WRAPUP 1-U.S. Senate leader sees chance for breaking fiscal
impasse  Sun Oct 13, 2013 7:37pm EDT  * Thursday debt ceiling
deadline approaching  * Reid says negotiations 'substantive'  *
Offers little concrete information  * Fight could go down to
wire  By David Lawder and Tim Reid  WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (Reuters)
- Senate negotiations to bring a boiling fiscal crisis to an end
showed signs of progress on Sunday, but there were no guarantees
that the U.S. federal government shutdown was about to end or
that a historic default would be avoided.  Friday's optimism
that a deal might be forged before financial markets opened on
Monday vanished on Saturday and the talks moved from the
acrimony of the House of Representatives to the Senate.
Negotiations that were likely to stretch into the week continued
between the Senate's top Democrat and Republican.  Underscoring
the urgency of resolving the impasse, both the Senate and House
are scheduled to be in session on Monday, even though it is the
Columbus Day federal holi