The major European stock indexes are all up Friday morning, following a story from Bloomberg on Thursday that suggested that the European Central Bank will confirm a stimulus programme, which involves buying government bonds, in January.Here's the scorecard:
*France's CAC 40*: +1.31%
*Germany's DAX*: +1.29%
*UK's FTSE 100*: +0.61%
*Spain's IBEX*: +1.59%
*Italy's FTSE MIB*: +1.96%
Asian markets closed up. The *Nikkei* in Japan closed up 0.19%, Hong Kong's *Hang Seng* closed up 0.71%, and China's *Shanghai Composite* closed up 1.32% after a choppy session.
US stock futures are up too: the *Dow *is 27 points higher ahead of the open, and the *S&P *is up 2.25 points.
Today, the last major piece of data is US non-farm payrolls, coming at 1.30 p.m. GMT. Analysts are expecting that 232,000 new jobs were added in November, up from 214,000 in October.
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