EUR/USD up at 1.3305 from a North American close Wednesday down around 1.3260. General risk appetite has been improved by release of much better than expected Australian jobs data (56k versus median 19k) and better than expected Japanese Q3 GDP data (revised up to 1.1% from initial estimate of 0.9%)
Euro zone data due today:
06:30 GMT: French non-farm payrolls Q3 (final) expected +0.3%
07:00 GMT: German CPI for November (final) expected +0.1% m/m, +1.6% y/y
09:00 GMT: ECB monthly report for December
European stocks expected to open frmer this morning; DAX and FTSE up around +0.5%, CAC 40 up around +0.7%
