Europe is a bit lower on the day.
France is down 0.5%. Germany is down 0.2%. Italy, which continues to see political uncertainty, is down 0.8%.
The big story of the day is
On Thursday, Japan has its first Bank of Japan meeting under its new chief, and everyone's expecting some kind of aggressive new easing measure. Although this has been expected for awhile.
Meanwhile, US futures are up a tad.
In the US today, we get the ADP jobs report, a preview of this Friday's big Non-Farm Payrolls report.