BlockBeats News, October 10th. According to The New York Times, a U.S. government official stated that despite the federal government shutdown, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is still preparing to release the CPI data for September. The specific release time is not yet clear, but it is almost certainly not the original date of October 15th. The agency had halted all operations during the funding hiatus, thus failing to release the nonfarm payroll report last week as planned.
According to the government source, the bureau has begun recalling some employees to work to complete the report preparation. This decision to release the data appears to be related to the annual Social Security cost-of-living adjustment process. The basis for this adjustment is the third-quarter inflation data, so the delayed release of September price data may result in a delay in the announcement of the cost-of-living adjustment. According to other foreign media reports, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics plans to release the September CPI data by the end of this month.
