Today, all eyes are on the Commerce Department’s initial estimate of third-quarter gross domestic product, set to be released in a couple of hours. The GDP report was delayed by two months due to the government shutdown. Notably, the agency will not release third-quarter GDP in its usual sequence of three successive estimates and will instead publish only two readings. Economists, on average, forecast that U.S. GDP growth will stand at +3.3% q/q in the third quarter, underpinned by robust consumer spending ...