First look... Stock futures are slightly up as investors await the government's report on October employment. World markets rose Friday ahead of the release of key U.S. jobs data, which markets use to gauge the health of consumer spending in the world's largest economy in the run-up to the year-end holiday season. Gains in Europe were relatively subdued compared with the performance in Asia earlier in the wake of Thursday's big advance on Wall Street. All ten reporting Asian/pacific markets are up. The Australian All Ordinaries is up 1.89%. The China Shanghai Composite is up 0.28%. Six of nine reporting European markets are up. The Belgium Bel 20 is up 0.83%. The Austria ATX is down 0.5%. Almost all of the highest volume US stocks on the Frankfurt exchange are up. Alcoa (AA), Ford (F), Time Warner (TWX), Qualcomm (QCOM), Bank of America (BAC), General Electric (GE) and Citigroup (C) are up. E Trade (ETFC), Microsoft (MSFT) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) are down.