Investors will finally get a better picture of how the Trump administration’s trade war affected US inflation in September when delayed consumer price data is released on Friday.
The ongoing government shutdown has halted official data releases, pushing back CPI data, which had been due to come out on Wednesday this week. The Federal Reserve has nevertheless called in a limited number of employees to put out the delayed data, which is scheduled for October 24, more than a week late.
Delays in official data have left investors “flying blind” amid concerns over lingering price pressures and the health of the world’s largest economy, with many instead relying on private data and Fed surveys such as the Beige Book for insight into the US economy.