/DEBT LIMIT: MNI's John Shaw in an exclusive.....>

US: /DEBT LIMIT: MNI's John Shaw in an exclusive Main Wire analysis story said

that congressional sources tell MNI "the only thing that can avert a

market-rattling debt ceiling impasse and a shutdown of the federal government is

for a bipartisan agreement to be secured in back-channel talks between House

Speaker Paul Ryan and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi." 

- Such an accord "if cinched, would probably suspend the statutory debt ceiling

until after the November, 2018 mid-term elections and set discretionary spending

at levels for the 2018 fiscal year that both parties can live with," he said.

"The thinking is that such a Ryan-Pelosi agreement could pass both the House and

Senate and get President Donald Trump's perhaps reluctant signature." (For more

please see 1:46pm ET Main Wire story.)