On Wall Street, traders will also eye both the quarterly rebalancing of major stock benchmarks, including the S&P 500, as well as the regular 'triple witching hour' expiration or around $5 trillion worth of equity market options later in the session.

Resurgent risk appetite swept global financial markets higher from stocks and metals to gold and oil on Thursday, after the U.S. Federal Reserve kicked off its long-awaited interest rate cutting cycle with a half point move.

U.S. stock indexes remained stuck in place as Wall Street made few big moves ahead of what’s expected to be the first cut to interest rates in more than four years.