• For the first time in a while I am seeing some good offerings being lifted by buyers in Monitise.

• I wanted to wish all of our subscribers, editors, contributors and TST management the warmest Holiday Greetings and a very Merry Christmas.

• Thanks for all the great Surprise suggestions (in comments below).

A few of them are outstanding and I am considering including them in some way on my List.

Stay tuned.

• Surprise me in the comments section.

I am about done with my Surprise List (though I have a lot of editing ahead of me) -- how about some love from subscribers?

In the comments section, I would love to see a couple of "probable improbables" that I might incorporate in my Surprise List.

• I am continually watching high yield.

Today the SPDR Barclays High Yield Bond ETF (JNK) and the iShares iBoxx High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (HYG) are modestly lower.

• Attachments may be improving.

The only long position I have recently been steadily adding to has been Monitise (MONIF).

As expected, tax selling (and maybe the final sales of Visa's holdings) have weighed on the shares.

In the meantime, I am getting some anecdotal readings that attachments (read: subscriptions) might be improving relative to my low expectations.

I will keep you all up to date as I learn more.

• China and India under pressure.

Futures are mixed to slightly higher and global equity markets are mixed.

I would mention that China (-5%) and India (-2%) markets have had been pressured in the last 48 hours. (I don't believe I have heard a word of this in the media).

• Making my list, checking it twice.

I am trying to put together my Surprises for 2015 list today (and over the balance of the week), so, given the half day, I plan to make my  posts concise this morning.