Key U.S. jobs data, a likely interest-rate cut by the ECB and China’s annual National People’s Congress will all attract attention during the week.

The European Central Bank said late on Thursday it had fixed an unprecedented outage in its payment system which had left transactions likely worth trillions of euros from companies, consumers and investors up in the air for most of the day.

French inflation retreated to its lowest level in four years, bolstering the case for further interest-rate cuts by the European Central Bank, whose next move is likely to arrive next week.

The European Central Bank is expected to cut interest rates again this week in a bid to boost the floundering eurozone economy, even as debate heats up about when to

The European Central Bank will trim its deposit rate again next week to 2.50%, according to all 82 economists polled by Reuters who expected two further cuts by the middle of this year.

The European Central Bank’s securities settlement system is working again after a communications shutdown earlier on Thursday due to a hardware failure.

Monetary authorities should stick to their core mandate, according to a senior European Central Bank rate setter, after the Fed withdrew from a green financial network.

Asian stocks rose on Thursday as investors held out hope that trade tensions could ease after U.S. President Donald Trumpexempted some automakers from tariffs for a month, while the euro stood tall ahead of the European Central Bank's meeting.

Nation-State Bitcoin Reserves 'Risky Idea' European Central Bank adviser Jürgen Schaaf has reiterated the bank's negative stance on Bitcoin, stating that nation-state Bitcoin reserves are "risky" due to extreme volatility and susceptibility to manipulation.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. expects a pick up in Germany’s economy on the back of its plan to increase defense spending will spillover to neighboring countries and spur others in the euro area to raise military outlays too.

Euro zone inflation was heading back to target but there were still some worries about it, warranting caution in signalling further policy easing, the European Central Bank concluded last month, according to the accounts of its January 29-30 meeting.