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MARKET VIEW
🟢FTSE futures lost 3 points to 9,529.5, German DAX futures traded down 6 points to 24,504 while Euro STOXX 50 futures traded flat at 5666, by 0520 GMT.

🟢Japanese stocks surged more than 4% to an all-time high while the yen skidded after fiscal and monetary dove Sanae Takaichi was elected as leader of the ruling party, putting her on course to become the nation's first female prime minister.

🟢Oil prices rose around 1.5% after OPEC+ announced a more modest monthly increase in production than expected, tempering some concerns about supply additions, though analysts expect near-term gains to be capped by a soft demand outlook.

GLOBAL TOP NEWS
🟢Japan's ruling party picked hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi as its head on Saturday, putting her on course to become the country's first female prime minister in a move set to jolt investors and neighbours.

🟢French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu on Sunday named Roland Lescure, a close ally of President Emmanuel Macron, as finance minister in a new government that political rivals threatened to topple quickly if it failed to break with past Macron policies.

🟢The Trump administration will start mass layoffs of federal workers if President Donald Trump decides negotiations with congressional Democrats to end a partial government shutdown are "absolutely going nowhere," a senior White House official said on Sunday.