President Donald Trump has signed a bill to reopen the US government, ending the 43-day shutdown that left over a million federal workers furloughed or working without pay.
The US Senate approved a sweeping funding measure aimed at ending the 41-day government shutdown that has severely impacted federal agencies and disrupted millions of lives nationwide.
Following extended closures in 1995 and 2013, the US economy continued to grow while stock markets mainly went sideways.
After meeting top Democrats, he also said he could declare a national emergency to bypass Congress and build a US-Mexico border wall.
The paralysis triggered by the US government shutdown could have unexpected consequences, such as muddying economic statistics just as the markets are extremely reactive to any whiff of uncertainty.
