Draghi faces continued growth and inflation conundrum

Euro zone inflation hasn't hit its target since 2013

ECB President Mario Draghi

A suite of euro zone data on Friday will provideMario Draghi with his first simultaneous dispatches from both fronts in his struggle to boost inflation – showing how he still has a fight on his hands.

Gross domestic product numbers, in a newly-accelerated publication just one month after the first quarter ended, will coincide with the usual end-of-the-month inflation statistics to present a snapshot of what the European Central Bank president still has ...