The government shutdown pushed the report’s release date back by more than six weeks.

Due to the government shutdown, some pieces of the calculation puzzle for corporate earnings and outlook reports are missing.

Because of the government shutdown, economic data is harder to come by.

There are other reports, but they lack the breadth and depth of the one the Bureau of Labor Statistics produces.

Beyond government reports on inflation and jobs, it examines bank and payment processor data along with factory output, credit and rents.

We’re now five days into the partial government shutdown. While the Senate is expected to reconvene Thursday and resume negotiations over how to end the shutdown, odds are that it’ll continue into January. The impasse is already cutting into the supply of something that is essential to just about every market out there: federal economic data. […]