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Eurostat: Eurozone Inflation Accelerates to 1.9% in April

Eurozone inflation accelerated to 1.9% in April, just shy of the European Central Bank's target, despite continuing uncertainty over Brexit and the outcome of the French elections, data showed Friday, AFP reported.

The figure was a sharp acceleration from the 1.5% reached in March, and higher than the 1.8 % forecast by analysts surveyed by Factset, a data company.

Twitter reports slowest quarterly revenue growth, shares slide

Twitter Inc reported its slowest quarterly revenue growth since going public as the company continues to face intense competition from Snap Inc's Snapchat and Facebook Inc's Instagram.

The company's shares fell as much as 10 percent to $16.81 in premarket trading on Feb. 9.

Twitter said its user base increased 4 percent to 319 million average monthly active users.

German business morale unfazed by Paris attacks

German business confidence has increased dramatically in November, shrugging off the Volkswagen emissions scandal and the recent attacks in Paris, a leading economic think tank says German business confidence bounced back in November as Europe's top economy shrugged off global uncertainty and the deadly jihadist assault in Paris, a leading economic think tank said yesterday.