Global Stock Markets Mixed Head of Latest US Jobs Reading

A currency trader watches monitors at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, on Sept. 2, 2022. Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo

BEIJING—European stocks opened higher Friday while Asian markets mostly declined ahead of U.S. jobs data that might reinforce U.S. Federal Reserve plans for more interest rate hikes to cool inflation.

London, Frankfurt, and Shanghai rose. Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Sydney declined. Wall Street futures were nearly flat. Oil prices surged $2.50 per barrel.