Indian shares recovered from a weak opening to end slightly higher on Friday.

Shares of Reddit Inc. were gaining around 14 percent in the pre-market activity on the New York Stock Exchange after the social media company announced a deal with artificial intelligence or AI startup OpenAI, the developer of highly popular generative AI chatbot ChatGPT. The deal will bring Reddit's content to ChatGPT and its products. OpenAI will also become a Reddit advertising partner.

European stocks extended declines on Friday after having snapped a nine-day winning streak the previous day.

U.K. stocks traded lower on Friday as chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivers a speech on the state of the economy ahead of the general election.

French stocks declined on Friday, with uncertainty over the timing of U.S rate cuts, mixed data from China and disappointing earnings updates keeping investors nervous.

The US stock market has surged to new heights, with the S&P 500 index reaching a record high of 5,325 points and the DJIA index touching 40,000 points. Investors are experiencing euphoria, spurred by the unexpectedly low US inflation figures released earlier.

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Although Australian employment grew by 38.5k jobs, surpassing the consensus expectation of 23.7k, the labour market report's details were disappointing for several reasons.

EUR/USD has risen approximately 1% this week due to a decline in the dollar, although the euro is trailing behind other pro-cyclical currencies in the G10, excluding the US data-sensitive CAD. This isn't unexpected, as the euro has the weakest three-month correlation with two-year USD swap rates, which previously insulated it from significant upward adjustments in Fed expectations.