Reuters reporting a few comments as the talks pause 22 Jan

  • Democrat Manchin says lawmakers still in stalemate

Nothing bipartisan about the political tone of those two comments.

More:

  • Democrat Peters says progress has been made
  • hopeful for resolution on shutdown in a "few hours"
  • still need more clarity from leadership

Don't worry. I'm sure His Twitterness will be tweeting his thoughts to you in due course.

Elsewhere a govt spokesman says US EIA will be able to operate "for a short period of time" during shutdown.

Meanwhile USD mostly unfazed by it all. USDJPY 110.83 GBPUSD 1.3923 EURUSDF 1.2242 USDCHF 0.9612