Q: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
The most jarring element of the delayed September jobs report, due out Tuesday, may be the fact that it isn’t coming on a Friday. Job growth was likely steady but unremarkable in the month heading into the government shutdown. Economists expect little change in the nation’s unemployment rate as the economy closed out the third quarter. 
  
 The 16-day shutdown shuttered most of the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, which produces the monthly snapshot, just days before the originally scheduled Oct. 4 release date. That means its team had already collected data for the September report but needed to put the finishing touches on the analysis. As a result, the September report could be the last clean gauge of the job market before most short-term effects — or longer-run damage — from the budget battles hit U.S. employers and households. 
  
 Visit WSJ.com on Tuesday at 8:30 am Eastern for live analysis of the jobs report. 
  
 How will the Fed see the latest jobs report? Submit your questions for the WSJ’s Spreecast with Jon Hilsenrath and tune in at 11 a.m. Eastern. 
  
 Jobless Rate, Payrolls and Revisions 
  
 The consensus forecast among economists, based on a Dow Jones Newswires survey, puts the unemployment rate unchanged at 7.3% in September and the payroll gain at 180,000 jobs for the month. That would be a slight (but insignificant) increase from the 169,000 jobs added in August and pretty close to the gains of the past year. The revisions could be as important as the headline figure for September. The latest figures show a gain of just 104,000 jobs in July. Downward revisions to prior months, along with a weaker-than-expected reading for September, could fuel speculation about whether businesses were growing more cautious due to interest-rate volatility, talk of war in Syria (remember that?) or the approaching Washington dysfunction. ||||| U.S. employers added just 148,000 jobs in September, suggesting the job market was weakening before a 16-day partial government shutdown. 
  
 Still, the September gain was enough to lower the unemployment rate, which comes from a separate survey. The Labor Department says the rate fell to 7.2 percent, from 7.3 percent in August and a five-year low. 
  
 The economy has added an average of 143,000 jobs a month from July through September, down from 182,000 from April through June. 
  
 Revisions to the previous two months were mixed. Employers added 193,000 jobs in August, better than the initial estimate of 169,000. But they added just 89,000 in July, the fewest in more than a year and below the previously reported 104,000. 
  
 The report was delayed 2 1/2 -week because of the shutdown. ||||| WSJ’s Sudeep Reddy offers a rundown of what market watchers should pay attention to in this particularly jobs report: 
  
 Jobless Rate, Payrolls and Revisions 
  
 The consensus forecast among economists, based on a Dow Jones Newswires survey, puts the unemployment rate unchanged at 7.3% in September and the payroll gain at 180,000 jobs for the month. That would be a slight (but insignificant) increase from the 169,000 jobs added in August and pretty close to the gains of the past year. The revisions could be as important as the headline figure for September. The latest figures show a gain of just 104,000 jobs in July. Downward revisions to prior months, along with a weaker-than-expected reading for September, could fuel speculation about whether businesses were growing more cautious due to interest-rate volatility, talk of war in Syria (remember that?) or the approaching Washington dysfunction. 
  
 For the numbers geeks among us, the team at CRT Capital Group offers this trivia: The first snapshot of September payrolls has a statistical tendency to come in lower than expected 69% of the time, with an average miss of 89,000 jobs off the consensus. For the other 31% of the time it comes in higher than expected, the average upward surprise is 54,000 jobs. 
  
 Shutdown Effects 
  
 Sorry, you’ll probably need to wait a month to see any obvious effects of the shutdown in the employment data. It’s conceivable that the run-up to the shutdown could have influenced the September data. One survey of businesses showed the shutdown and debt-ceiling fight weighing on hiring plans as early as September. A more recent survey showed executives slashing hiring expectations as well. But all of that will be tough to see in Tuesday’s data. It could take months to know whether those effectsturn out to be small and short-lived or something more meaningful driven by the recent drop in confidence. 
  
 Fed Implications 
  
 Unless the jobs report shows an extreme surprise in either direction, this isn’t a jobs report that will move the needle for the Federal Reserve’s decision at its Oct. 29-30 meeting. Officials have already signaled that the shutdown has muddied economic data too much for a data-dependent central bank to make any immediate decisions. 
  
 But Fed officials will be watching closely to assess the labor market’s development and decide whether to hint at a potential change in policy before the year is out. The latest Wall Street Journal survey of economists, conducted in the early days of the shutdown, showed most forecasters betting on a December or January reduction in the Fed’s $85 billion bond-buying program. Some traders and economists, however, already are pushing their expectations down to March. 
  
 Does ‘Jobs Tuesday’ Sound Unnatural? Yes. 
  
 The longest U.S. government shutdown on record, covering a three-week stretch from December 1995 to January 1996, delayed the jobs report by a couple of weeks. But the Labor Department still released it on a Friday: January 19, 1996. Even if the September employment data proves to be forgettable, a generation of economics reporters will never forget their first — and only, we hope — Jobs Tuesday. |||||
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The September jobs report is out today, delayed thanks to the government shutdown, and it reveals that the unemployment rate ticked down to 7.2% last month, while 148,000 jobs were added. Economists had expected the rate to hold steady at 7.3%, the Wall Street Journal notes, but they also expected more new jobs: 180,000, to be exact. The unemployment rate is a 5-year low, and Michael J. Casey at the Journal says it "seems genuine," rather than a result of people dropping out of the labor force. August's number was revised upward, from 169,000 new jobs to 193,000. But July's was revised downward, from 104,000 new jobs to 89,000—the fewest in more than a year. If you're looking for any effects the shutdown may have had on the economy, you'll likely have to wait for the October report, the Journal notes. And that one will also be delayed, by one week; it arrives on Nov. 8. But the AP notes that the number of jobs created in September suggests the market was already weakening in advance of the shutdown.