Economic Week Ahead: October 20-24

We're entering yet another week of limited visibility on the economy thanks to the government shutdown. This leaves markets attempting to fill the statistical void with private surveys, comments from Federal Reserve officials, and the odd corporate report to gauge the balance of economic risks.

This gives added weight to October's flash purchasing managers' index data (Fri) for both manufacturing and services. Just as important will be the delayed release of September's CPI (Fri).