By Mike Dolan

LONDON (Reuters) -What matters in U.S. and global markets today

By Mike Dolan, Editor-At-Large, Finance and Markets

With Washington closed after Tuesday’s congressional impasse, markets are left in a bit of quandary about how to interpret the hiatus and which economic data to focus on if this week’s key jobs reports are furloughed along with government workers.

The only thing investors have to go on is how markets behaved during previous closures, pretty nonchalantly for the most part and explaining why buoyant Wall Street stocks ended higher within a whisker of new records again on Tuesday as the deadline loomed. But the uncertainty isn’t great at a time when domestic politics is in flux and the economy is hard to read, with the lack of key data as a result of the shutdo

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