Service Alert: The Market Preview Podcast will be on hiatus from 17-Dec through 2-Jan. The comment will resume publication on 3-Jan-2022 US futures are indicating a higher open as of 04:45 ET. Again not much new to digest overnight. European equity markets opened lower, following overnight weakness in Asia. Markets said to be focusing on this morning's US CPI release with consensus looking for the biggest annual increase since Nov-1982. Companies mentioned: Evergrande, Kaisa, Oracle (NYSE:ORCL), Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO)