Investors' focus over the next to last trading week of 2023 will shift to Asia, with the Bank of Japan and People's Bank of China both scheduled to announce policy decisions.
With little in the way of corporate updates or results due on Wednesday, the focus will be firmly on economic data – and there will be a lot of it, from the UK and overseas.
Investors' attention on Thursday will be on a spate of survey results covering conditions in the manufacturing and services sectors in the UK and euro area during the month of November.
Investors' focus over the coming week will be on the Chancellor's Autumn statement, on Tuesday, with the most recent economic data showing that he had approximately £90bn of leeway to tweak fiscal policy.