Stocks are indicated modestly higher on in-line weekly jobless claims data and after European officials pledged aid to help Greece. Thirty minutes before the start of trading in New York, stock index futures indicate that the Dow Jones Industrial Average might add 30 or 35 points at the open.

Stock index futures ticked higher after the Labor Department said that jobless claims fell by 11,000 last week to 448,000 last week, which was not far from the 445,000 that economists had expected.

Meanwhile, European equity markets are steady and the euro is higher after European Union Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn said he’s confident that a financial aid package to debt-riddled Greece will be available in coming days.

France’s CAC 40 Index is pacing the advance across Europe with a 1.1 percent gain. Meanwhile, the euro added .0052 to 1.3254 against the buck.

Crude oil jumped $1.35 to $84.57 a barrel. Gold has lost some of its flight-to-safety bid and was recently down $6.5 to $1165.30. Bonds are flat on the in-line jobs data. The benchmark ten-year Treasury is unchanged and yields 3.76 percent.

Among the stocks to watch, PALM shares are up 24.8 percent after H-P (HPQ) made a $1 billion bid for the mobile device maker. Motorola (MOT) rose 6 percent after posting a surprise first quarter profit. Baidu.com (BIDU), First Solar (FSLR), and Akamai (AKAM) are also up on earnings. Procter & Gamble (PG), Eastman Kodak (EK), and Allstate (ALL) are seeing post-earnings weakness.