farm payrolls numbers for January on Friday. "Today was a bit disappointing. A few big stocks disappointed like Alcatel, and there was the reminder that rate rises are still going through in the States," said Mark Bon, a fund manager at Canada Life. "Two out of three results at the moment are reasonably positive so it's a bit of a disappointment there is no follow through. It boils down to whether people are convinced by economic growth in Europe and if it's strong enough to keep momentum going," Bon said. Deutsche Bank rose 1.3 percent after Germany's biggest bank unveiled a smaller-than-expected fall in fourth-quarter profit and promised to cut 6,400 jobs worldwide in a bid to boost earnings by over 20 percent this year. --More 0002 Local Time 2102 GMT
