Market Review - Spot gold prices have surpassed $3840 per ounce, reaching a new high [6] - On September 29, US major stock indices experienced slight gains, with the Dow Jones up 0.15% at 46316.07 points, S&P 500 up 0.26% at 6661.21 points, and Nasdaq up 0.48% at 22591.15 points [6] - European stock indices also saw minor increases, with Germany's DAX up 0.02% at 23745.06 points, France's CAC40 up 0.13% at 7880.87 points, and the UK's FTSE 100 up 0.16% at 9299.84 points [6] International Macro - US President Trump met with congressional leaders on September 29 to discuss avoiding a government shutdown, with significant disagreements noted by Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer [7] - The US federal government is set to run out of funding by midnight on September 30, risking a government shutdown if no agreement is reached on funding legislation [7] - The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has announced that it will halt data collection and not release planned reports, including the monthly non-farm payroll report, if funding is interrupted [7] Corporate News - On September 29, DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp model was officially released and open-sourced on the Hugging Face platform, introducing a sparse attention mechanism for improved efficiency in training and inference of long texts [8] - OpenAI plans to release the new Sora 2 video generator as a standalone application, which may generate videos containing copyrighted content unless rights holders opt out [8] Institutional Views - Goldman Sachs analysts predict that global stock markets are likely to continue rising until the end of the year, supported by strong US economic performance and favorable stock valuations [9] - The team led by Christian Mueller-Glissmann has upgraded the global stock market allocation rating to "overweight" for the next three months, suggesting that stocks typically perform well in the later stages of economic slowdown with strong policy support [9]