EUR/USD sits at 1.5000, marginally firmer from a North American close Wednesday around 1.4980.

Risk appetite will have gotten a little underpinning from the news that Australia created 24,500 new jobs in October.

Euro zone data/events due today:

07:45 GMT: French current account for September

09:00 GMT: ECB monthly report November

10:00 GMT: Euro zone industrial production s.a September expected +0.5% m/m, -14.1 y/y

19:00 GMT: ECB President Trichet to give speech in Frankfurt.

Buy orders down at 1.4940/50 and 1.4920. Sell orders 1.5050/60. Probably decent stops below 1.4920 and above 1.5060.