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Bitcoin and gold prices hit new records on Sunday and Monday, fuelled by growing financial uncertainty linked to the US government shutdown, and worsened by a fresh political crisis in France.

Less than a month after his appointment, French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned on Monday, unsettling stocks and bonds in Europe's second-largest economy.

Gold prices were nearing $4,000 an ounce at the start of the week, boosted by expectations of further rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve, before re

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