Gold forecast to lose lustre as safe bet in times of uncertainty as US crisis set to end.
Britain's Royal Mail's shares leap 36% in on their London trading debut.
Democrats refuse to buy Republican proposal for short-term extension of Treasury's borrowing powers as it is not tied to plan to re-finance government.
Libyan Prime Minister was released after being seized by gunmen at his Tripoli hotel.
President Barack Obama is due to meet Republicans on 10 October.
Officials still said that there was no way to avoid an eventual default if debt limit is not raised.
Uighur activists claim arrests are part of crackdown on their ethnic group in northwestern Muslim region of Xinjiang
Taliban tells Americans not to trust US politicians, who 'suck blood of own their people'.
BoJ Deputy Governor Hiroshi Nakaso said US economy is facing "greatest uncertainty" due to political impasse.
US president calls on Republicans to end government shutdown and lift debt ceiling before any negotiations on fiscal issues.
The International Monetary Fund also warns over the impact from the US government shutdown
US' biggest foreign creditor tells US Congress to resolve the political impasse over the budget for 2014
Investors fear foreigners will reduce investments in India and drag markets down.
350,000 furloughed US government employees ordered to report to work on 7 October.
Offices enforcing curbs on Iran stretched for resources due to shutdown.
JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America chiefs meet Obama as he blames Republicans for impasse.
Experts back ECB president view that Washington budget shutdown will be short-lived and solution will be found.
Federation of Small Businesses' chairman Mike Cherry says the government must strike a balance between "boosting consumer spending and economic growth".
But market strategist says first shutdown in 17 years couldn't come at more difficult time for the Federal Reserve
American journalist Rob Kall accuses Obama and NSA executives of mismanaging agency.
Lalu Prasad Yadav, a former central minister whose career was a case study for students at Harvard University, is convicted of corruption by an Indian court.
Only two arrests as thousands line streets of Manchester to protests against austerity and NHS changes.