Gold and Bitcoin go through the roof as U.S. shutdown forces investors to trade in the dark

There is a 67% chance that the U.S. federal government shutdown will last longer than 10 days, according to bettors on Polymarket—and for stock traders, that will feel like an eternity. Most notes from Wall Street analysts this morning are bemoaning the lack of official macroeconomic data coming from the U.S. The U.S. departments of labor and commerce will not publish any data until the shutdown ends. That means, through Oct. 16, at least 12 data releases—including the producer price index (inflation), ...