{"id":100141,"date":"2025-10-25T08:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T08:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/100141\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T08:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T08:42:07","slug":"federal-government-shutdown-hampers-key-economic-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/100141\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Government Shutdown Hampers Key Economic Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> (<a style=\"color:black\" href=\"https:\/\/menafn.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MENAFN<\/a>) The ongoing federal government shutdown is preventing the Federal Reserve from accessing crucial economic information ahead of its monetary policy meeting next week. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the ambiguity, analysts anticipate a 25-basis-point reduction in interest rates.<\/p>\n<p>The shutdown, initiated on Oct. 1 over a budget impasse in Congress, has now reached its 25th day, interrupting the regular flow of essential economic statistics.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has been unable to publish weekly unemployment claims or the nonfarm payroll report originally scheduled for Oct. 3.<\/p>\n<p>The BLS, which also manages inflation metrics, postponed the release of last week\u2019s Producer Price Index (PPI) report and issued the consumer inflation figures only late Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest data, the US Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 0.3% month-over-month and 3% year-over-year in September, falling short of projections. <\/p>\n<p>Core inflation, which excludes fluctuating energy and food costs, also underperformed, rising 0.2% monthly and 3% annually.<\/p>\n<p>White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt emphasized that inflation results were lower than anticipated due to US President Donald Trump&#8217;s economic policies. <\/p>\n<p>She stated, &#8220;Democrats choosing to keep the government closed will likely result in no October inflation report, which will leave businesses, markets, families, and the Federal Reserve in disarray.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color:black\" href=\"https:\/\/menafn.com\/1110246067\/Federal-Government-Shutdown-Hampers-Key-Economic-Data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>MENAFN25102025000045017167ID1110246067<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<p> Legal Disclaimer:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/menafn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MENAFN<\/a> provides the<br \/>\n              information \u201cas is\u201d without warranty of any kind. We do not accept<br \/>\n              any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images,<br \/>\n              videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information<br \/>\n              contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright<br \/>\n              issues related to this article, kindly contact the provider above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(MENAFN) The ongoing federal government shutdown is preventing the Federal Reserve from accessing crucial economic information ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,5261,3105,10668,219,2174,14051,266,73226,1943,111,139,69,2919,7538,5262],"class_list":["post-100141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-currency","tag-data","tag-economic","tag-economy","tag-exchange","tag-federal","tag-government","tag-hampers","tag-inflation","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-recession","tag-shutdown","tag-us-dollar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}