Positive start for STOXX
STOXX 600 up 0.3%
Energy shares outperform
Wall Street futures soft
Focus on U.S. PCE
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POSITIVE START FOR STOXX (0858 GMT)
Europe's STOXX 600 .STOXX is rising for a second day and trading near last week's one-year high, ahead of more prices data in the form of U.S. personal consumption expenditures (PCE), the Fed's preferred inflation measure.
The pan-European benchmark is up 0.3%. Germany's DAX .GDAXI, France's CAC 40 .FCHI and Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE are up 0.1%-0.3%.
Swedish medical equipment maker Elekta tops the STOXX 600 after its third-quarter results beat estimates, while French auto parts supplier Valeo is down 5.5% and German chemicals firm BASF slumps 3.5% after earnings disappointed.
Meanwhile, Rolls-Royce shares are jumping for a second day after the company's turnaround strategy showed early signs of success, as profit and cash flow both beat forecasts.
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(Samuel Indyk)
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EUROPE SET TO RISE (0732 GMT)
European shares are set to edge higher on Friday, underpinned by a late recovery on Wall Street on Thursday, which ended a topsy-turvy day in the green and saw the S&P 500 .SPX snap a four-day losing streak.
Euro STOXX 50 futures STXEc1 are up 0.33%, although U.S. equity futures are pointing to slight losses at the opening bell later on.
In Asia, MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS is off 1%, led by declines in China and Hong Kong.
Japan's Nikkei 225 .N225 outperforms other regional indices, gaining 1.3% after prospective new BOJ governor Kazuo Ueda said the central bank must maintain ultra-low interest rates, even as inflation hit a more than four-decade high.
In Europe, Credit Suisse will be one to watch at the open after the embattled bank said it will reduce their distribution as a result of market conditions in 2022, while German chemicals giant BASF plans to cut jobs and halt buybacks as it warned of a further decline in earnings.
(Samuel Indyk)
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KURODA 2.0 (0654 GMT)
Kazuo Ueda, who takes over as Bank of Japan governor in April, does not give the impression of a man in a hurry.
His surprise nomination for the job sent markets into a tizz a couple of weeks back as investors took the appointment of an outsider as a signal for change. Interest rate markets are positioned for an end to yield curve control as a first step away from decades of super-easy policy experiments in Japan.
Yet as he fronted his confirmation hearing before parliament on Friday, he sounded very much like incumbent Haruhiko Kuroda. It will take "some time" to achieve desired inflation, he said. "It's important to maintain monetary easing," he said.
Traders responded with relief and the Nikkei share average .N225 had its best session in a month. Ten-year Japanese government bond futures 2JGBv1 rallied about 20 ticks. Cash bond yields JP10YTN=JBTC remained at their 0.5% ceiling. JP/
That could perhaps hold things until next week, when Tokyo CPI JPCPTO=ECI is due. Inflation hit a four-decade high last month, Friday figures showed, and the Tokyo reading is a reliable indicator so will be closely watched.
Meanwhile, investors were bracing for the release on Friday of the U.S. personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index for January, the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation measure.
The index is expected to be up 4.3% on a year earlier, compared with 4.4% the previous month. A surprise could shake things up, though with U.S. rate expectations already ratcheting higher through February a degree of stickiness is priced in.
Elsewhere the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution marking the anniversary of war in Ukraine and demanding Moscow pull out and stop the conflict. Fighting raged on in Ukraine's east and south.
Key developments that could influence markets on Thursday:
- German GDP
- UK consumer confidence
- G20 finance chiefs meeting (Bengaluru, India)
- U.S. PCE inflation (January)
- Fed's Mester, Jefferson, Collins and Waller speak
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