Even though they had no access to hard economic data due to the government shutdown, the Fed cut rates anyway.

Nearly two dozen days have passed since a federal agency has published an economic report. The US government’s shutdown has resulted in a blackout of critical data, further clouding an already opaque ...

The partial government shutdown may leave the Fed without its usual snapshot of the labor market at a critical moment.

If we don’t know what the quality of the data will be. Well, that’s uncertainty. That’s risky,” says Columbia finance ...

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 0.25% on Wednesday, as the ongoing government shutdown restricts the release of ...

The Federal Reserve meets on Tuesday to consider lowering interest rates amid a dearth of government economic data due to the ...

The government shutdown makes it harder to gauge how the economy is doing, and the problem is likely to worsen the longer the shutdown continues—especially when it comes to inflation.

The inflation report was delayed due to the government shutdown and the White House said there will likely be no report next month. But even before the shutdown, experts were sounding the alarm after ...

Missed economic reports by government statistical agencies have economists wondering what will happen if the data simply ...

Economists think inflation around the U.S. continued to climb in September, edging farther away from the Fed's 2% annual target.

A close observer of the economy might be tempted to ask, “What is going on?” The stock market continues to do well (subject ...