Eurozone Prices Fall At Record-Equaling Pace In January

(Reuters) - Eurozone consumer prices fell at a record-equaling pace in January, more steeply than expected and supporting the backers of the European Central Bank's money-printing plan to combat sustained deflation. The European statistics office said in a first estimate on Friday that prices in the 19 countries using the single currency in January were 0.6 percent lower than a year earlier, after a 0.2 percent decline in December. This was a sharper fall than 0.5 percent decline forecast by eco...