Greetings one and all

A special welcome to all our readers in France. Our thoughts are with you and the families of those who have tragically lost their lives in the Paris atrocities.

Markets will continue to function, albeit in sad and reflective mode, as European trading gets underway and the week-end will have given traders opportunity to make a more considered judgement

Data wise it's the usual thin Monday offering but we have final Eurozone CPI for October with US NY Empire State mftg index and Canadian mftg sales later

ECB pres Mario Draghi is due to speak at 10.15 GMT and I will try and dig out a bit more info on that prior

As always I wish you a good session in these sad and uncertain times

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