India's Nifty Oil & Gas index rose 2.21% in pre-market trade.

Paris prosecutors have opened an investigation into an Oct. 31 incident in the city's 12th arrondissement where a homemade petrol bomb was thrown at a gendarme during nationwide protests. The explosion caused minor injuries to one gendarme; prosecutors are treating the case as attempted murder of a public official. Interior Minister Nunez said police faced significant violence during the demonstrations but overall order was maintained. The interior ministry reported about 320,000 people demonstrated nationwide on Oct. 31 and 779 arrests were made.

The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, reported the White House has proposed placing proceeds from Russia's natural gas sales to Europe into an escrow account to prevent the funds being used to finance the war.