Tariffs and uncertainty were already making the economy hard to read. The loss of government data during the shutdown has made the situation much worse.
Food bank volunteers distributed donations on Saturday to federal workers in Beltsville, Md. Many government employees missed their first full paycheck this week.
The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter point for the second time this year, but the probability of a reduction at its next meeting fell after Jerome Powell, the central bank’s chair, said that officials held “strongly differing views.”
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