- US equity futures edged higher while the dollar was little changed as trading resumed after the Christmas holiday amid investor expectations for earlier and deep interest rate cuts next year.
- Stocks in Asia were mixed in a thin trading session, with markets such as Hong Kong, New Zealand, and Australia closed, as well as European markets.
- The session kicked off the start of the "Santa Claus rally," a seasonal trend in which equities tend to climb into the first few days of the new year. The S&P 500 notched an eight-week winning streak on Friday - the longest in more than five years - on signs price pressures in the US were easing. Ten-year US Treasury yields fell two basis points to 3.88%.
- Apple and Google to be subject to new Japan monopoly rules - Nikkei.
