The pan-European STOXX 600 index <.STOXX> lost 0.12 percent and MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe <.MIWD00000PUS> shed 0.08 percent.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average <.DJI> rose 64.89 points, or 0.26 percent, to 25,444.34, the S&P 500 <.SPX> lost 1 point, or 0.04 percent, to 2,767.78 and the Nasdaq Composite <.IXIC> dropped 36.11 points, or 0.48 percent, to 7,449.03.
Emerging market stocks <.MSCIEF> were flat. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan <.MIAPJ0000PUS> closed 0.13 percent higher.
Sterling <GBP=> was last trading at $1.3068, up 0.39 percent on the day. The euro <EUR=> rose 0.56 percent to $1.1516.
The dollar index <.DXY> fell 0.26 percent.
Mexico's currency lost 0.62 percent versus the U.S. dollar at 19.26 <MXN=>. It earlier touched 19.34 per dollar, the weakest in five weeks.
The Japanese yen <JPY=> weakened 0.28 percent versus the greenback at 112.50 per dollar.
Italy's benchmark 10-year bond yield <IT10YT=RR> rose as high as 3.783 percent, the highest since February 2014. It last traded at 3.569 percent.
U.S. crude <CLc1> rose 0.95 percent to $69.30 per barrel and Brent <LCOc1> was last at $79.94, up 0.82 percent on the day.
The benchmark U.S. Treasury yield traded within the previous session's range. The U.S 10-year note <US10YT=RR> last fell 4/32 in price to yield 3.1902 percent, from 3.175 percent late on Thursday.