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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Stock market futures help broadly steady ahead of a shortened Christmas Eve trading session Monday, with Alcoa Inc. among the stocks in focus after it agreed to sell its packaging and consumer businesses.
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AFP - Europe's main stock markets drifted upwards on Monday, with Frankfurt shut for the Christmas holidays, while London and Paris were set for an early lunchtime finish.
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Reuters - Wall Street was set for a flat start on Monday in a shortened Christmas Eve trading session after an explosive rally on Friday.
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Today we're casting our gaze further and covering a fortnight. It's Christmas Eve and the London Stock Exchange will close early, while many other international markets are closed completely. These include Japan, where they are marking the Emperor's birthday, which fell yesterday, with a public holiday. The NYSE, which is open today, will take a day off tomorrow, along with the LSE and almost every other major world market ? the exception is that Japan returns to work.