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US DATA: REMINDER: Due to the continued partial US government shutdown, data to

be released by the US Department of Commerce will be delayed until the shutdown

ends, and in some cases will be postponed even longer if the data was in the

process of being prepared when the shutdown began. These include data from the

Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Commerce will release an

updated schedule after the Department's funding is renewed and not before, and

MNI will publish that calendar when it is available.

- PLEASE NOTE: The Department of Labor's funding had already been approved

through September 2019 and the Department itself and the Bureau of Labor

Statistics are unaffected by the partial shutdown. As a result, the release of

the monthly employment report on January 4 will not be impacted. Likewise, the

release of initial jobless claims data on Thursdays will not be impacted.

Upcoming data releases from the affected agencies appear below. There will be no

release of these data on any of the MNI platforms, including Alpha Flash (AF) as

the government's websites also do not function during a shutdown.