Shares sink as efforts to avert gov’t shutdown fail

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The U.S. fairness markets at the moment are open. The Russell 2000 (+0.04%) leads in early buying and selling, adopted by Dow (-0.04%), Nasdaq (-0.05%), and S&P 500 (-0.08%). In whole, three of the 4 indexes are within the crimson amid the backdrop of an anticipated gov’t shutdown, which might start after midnight tonight if there is no such thing as a shock settlement within the coming hours.

Ultimately look, all 4 U.S. fairness benchmarks are buying and selling to the draw back in futures buying and selling.

Listed below are a handful of tales which can be making headlines this morning:

Exxon  (XOM)  to chop 2,000 jobs as a part of long-term restructuring

New tariffs on timber and lumber (25%), overseas movies (100%), and sure prescription drugs (100%) will go into impact tonight after midnight

EchoStar SATS is reportedly trying to promote a few of its $10 billion in AWS-3 wi-fi spectrum to Verizon Communications  (VZ)

Spotify  (SPOT)  CEO Daniel Ek will shift into the position of govt chairman; Gustav Soderstrom and Alex Norstrom will take over the corporate as co-CEOs

On Holding ONON COO Sam Wenger will step down after eight years

Boeing  (BA)  is reportedly beginning work on a successor to its beleaguered 737 MAX jet, per WSJ

Container freight costs have hit a two-year low as a result of weaker U.S. demand

Good morning. It is the final day of the third quarter. It is also wanting more and more positive to be the final day that the U.S. authorities will function as common, at the least for just a few days, as funding will expire simply after midnight tonight. With that, the federal government will shut down.

It will be the twenty first shutdown since FY 1977 and the primary shutdown since 2019, per Financial institution of America. At this stage, we do not know at this level how lengthy the federal government shutdown may final, however the common one has lasted eight days.

We do know that the longer it lasts, the extra it stands to delay the discharge of key financial information. And with the Fed’s October coverage assembly simply weeks away, that is prone to invite more and more dovish bets.

That may not be economically impactful by itself, however we’ll additionally doubtless see hundreds of presidency staff furloughed through the shutdown, plus an unknown quantity of jobs which could be completely axed as a part of mass layoffs, inviting much more dovishness from the central financial institution.

In anticipation of the shutdown tonight, longer-dated Treasurys have seen a bounce in worth; shares, the greenback, and gold have declined.

Here is the roundup of what we have now on deck as we speak:

With the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) confirming that the federal government shutdown will delay the discharge of key financial information, as we speak’s JOLTS report could be the final ‘on time’ report that we see for awhile.

Within the meantime, we’ll proceed getting information from personal corporations and regional Fed banks, plus commentary from Fed leaders; a lot as we’ll as we speak. S&P/Case-Shiller, Chicago PMI, and the Convention Board’s Client Confidence studies are all out this morning.

Right here is the entire information and occasions on deck for as we speak:

Whereas the federal government shutdown may very well be entrance and middle within the dialog for a time frame, it is doubtless that buyers will flip their consideration to Q3 earnings within the subsequent few weeks.

Earlier than we bounce to that, we do have just a few extra studies as we speak, although. On the ultimate day of the third quarter, we have now studies from Nike  (NKE) , Paychex  (PAYX) , Lamb Weston LW, and United Pure Meals  (UNFI) .

Listed below are the studies >$1 billion market cap, per Nasdaq:

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