singapore shares in asiapacific looked set for a positive friday start following gains overnight on wall street investors will also be looking ahead to the release of us jobs data for may futures pointed to a higher open for japanese stocks the nikkei futures contract in chicago was at 27770 while its counterpart in osaka was at 27740 higher than the nikkei 225s last close at 2741388 australian stocks also looked poised to open higher with the spi futures contract at 7245 against the spasx 200s last close at 717590 overnight on wall street the three major indexes stateside snapped twoday losing streaks the sp 500 jumped 184 to 417682 the dow jones industrial average climbed 43505 points or 133 to 3324828 the techheavy nasdaq composite surged 269 to 1231690 us jobs data for may is set to be out at 830 pm hksin on friday economists surveyed by dow jones see 328000 jobs added in may a 100000 decline from april in other developments opec and its oilproducing allies agreed thursday to hike output in july and august by a largerthanexpected amount as russias invasion of ukraine roils global energy markets the us dollar index which tracks the greenback against a basket of its peers was at 101824 following a volatile week so far that has seen it going at points from below 1016 to above 1024 the japanese yen traded at 12992 per dollar weaker as compared with levels below 128 seen against the greenback earlier this week the australian dollar was at 07267 after a recent jump from below 0721