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Prices in the euro zone fell in February, falling short of already depressed expectations and virtually ensuring another round of policy easing from the European Central Bank. Sonia Legg reports.
German retail sales were even stronger than expected in August and euro zone inflation shows signs of perking up. Good news for the ECB; Japan's central bankers, though, are confronted with another set of inflation data going the wrong way. Kate King reports.
Euro zone business growth slowed this month as Asian demand weakened, leading to fewer new jobs and forcing factories to reduce output, even though companies raised prices for the first time in over four years. David Pollard reports.
The European Central Bank has taken the ultimate policy leap, launching a government bond-buying programme which will pump hundreds of billions of new money into a sagging euro zone economy. David Pollard asks if it will have the necessary impact?
ECB President Mario Draghi says the euro zone's economy needs a comprehensive strategy including reforms to get it back on track and can't be sorted by monetary policy alone. As Sonia Legg reports his warning comes as falling Spanish prices add to deflation pressures.
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