U.S. Economic Data Delayed This Week Amid Shutdown

VIENNA (DTN) — U.S. economic data scheduled for this week will be rescheduled or not be publish as the federal government shutdown entered its fourteenth day.

Consumer Price Index data for September from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, originally scheduled for release Wednesday (10/15), has been postponed to Friday October 24.

BLS announced on its website that September CPI data will be the only publication released while the shutdown is ongoing, saying “No other releases will be rescheduled or produced until the resumption of regular government services”.

U.S. retail sales data for September from the U.S. Census Bureau, and U.S. industrial production data from the Federal Reserve, originally scheduled for Thursday (10/16) and Friday release, respectively, will also not be published this week.

The federal government went into shutdown after the U.S. Congress failed to pass appropriations bills or a continuing resolution to fund government agencies before the start of the new fiscal year on October 1.