FTSE100 is poised to start the week lower as Asian shares fell overnight and after the G20 meeting ended.
The UK benchmark has recovered from some early year losses and made it above the 6,000 level again, closing Friday up 83 at 6, 096.
Today, it is tipped by spreadbetters at IG to open around 56 points lower.
The weekend G20 meet finished with, according to one view at least, no firm plan for a fiscal stimulus to improve global growth, though there was a wider agreement to use all "policy tools" available.
Asian markets did not seem to react warmly. The Nikkei in Japan closed down 161 points at 16,027, while the Shanghai Composite Index is trailing 115 points at the time of writing.
In the US, the Dow Jones closed Friday 57 points lower at 16,640.
That came despite better than expected US data at the end of the week with consumer spending rising last month and inflation going higher by the most in four years. All this feeds further into the view will now raise US interest rates.
It is also causing strength in the US dollar.
On the corporate front today, investors will be eyeing 2015 results from newspaper group Trinity Mirror (LON:TRIN).
The key focus in this release will be current trading and outlook comments, particularly given the disappointing January national advertising performance reported in the recent DMGT trading update, reckons broker Numis.