The Trump administration plans to restrict the news media's ability to prepare advance stories on sensitive U.S. economic data such as inflation and employment, Bloomberg reports.
"Lockups" lasting 30 to 60 minutes are currently hosted in Washington for major reports, where journalists receive data in a secure room and transmit them when connections are restored at release time.
The change would mark the biggest change in decades in how critical market-moving information is distributed to investors and the public.