(Updates prices throughout) * Wall Street higher, European stocks post best week since April * US shutdown means no jobs report on Friday * Gold set for seventh straight weekly gain * Yen on pace for strongest week vs dollar since May By Marc Jones and Koh Gui Qing NEW YORK/LONDON, Oct 3 (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 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 bother

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