GLOBAL MARKETS- No payrolls, no problem as Wall Street extends run of highs

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World stocks were on course for a solid weekly gain and more record highs as the seemingly unstoppable rally in tech shares and expectations of lower U.S. interest rates helped to offset uncertainty surrounding the U.S. government shutdown. Investors have mostly shrugged off the shutdown, the 15th since 1981, but on Friday it meant traders weren't getting what is probably the single most-watched piece of market-moving economic data: monthly U.S. payrolls figures. Wall Street did not seem bothered, with all three major stock indexes hitting record highs, pushing MSCI's main 47-country index of world shares up 0.4%, while Europe cruised...