Stock futures were sliding and gold clinched yet another all-time high early Tuesday, with investors on edge about a potential government shutdown.
Futures tracking the Dow Jones Industrial Average were down 80 points, or 0.2%. S&P 500 futures slid 0.2%, and contracts tied to the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 also fell 0.2%.
The most actively-traded gold futures contract was up 0.7% to $3,883 an ounce, having been as high as $3,899 an ounce in earlier trading. The dollar slid 0.2% against a weighted basket of its peers, and the yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note dropped 1 basis point to 4.13%.
