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European stocks up ahead of key US data
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 11 - 06 - 2009

European markets rose cautiously Thursday as investors awaited U.S. economic data due later in the day
for further signs that the recession plaguing the world's
largest economy is stabilizing, AP reported.
In European morning trading, Britain's FTSE 100 was up 0.3
percent at 4,450.37, Germany's DAX rose 0.5 percent to
5,077.67, and France's CAC 40 added 0.3 percent at
3,324.72.
Wall Street was set to open moderately higher. Dow Jones
industrial average futures rose 0.3 percent to 8,779 and
Standard & Poor's 500 futures climbed 0.3 percent to
943.60.
Asian stock markets were mixed, with Japan's benchmark
Nikkei index pulling back from its first move above 10,000
in eight months amid conflicting signs about the strength
of an economic recovery.
In Europe, volumes were low ahead of the publication of
U.S. weekly jobless claims and retail sales, both due at
1230 GMT.
«It's going to be a matter of hanging on till later in
the afternoon,» said James Hughes, market analyst at CMC
Markets. «There's a real lack of corporate data which
leaves the market pretty directionless and open to big
swings.»
Oil and gas stocks were buoyed by crude prices rising to
$72 a barrel amid investor optimism about a global economic
recovery. Benchmark crude for July delivery was up 77 cents
at $72.10 in European trading on the New York Mercantile
Exchange.
In Asia, Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index lost 0.1 percent to
9,981.33. It wavered in a narrow range after a surge early
in the day took it above the psychologically important
10,000 mark for the first time since Oct. 8.
But signs of upward pressure on U.S. interest rates, which
could quash a nascent economic recovery, and some weak
economic data from the region offset gains in Tokyo-listed
steel shares.
Strong investment data from China initially overcame
investors' qualms over an imminent resumption of initial
public offerings on the mainland that some fear will flood
the market with new shares.


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