U.S. Stocks Fall as Investors Watch for Gains on Budget Impasse

... the shutdown extends beyond a week, two weeks," said Stephen Stanley, chief economist at Pierpont Securities LLC in Stamford, Connecticut, whose estimate matched the survey median. "If it's a couple of days or even a week it's something that we'll ...

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