Europe open: Stocks recover from early selling, US jobs report in the spotlight
Stocks across the Continent are in the green, having recovered from early selling pressure following the previous session's debacle on Wall Street.
To take note of, overnight at least two top US central bank officials sounded a cautious note on the outlook, as did the Monetary Policy Committee's Michael Saunders.
Against that backdrop, investors were waiting on the release of the all-important US non-farm payrolls report for August at 1330 BST - and some were cautious.
"Traders have got another jobs report to contend with as we head towards the weekend, with yet another decline in the payrolls number looking likely," said IG senior market analysts Josh Mahony.
"Despite questions over the correlation between the ADP and headline NFP figures, the fact that we have now seen two disappointing ADP figures does point towards potential disappointment today."
As of 1115 BST, the benchmark Stoxx 600 was 0.52% higher to 367.99, alongside a 1.09% advance for the FTSE Mibtel, but Germany's Dax was only 0.16% higher to 13,079.14.
The latest economic data out of Europe meanwhile was on the soft side.
Factory orders in Germany increased at a month-on-month clip of 2.8% (consensus: 5%) for July, solely thanks to a jump in export orders, which offset a plunge in domestic orders.