The index of industrial production in February rose 0.6% from a year earlier, government data showed Friday.
In U.S. economic news, pending home sales for February fell 0.4%, a touch more than expectations for a 0.3% decline.
But the size of the UK rate cut in February, 0.25%, was far smaller than the two cuts announced by the Fed, which amounted to 1%.
However, Euro zone retail sales dropped in February by 0.3%.
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Euro-zone industrial production for February rose 0.4% on the month, besting expectations of a 0.1% increase, although January's decline was revised to 0.6% from a previous estimate of 0.4%.
That followed a 0.7 percent jump in February and a 0.3 percent gain in January.
That followed a 1 percent gain in February and a 0.1 percent decline in January.
Volpon says he expects that February inflation (0.9%) was the high for the year.
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Meanwhile, figures showed that industrial production in France bounced back in February, gaining 0.7% on the previous month.
However, the increase is the smallest in consumer spending for three months, and marks a slowdown from February's 0.7% jump and January's 0.3% rise.
Factory production rose a seasonally adjusted 0.8% in February from the previous month, after falling 0.3% in January, the Federal Reserve said.
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India's February industrial production grew 0.6% from a year earlier, government data showed Friday.
When February is down, the 12 month return inclusive of that February is 2.0%.
Economists were expecting a gain of 1.2% overall in February, and a 0.7% rise in sales excluding autos.
Its last reading was a significant negative surprise, showing a decline from 68.0 in February to 59.7 in March.
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The IPCA-15 inflation index for February came in at 0.68% month over month last week, more than the 0.62% expected by the market.
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The Conference Board's index declined from 78.8 in January to 64.0 in February, a nine-year low that may herald weaker growth in consumer spending.
Meantime, fresh economic data from China was downbeat, as weekend figures showed the inflation rate rose to 3.2% in February from 2.0% in January, on an annualized basis.
February business inventories increased 0.1%, short of the 0.5% expected.
But it was at 59.0 in February a year ago.
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The number of jobless Germans rose 13, 000 in March versus expectations of an unchanged reading, but February retail sales increased 0.4% on the month compared with expectations of a 0.6% decline.
And we learned that February may not have been any better, since the Conference Board reported the bottom has dropped out of consumer confidence, its Consumer Confidence Index plunging from 56.5 in January to 46.0 in February. (The norm for the index is 100, based on its level in 1985).
Meanwhile, the Federal Housing Finance Agency's February home-price index showed a monthly rise of 0.7% in February, while new-home sales for March rose 1.5% to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 417, 000.
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Germany's DAX advanced 0.9% on the day and 0.4% for February, to 7741.70, while France's CAC-40 added 0.9%, for a 0.3% monthly gain to 3723.00.
However, the number of people in NI claiming unemployment-related benefits increased to 61, 400 in February, a rise of 0.3%.
The previous record was 22.0 tons on February 18 of this year.
In February, survey participants hired 0.17 workers on average over the past three months, compared to a net decrease in employment for 33 out of the past 37 months.
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According to the Labour Force Survey, unemployment between February and April rose by 0.6% to 7.1%, a figure below the UK average and very slightly down on the same time last year.
The employment-to-population ratio (EPOP) was unchanged at 58.6 percent, exactly the same as the rate in February of 2012 and just 0.4 percentage points above the low hit in the summer of 2011.
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