The Big Take
Market-Moving Data Under Threat as Trump Returns to Washington
US agencies that produce vital economic data are struggling in the face of shrinking budgets.
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US economic indicators can move global markets by trillions of dollars at a time. The agencies that collect and publish those statistics have been pleading for an extra few million, to maintain the integrity of the financial world’s most important numbers.
Now they face an even tougher fight to get it, as Donald Trump heads back to Washington with a plan to slash the federal bureaucracy.