Gold moves closer to $4,000 on US shutdown and French crisis
Gold clinched a fresh record — pushing closer to $4,000 an ounce — as the US government shutdown and a political crisis in France injected more uncertainty into financial markets. Bullion rose to $3,977.44 an ounce after surging 1.9 per cent on Monday. The suspension in federal operations that’s now stretching into a second week…
