Market-Moving Data Under Threat as Trump Returns to Washington

US economic indicators can move global markets by trillions of dollars at a time. The agencies that collect and publish those statistics have been pleading for an extra few million, to maintain the integrity of the financial world’s most important numbers.

Now they face an even tougher fight to get it, as Donald Trump heads back to Washington with a plan to slash the federal bureaucracy.

Well before Trump won reelection, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and its peers in Washington were sounding the alarm that they’re increasingly starved of funds, just when it’s becoming harder and costlier to collect ...