* An advance read on third-quarter gross domestic product will be released at 8:30 a.m. (1230 GMT) and is seen showing economic growth slowed to 3 percent from 4.6 percent in the second quarter. The level of growth, which is expected to have been boosted by business spending, will be especially scrutinized a day after the Federal Reserve ended its stimulative bond-buying program. * Without quantitative easing – which fueled market gains over recent years, though its end was widely expected – investors are looking to when the central bank will begin raising interest rates.