{"id":181069,"date":"2025-09-30T22:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/181069\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T22:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:36:07","slug":"what-a-shutdown-may-mean-for-markets-evening-briefing-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/181069\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Shutdown May Mean for Markets: Evening Briefing Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US government is hurtling toward a shutdown as Democrats seek to use what little power they have to force Republicans to undo significant cuts to healthcare made by Donald Trump\u2019s tax-and-spend bill. The standoff seemed to harden on Tuesday as the deadline drew near. While last-minute deals are always possible, what does a shutdown mean for investors, and what are the implications for US financial markets<\/a>?<\/p>\n

The main macro implications lie in the labor market and predictions for the path of interest rates. The Trump administration is threatening mass firings<\/a> of federal workers, which if true would add to the tens of thousands of people it already fired this year and send jobless claims rising even higher in a troubled job market. As for those other markets, a shutdown that lasts could finally stick a pin in the extended bull run, which as in previous years seems untethered to reality. Here\u2019s what to watch for<\/a> if that shutdown reality bites. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US government is hurtling toward a shutdown as Democrats seek to use what little power they have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[160,91662,45,49,48,1007,10081,14208,893,6680,65556,1571,100,32757],"class_list":["post-181069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-americas","tag-briefing","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-construction","tag-consumer-confidence","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-government","tag-immigration","tag-job-openings","tag-labor","tag-markets","tag-public-investment-fund"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}