Europe's stock markets have risen in opening trade, continuing to win support from the European Central Bank's unprecedented quantitative easing stimulus.
In initial deals on Friday, London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top companies won 0.42 per cent to 6,825.41 points, Frankfurt's DAX 30 rose 0.65 per cent to 10,503.33 points and the CAC 40 in Paris gained 0.78 per cent to 4,588.49, compared with Thursday's closing level.
"The positive open stems from continued digestion of the ECB's QE announcement yesterday, which pleased markets," said Mike van Dulken, head of research at trading firm Accendo Markets.
The ECB sparked off a global stock market rally on Thursday after it revealed radical plans to pump more than 1.0 trillion euros ($A1.41 trillion) into the eurozone economy through September 2016 to boost growth and fight deflation.
In reaction, European and US stocks jumped higher on Thursday and the rally extended into Asia on Friday.
The ECB's decision to pump tens of billions of euros a month into financial markets has, however, sent the euro plunging to 11-year lows against the dollar.
ECB chief Mario Draghi's announcement of 60 billion euros per month in quantitative easing exceeded market expectations by 10 billion euros.
The QE stimulus had been widely predicted following a string of weak inflation figures out of the eurozone that culminated in a fall in prices in December for the first time in five years.
That sparked fears of a spiral of deflation and a long period of anaemic economic growth in the 19-nation currency bloc.
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