As the U.S. government reopens for business, Wall Street's attention will now turn toward when critical data on employment, inflation and other economic signposts will be released.

Agencies under the departments of Labor and Commerce had not posted revised schedules as of Friday morning, but updates are expected soon.

Consensus expectations are that the September jobs report, data for which has already been collected but not processed, will be released next week, though that is not for certain.

From there, though, the uncertainty on releases casts another cloud over what has become an increasingly contentious policymaking atmosphere at the Federal Reserve — not to mention the nervous climate among investors.

"The absence of timely official numbers left the markets and the Fed operati

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