European stocks rose on Friday, as investors focused on the US jobs report, which will be released later today.
Analysts forecast that the US economy has added nearly 1 million jobs (990,000 new jobs) during April, but the unemployment rate rose to 7.8% from 7.5%.
Observers believe that the US economy and several European economies have seen a strong recovery during the past few months, and are expected to continue.
This came thanks to many countries' success in containing the outbreak by distributing tens of millions of vaccines.
As of 9:58 GMT, the Euro Stoxx 600 index rose 0.4% or 2 points to 443, the UK's FTSE 100 rose 0.5% or 37 points to 7,113, Germany's DAX index added 1% or 158 points to 15,354, and France's CAC 40 rose 0.1% or 4 6,361