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The Breakfast Briefing: Asian Markets Were Mostly Higher Monday, European Stocks Sluggish Start
FYI: U.S. equities and bond markets will be closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, Jan. 15, meaning that the kickoff of this corporate earnings season will effectively span a long weekend.
CME Globex futures and options products across equities YMH8, +0.33% energy assets like crude oil WTCLZ8, -0.07% and bitcoin BTCF8, -2.40% will trade until 1 p.m. Eastern time on Monday.
European stocks got off to a sluggish start on Monday following two weeks of gains, with cyclical stocks among the biggest decliners, while M&A remained in focus.