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Households. >> reporter: now, other government reports that are going to be delayed or at least are at risk include the consumer price index, the import/export price report, the producer price, the wholesale price report that comes out every month, retail sales and the monthly treasury statement which shows us how much the government is taking in and spending. shows us what the monthly deficits are. arthel: so, peter, does all of this have any impact on ordinary people? >> reporter: it sure does. for example, the consumer price index report, this one, the one that is delayed, would be used to ...

That doesn't happen, and how does it benefit the country and the credit rating of the country if the credit limit is increased? >> that's what's interesting about that because not only have we not opened the government with our own spending bill we have to borrow money to keep paying our bills that we already incurred and that's with the daily treasury statement we're up against it. they are shuffling funds around to get us through mid-november. some people think it will get us through the end of the month or later. what that means we'll only be taking in tax money and that will give us some o...

In the case say they will go on to appeal that. shifting our attention to business news for the day. where the markets were mostly unchanged from yesterday, however, the dow did manage to rise to a new record close. cnbc's geoff cutmore live in london with more on what to look for today. geoff, good morning. >> reporter: hey, good morning to you. and the air is getting even thinner up here. we have a negative trading day here in europe, and the futures for you are looking all in the red at this point. so, i think it's going to be hard to make too much forward progress early on in the session...