KEY TAKEAWAYS:

October jobs report delayed due to 43-day federal shutdown.

Household survey data unavailable; only employer job creation numbers collected.

November jobs report now scheduled for Dec. 16 release.

Fed policymakers face uncertainty ahead of December rate decision.

The Labor Department said Wednesday that it will not be releasing a full jobs report for October because the 43-day federal government shutdown meant it couldn’t calculate the unemployment rate and some other key numbers.

Instead, it will release some of the October jobs data — most importantly the number of jobs that employers created last month — along with the full November jobs report, now due a couple of weeks late on Dec. 16.

The department’s “employment situation” report usually comes out the

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