Stocks rise at the start of a week chock-full of reports

Wall Street is rising at the start of a week full of economic reports that could drive where interest rates, and thus stock prices, go.

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The S&P 500 rose 0.38 in early trading Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 150 points, or 0.3%, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 0.48. Stocks that got swept up in the frenzy around artificial-intelligence technology held a bit steadier following some big drops last week. Nvidia rose 1.58. The government releases its delayed jobs report for November on Tuesday, and consumer inflation data comes out on Thursday. European indexes were higher and Asian markets closed mostly lower.

Shares opened higher in Europe after a retreat Monday in Asia following Wall Street's worst day in three weeks. The price of bitcoin sank as traders braced for an interest rate hike by the Bank of Japan, expected later in the week. Germany's DAX gained 0.38 to 24,254.58 and the CAC 40 in Paris was up 0.8% to 8,131.56.

Britain's FTSE 100 advanced 0.68 to 9,711,10.

The futures for the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average were 0.4% higher.

Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index shed 1.3% to 50,168.11 after a quarterly “tankan” survey of big manufacturers by the central bank showed a slight improvement in sentiment among such businesses. The measure of those expressing optimism rose to 15 from 14 in the last quarter, the highest level in four years, the central bank said.