Quick Overview

• Euro area unemployment rate rose from 7.6% to 7.7% in October, the highest in two years.
  

• YoY Japan’s consumer prices rose 1.7% in October
  Japan’s industrial production fell 3.1%
  Japans’ household spending fell 3.8% in October.
  Japan’s unemployment rate improved from 4.0% to 3.7% in October

• NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man working for Wal-Mart was killed on Friday when a throng of shoppers surged into a Long Island, New York, store and physically broke down the doors, a police spokesman said.

• MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's military said on Friday it had intensified efforts to develop new ballistic missiles in response to U.S. plans to deploy an anti-missile system in Europe and Russia's navy test fired a new generation rocket.