By way of a storm of data coming up at 13.30 gmt. Just so the yanks can get off early for the holidays they’ve brought forward a raft of data for the bottom of the hour.

US data

US data 13.30 gmt

Forget jobless claims, unless there’s something really scary. Durable goods is likely to be mover but more attention may come on the PCE data for another clue on whether interest rate rises might creep closer.

Adam’s got a preview of the durables data here