Manufacturing and service sectors' activity in the single currency area has improved confidently in March, underlying positive expectations from the quantitative easing programme of the ECB that is likely to lift up Euro zone's weakened economy.
Activity in the production sector of the world's second biggest economy slipped surprisingly in March of the current year, reaching its lowest point in 11 months.
According to the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis James Bullard, markets should expect a greater volatility due to uncertainty over the Fed's future monetary policy decisions, especially when coming closer to the eventual increase of the federal funds rate.
The Standard & Poor's international ratings agency has increased its outlook for Portugal's sovereign credit ratings, up from "neutral" to the "positive" one.
Retail sales in Canada, the 11th biggest economy in the world, dropped considerably for a second consecutive month in January due to falling prices of oil.
Just two days after UK Chancellor of Exchequer George Osborne presented his Budget for the financial year 2015, country's public finances showed a considerable improvement.
Producer prices in Germany, the largest economy in the single currency area, continued show some weakness during the month of February.
Following its meeting on Thursday, the Swiss National Bank decided to keep the main policy rate unchanged at the record-low level below zero at -0.75%.
Mortgage lending in the United Kingdom declined to its lowest level in almost two years, namely since April 2013, as the property market in the country seems to be undergoing a correction phase.
For a second consecutive week less than 300,000 people are applying for unemployment benefits in the United States.
The European Central Bank held one more round of Targeted Long-term Refinancing Operations programme, which is aimed to improve bank lending to Euro zone's non-financial private sector and stimulate economic recovery.
Following worse than expected manufacturing sales data, wholesale trade shocked with the biggest decline in six years in January, raising concerns over economic growth for the month.
While the claimant count rate continued to decline for the 28th straight month in January, the UK unemployment rate remained unchanged at post-crisis low.
The Federal Reserve has eventually dropped its previous patient stance towards an increase of the federal funds rate.
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development revised upwards its 2015 growth outlook for the Euro zone amid the positive effect of low oil prices and ECB's stimulus.
Canada's manufacturing sales declined more than expected in January, as sales of petroleum and coal products plummeted to the lowest level in almost six years.
The Bank of Japan kept its monetary policy stimulus unchanged in line with expectations, while analysts believe further actions might be needed in the coming months on the back of low consumer inflation rate.
The BoE's decision in March to keep the benchmark interest rate intact marked six years of record low interest rate environment in Britain.
US housing starts plummeted in February by the most in four years as extreme weather forced American construction companies to cut down on the number of building sites.
Some positive data came out on Tuesday, supporting ECB President Mario Draghi comments earlier in the week that the Euro zone's sustained recovery is underway.
The Reserve Bank of Australia signalled another interest rate cut might be needed in the foreseeable future, but highlighted that the pause this month was appropriate amid uncertainty about households' behaviour in a very low interest rate environment.
The Swiss economy has started the week on a wobbly footing, as fundamentals came out worse than expected on Monday.
The Conference Board Leading Economic Index rose 0.2% in January, following zero growth in the preceding month. The CB's measure of current economic activity climbed 0.1% in January to 105.1 after the 0.2% increase a month earlier.
US industrial production rose less than expected in February, clouding optimism over the economic outlook.