House Speaker Resigns As Mizuho Notes John Boehner Two-Step To Avoid Shutdown

The U.S. government shutdown and the much anticipated U.S. Federal Reserve rate hike have been linked together in certain hedge fund risk management discussions. During the consideration regarding a potential Fed rate hike, a background concern at times expressed publically, was the U.S. government shutdown that loomed the following week. With the rate hike concerns pushed lower on the market priority list for the moment, a government shutdown issue has been moving through Congress as anticipated by certain risk managers, but the solution pushes back the battle to December, where the odd twin risk factors could emerge together again. These…