Chinese growth and corporate earnings in the United States and Europe, including results from the big-hitting FAANGs, will give markets plenty to digest in the week ahead, while Turkey's central bank is set to meet after another midnight reshuffle.
As Europe's third quarter reporting season kicks into gear, investors are scrutinising company results for any signs that supply chain strains, labour shortages and surging energy prices are starting to undermine profits.
When a Swedish court ordered the country's biggest cement maker to stop mining limestone by its huge factory on the windswept island of Gotland to prevent pollution, ecologists cheered.
Saudi Aramco has agreed to supply additional crude to at least two North Asian buyers in November, while meeting full contractual volumes for three others, sources with knowledge of the matter said on Monday.
Power shortages in Europe and record high electricity prices could lead to output cuts of key materials such as silicon used to make solar panels, aluminium alloys for the auto industry and semiconductors.