LONDON—Global stocks edged up on Friday, eyeing a sixth day of gains, while weak eurozone business activity data hit the euro and weighed on the bloc’s debt.
The MSCI World index, its broadest gauge of equity markets, was last up 0.1 percent in early European trade, with the Euro STOXX 50 index up 0.2 percent.
Overnight, the MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 0.1 percent, on course for its biggest weekly gain in about two months.
U.S. stock futures pointed to a lower open after weak overnight earnings from tech company Snap Inc. sounded the alarm among investors ahead of earnings from Twitter Inc. later on Friday….