Facebook owner Meta META.O was set to surge after its after-hours buyback news while internet giants Apple AAPL.O and Amazon AMZN.O are also due to report later. Fed chair Jerome Powell's message that a "disinflationary" process was taking hold had kept both European shares and Wall Street pointing higher .N, and the dollar DXY. GVD/EUR Dirk Schumacher, head of European macro research at Natixis, said that both the Fed and BoE were now effectively at the point of "fine tuning", whereas the ECB still had more ground to cover having started its hikes later.