BANGKOK—Shares in Europe and Asia were mostly higher Friday after a historic plunge in the stock price of Facebook’s parent company yanked other tech stocks lower on Wall Street. Shares rose in Paris, London, and Tokyo. Hong Kong jumped 3.3 percent after reopening from Lunar New Year holidays. Trading in Shanghai will resume on Monday. But world markets were little affected. Trading has been relatively muted this week, with Chinese markets closed and coronavirus cases still surging in Asia, especially in Japan and Hong Kong. “Unfortunately, coronavirus is dragging on like ground hog day and touching all of us,” Shane Oliver of AMP Capital said in a commentary. Investors will get updates on U.S. jobs with the Labor Department’s monthly report for January on Friday. Fresh inflation data are due next week. In London, the FTSE 100 added 0.5 percent to 7,568.99, while the CAC 40 in Paris climbed 0.3 …
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