* European shares rise as euro falls
* Dollar strong as Fed seen raising rates next week
* Oil near 2015 lows after OPEC keeps output high
By Nigel Stephenson
LONDON, Dec 7 (Reuters) - European shares started the week
strongly on Monday, buoyed by gains on Wall Street and a weaker
euro, while the dollar rose after upbeat jobs data on Friday
bolstered investor confidence in the strength of the U.S.
economy.
Asian shares edged lower as investors kept a weather eye on
Chinese economic data due late this week which is expected to
show the world's second-largest economy is still sluggish.
Crude oil prices held near their lowest levels of the year
after OPEC failed to agree on output targets that could cut a
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Market moves this week may be muted as investors digest the
European Central Bank's moves last week to stimulate growth and
inflation, which disappointed many, and look ahead to next
week's U.S. Federal Reserve policy meeting, at which rates are
expected to rise for the first time since 2006.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 stocks index .FTEU3 rose
1.3 percent as a weaker euro lifted exporters. Germany's DAX
.GDAXI added 1.6 percent. European shares closed at three-week
lows on Friday after the euro soared in reaction to Thursday's
ECB decision.
"The euro dropping away is supportive for the equity
markets," said Hantec Markets analyst Richard Perry.
A notable faller on Monday was Sweden's Electrolux
ELUXb.ST , down 11 percent after its $3.3 billion deal to buy
General Electric (N:GE)'s GE.N appliance business fell through.
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A 2 percent gain on Wall Street on Friday lifted European
equity investors' spirits. That followed data showing 211,000
new U.S. jobs were created in November, which cemented already
firm expectations the Fed would raise interest rates on Dec. 16
and was perceived as a sign of the U.S. economy's strength.
Asian investors were worrying about Chinese trade date due
on Tuesday, inflation the following day, and industrial output
and retail sales figures due on Saturday. ECONCN
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MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan
.MIAPJ0000PUS dipped 0.3 percent. Japan's Nikkei .N225
closed 1 percent higher, thanks to a weaker yen, having lost 2.2
percent on Friday.
In China, the CSI300 index .CSI300 of the largest listed
companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen rose 0.3 percent, as did the
Shanghai Composite .SSEC .
In currency markets, the dollar index .DXY , which measures
the greenback against a basket of currencies, rose 0.2 percent.
The euro EUR= , which saw its biggest daily gain in seven years
on Thursday on disappointment at the ECB's easing package, fell
0.4 percent to $1.0844.
ECB President Mario Draghi, in a speech in New York on
Friday, said more stimulus could be deployed if necessary.
"Draghi's correctively dovish speech emphasised that the ECB
can do more, attempting to put the ECB decision in a broader
easing context," Mizuho's head of euro rates strategy Peter
Chatwell, said in a note to clients.
The yen JPY= fell 0.1 percent to 122.34 per dollar.
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Oil prices dipped. Brent LCOc1 fell 17 cents to $42.82 a
barrel, not far from its 2015 low of $42.23 hit in August.
Gold XAU= held near a three-week high, trading at
$1,083.80, having risen as far as $1,088.70 on Friday after the
U.S. jobs report failed to give much of a lift to the dollar.
Euro zone government bond yields, which posted their biggest
daily gain in five years at short maturities on Thursday, fell
on Monday.
Benchmark German 10-year yields DE10YT=TWEB dropped 2.5
basis points to 0.67 percent while two-year yields DE2YT=TWEB
fell 2.2 bps to just above -0.3 percent.