Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Friday said third quarter net income tripled, as rising stock markets boosted its investment holdings and a quiet hurricane season contributed to higher insurance profit.

The dollar is likely to trade higher in the week ahead, with Friday's worse-than-expected U.S. non-farm payrolls data for October seen as the driving force for currency markets at least until mid week.

A new report, released by employment Web site CareerBuilder.com, ranked the top metro areas with the most job postings on the site between January and October 2009.

U.S. wholesalers continued liquidating their inventories in September, with stocks falling for the 13th consecutive month and sales increasing for the fifth straight month, Commerce Department Data showed on Friday.

For President Barack Obama, the report that showed that the unemployment rate hit 10.2 percent last month gives opponents a chance to score some easy points.

U.S. employers cut a deeper-than-expected 190,000 jobs in October, driving the unemployment rate to 10.2 percent, the highest in 26-1/2 years.

Euro strength is far from over and the dollar could fall to an all-time low against the bullish currency, Phil Roberts, technical analyst from Barclays Capital, told CNBC.

The current market rally will stop in the next few days, a correction of at least 3 weeks will follow, but stocks will rebound and finish high in 2010, independent trader Bill McLaren said Friday.

The U.S. unemployment rate blasted past the psychologically important 10-percent mark Friday as nonfarm payrolls fell by 190,000 last month. It's the first time the unemployment rate -- now at 10.2 percent -- was in double digits since June 1983.

The strong profit announcement from Southeast Asia's biggest bank, DBS Group, released on Friday, is good news for the region, said Neil Katkov, senior VP and Head of Asia at Celent, in an interview with CNBC.

G20 policymakers are agreed that it is too early to pull the plug on economic life-support packages as the global recovery is still fragile, said British finance minister Alistair Darling.

Barack Obama has done it again. The president's starpower has made the United States the place most people want to visit and do business with, according to an annual survey that ranks nations like retail brands.

The dollar and yen rose Friday after a report showed the U.S. unemployment rate spiked and the economy lost more jobs than expected, stoking concerns about the U.S. economy and restoring safe-haven demand for both currencies.

The world economy is not headed for a double-dip recession, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in an interview with CNBC.

Asia's key indexes rebounded Friday from losses in the previous session, after strong U.S. jobs data reinforced hopes the economy is recovering.