Senate leaders are nearing completion on a deal to stave off a debt default and avert a self-inflicted political calamity that would shred US credibility and rock the global economy.

Signs of hope emerged on Monday, three days before a deadline to raise the US government's borrowing limit and as a partial government shutdown was on the cusp of entering its third week.

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