With the reopening of the Federal government, we will begin to see some of the delayed data releases from the past two weeks, including the September Employment report on Tuesday. Other regularly scheduled data releases may be delayed. Statistical agencies are expected to update schedules and indicate how they plan to deal with disruptions in their normal data collection processes during the month of October. As we go to press, we have no official confirmation from Census but believe that the September retail sales figures may also be available next week. September employment indicators point to 160K nonfarm payroll ... (full story)