Gold clinched a fresh record just below $4,000 an ounce as the US shutdown dragged on and a wobble in tech stocks reinforced investor appetite for other assets.

The Elon Musk-backed artificial intelligence startup xAI is raising more financing than initially planned — including an equity investment from Nvidia Corp. — to bring its ongoing funding round to $20 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss the rise of Dell’s shares after the company nearly doubled its growth estimates for sales and profit through to fiscal year 2030. Plus, CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator talks about the company’s latest acquisition and weighs in on the wave of compute deals. And, Tesla is expected to announce a new cheaper version of its Model Y. (Source: Bloomberg)

Emerging-market currencies retreated on Tuesday, dragged down by the Hungarian forint, with investors turning to haven assets as the US government shutdown enters its seventh day.

Salesforce Inc. told customers Tuesday that it won’t pay a ransom demand from a hacker who claimed to have stolen a large amount of client data and threatened to publish it, according to an email seen by Bloomberg News.

Asian stocks are set for a mixed open after Wall Street shares took a breather from notching a series of all-time highs.

Colombian inflation accelerated to a seven-month high, bolstering the case of the majority on the central bank’s board who are resisting political pressure to cut interest rates.

Oil edged higher after a mixed US inventories report, with traders also focused on the broader outlook for supply as OPEC+ presses on with output increases and American production expands.

New Fortress Energy has reached a tentative deal that may allow it to deliver liquefied natural gas to its terminal in Puerto Rico after it hammered out an agreement with tugboat operators, local media reported.

Vietnam was upgraded to emerging-market status by FTSE Russell, potentially unlocking billions of dollars more in capital inflows.