Blinken: US secretary of state Antony Blinken will depart for a multi-day visit to the Middle East, where he will stop in Israel and other nations as the US continues diplomatic consultations amid the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
Walgreens Boots: The pharmacy group will report its latest quarterly earnings, which analysts expect will show a swing to profitability in the three months to November after opioid-related settlements dragged it to a loss a year earlier.
ConAgra Brands: Earnings and sales at the consumer packaged foods company are projected to have declined to 68 cents a share on revenue of $3.2bn in the September-November period.
Jobless claims: New applications for US state unemployment aid are predicted to have edged down slightly to 216,000 last week from 218,000 in the prior seven-day period.
US jobs: The ADP employment report is anticipated to show that the US added 115,000 private sector jobs in December, up from 103,000 in November.
