Analysis-US government shutdown may prompt first-ever workaround for inflation-protected bonds

By Davide Barbuscia and Anirban Sen NEW YORK (Reuters) -With the U.S. government shutdown threatening to freeze October’s inflation report, the Treasury is expected to deploy a workaround to compute the index underpinning the $2.1 trillion market for inflation-protected bonds for the first time since their 1997 launch, a move that may cause pricing quirks as traders adjust their calculations. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has said it has halted all data collection and publishing during the shutdown, apa ...