Financial bookies see FTSE opening down as much as -0.5%, DAX down as much as -0.4% and CAC 40 down as much as -0.5%.

EUR/USD sits at 1.2827.

Talk of buy orders clustered down at 1.2800/10 ahead of barrier option interest at 1.2800.

Is it too much to ask for a ‘pop goes the weasel’ headline on a Monday morning?

After all it is Fireworks Night tonight

:)