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MSCI's broadest index of world shares dipped 0.2%, hovering near 7-week lows. The STOXX 600 index slid 0.3% and Wall Street's S&P futures were down 0.6%

Inflation in the eurozone peaked at 10.6 per cent last October and has been slowly decreasing since then

Financial firms have led the charge in global issuance this year as a sector, with year-to-date sales topping $250 billion

Driven once more by soaring food and energy costs, consumer prices jumped 8.6 per cent from a year earlier in June - up from 8.1 per cent in May

Energy prices jumped 39.2%, highlighting how the war and the accompanying global energy crunch are making life more expensive for the eurozone's 343 million people

The ECB should end its stimulus bond-buying scheme "early in the third quarter", Lagarde said in a speech in Ljubljana

Euro zone economic sentiment dropped more than expected last month

This is the highest since records began in 1997

Consumer prices rose 4.1 per cent in October, compared with the median of economist estimates at 3.7 per cent

Eurozone inflation accelerated to 3.4 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) in September, reaching a 13-year high, according to a flash estimate published on Friday by Eurostat

The economy of the 19 countries that use the euro shrank by 11.8 per cent in the second quarter, the biggest decline on record and slightly less than originally reported, according to updated figures

Germany and the eurozone also face the possibility of disrupted trade with Britain, which left the EU on January 31

Two-year bond yields fell to 4 1/2-month lows at minus 0.796%

The services PMI edged down to 56.3 in May from 56.4 in April

It has dampened the prospects of robust economic growth after bullish sentiment indicators

It climbed to 56.7 from February's 56.0, its highest reading since April 2011

The 28-nation bloc is struggling for a way forward after Britain's vote to leave

Eurostat says GDP in the 19 countries sharing the euro rose 0.3% quarter-on-quarter in the July-September period

It is now clearer than ever that EU member states prioritise domestic political imperatives over common rules - and Europe's common good