By Vikram Subhedar
LONDON, March 10 (Reuters) - Stocks rose, the dollar was on track for its fifth week of gains and crude oil rebounded from recent lows on Friday ahead of closely watched U.S. payrolls data which is expected to give the Federal Reserve the green light to raise interest rates next week.
Nonfarm payrolls probably increased by 190,000 jobs last month while employers boosted wages for workers, according to a Reuters survey of economists.
A tighter labour market, stock market boom and rising inflation amid a strengthening global economy have left some economists expecting that the Fed could increase interest rates much faster than is currently anticipated by financial markets.
"Global and local inflationary pressures could soon make markets reprice Fed rate hike expectations going into 2018 and beyond, which we think would be bullish for the USD," said Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) forex strategists in a note to clients.
The dollar index .DXY , which measures the greenback's strength against a basket of major currencies, was little changed, as the euro EUR= extended its overnight gains, but held close to its highest levels since January.
The euro, and the regional banking index, enjoyed a lift after European Central Bank head Mario Draghi's suggestion on Thursday it was less necessary to prop up the market through ultra-loose monetary policy.
Optimism about an economic recovery in Europe gaining traction helped the regional benchmark equity index .STOXX claw back some of its weekly losses. The index rose 0.4 percent helped by financials and energy shares.
Shares of Euro zone banks .SX7E rose nearly two percent to their highest in more than a year while BT Group BT.L jumped more than 4 percent after the telecoms giant after ending a two-year row with the UK regulator. on Wall Street ESc1 SPc1 were up 0.4 percent.
Investors globally pumped money into stocks for the tenth straight week, according to the latest data from Bank of America-Merrill Lynch and fund tracker EPFR.
The MSCI All-Country World index .MIWD00000PUS is less than a percent below all-time highs.
Year-to-date equity fund inflows of $82 billion now outpace the $80 billion into bond funds, the data showed, further stoking talk of the "Great Rotation" out of fixed income into equities.
In commodity markets, crude prices inched up after dropping to their lowest in more than three months in the previous session on worries about a global supply glut.
U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude CLc1 was up 0.5 percent while Brent crude LCOc1 rose 0.4 percent.
Gold fell below the key level of $1,200 an ounce on Friday and was on track for its worst week in four months, pressured by a stronger dollar.