Stocks and the dollar rose on Friday with investors focused on U.S. job data later in the day to glean clues on whether the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates, maybe even as soon as this month.

Economists polled by Reuters expect the U.S. economy to have added about 180,000 jobs in August, wages to nudge up and for the overall unemployment rate to dip to 4.8 percent


Analysts said that a payrolls reading of around over 200,000 could even prompt the Federal Reserve to consider raising rates at its next meeting in three weeks time, whereas under 100,000 would push back expectations of a rate rise into 2017.