By Marc Jones

LONDON (Reuters) -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 offset U.S. government shutdown uncertainty.

Investors have mostly shrugged off the shutdown, the 15th since 1981, but on Friday it meant traders weren’t getting probably the single most-watched piece of market-moving economic data – monthly U.S. payrolls figures.

MSCI’s main 47-country index of world shares didn’t seem bothered, with record-high Wall Street opening higher yet again and Europe cruising towards its best week since April. [.N][.EU]

Euro zone services sector PMIs had helped the euro tick up too as they accelerated to an eight-month high thanks to moderate growth in G

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