)
- December 9: Job Opportunity and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) in September and October(Originally scheduled for November 4 and December 2)
- December 10: Labor cost index for the third quarter (Originally scheduled for October 31)
- December 16: November US employment report, including October payrolls (Scheduled for November 7 and December 5, but the October household survey has been cancelled)
- December 18: November Consumer Price Index (CPI), including a subset of the October report (Originally scheduled for release on November 13 and December 10)
- December 23: Third quarter GDP, preliminary estimate (The advance GDP estimate scheduled for October 30 has been canceled. The BLS will postpone the subsequent third-quarter GDP estimate originally scheduled for December 19.)
- December 23: October and November industrial production and capacity utilization (Originally scheduled for release on November 18 and December 16)
Here are some reports that still need to be rescheduled:
- Housing begins in September (Originally scheduled for release on October 17; October and November reports have also not yet been rescheduled)
- New Home Sales for September (It was scheduled to be released on October 24; The October and November reports have not yet been rescheduled.)
- September advanced reports on trade deficit, wholesale inventories and retail inventories (It was scheduled to be released on October 29; The October and November reports have not yet been rescheduled.)
- September US Trade Deficit (originally scheduled for November 4; The October and November reports have not yet been rescheduled.)
- Business inventories for September (Originally scheduled for release in November; The October report has not yet been rescheduled.)
- October retail sales (Originally scheduled for release in November; The November report has not yet been rescheduled.)
- October Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index, Personal Income and Expenditures (Originally scheduled for November 26; The November report has not yet been rescheduled.)
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