Source: Sharecast
In the background, investors will also be keeping tabs on the news-flow out of Capitol Hill regarding prospects for a deal on a new fiscal stimulus package.
They will also be digesting news that European Union heads of state clinched a deal at their two-day summit to unblock the seven-year €1.1trn budget and €750bn of Covid-19 aid.
Also due out are final prints for German and Spanish consumer prices in November as well as for Italian industrial production in October.
No major economic releases are scheduled in the UK.
For Rolls Royce's third quarter, Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets UK, expects investors' focus to be on the rate of cash burn, given the hit from Covid-19 to the global aerospace sector.
Nevertheless, "on a longer-term basis, the outlook is probably somewhat brighter."
Hewson also pointed out recently the importance for the company's longer-term prospects from its involvement in a consortium to build 16 miniature nuclear plants and from its work on a prototype jet engine which uses 100% sustainable aviation fuel.
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