The government shutdown delayed the jobs report and may postpone other key economic data. Here is what economists are looking at instead.

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

Earlier this month, Jerome Powell stressed how crucial each month is: “We're in a meeting-by-meeting situation, and we’re going to be looking at the data."

The government shutdown delayed the jobs report and may postpone other key economic data. Here is what economists are looking at instead.

Data interruption comes at a particularly uncertain time as policymakers need more data now than less.