Monday, February 2, 2026 at 6:08 PM
For a second time in five months, work has stopped at the federal government’s primary economic-statistics agency.
The January jobs report will now be published on Wednesday, Feb. 11. The January consumer-price index will now appear on Friday, Feb. 13.
Stocks edged higher ahead of this week’s batch of corporate earnings. The Dow industrials rose 0.6%.
Prices have a habit of spiking in January. This year, tariffs might be a reason, but a likelier culprit is more esoteric.
Countless private firms offer a read on the job market, consumers and the economy, but they can’t replace official government statistics.
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