The European Central Bank's final monetary policy meeting of the year next Thursday in Frankfurt tops a critical week for the global economic recovery. The ECB will not only deliver its final interest rate decision of 2014 next week, but will also publish up-to-date macro-economic projections for the coming two years, forecasts that are expected to show a marked decline in both growth and inflation as the currency area grapples to avoid its second recession in five years. The estimates will come during a week in which we'll get a glimpse of economic activity in China with official government PMI figures Monday, rate ... (full story)