Major business events and economic events scheduled for Friday: WASHINGTON — FDIC reports on bank closings. BEIJING — Commerce Ministry news conference on Chinese-US trade. BRUSSELS — EU conference on managing future banking crises with ECB's Trichet, IMF's Strauss-Kahn. FRANKFURT — Federal Statistical Office releases Germany producer prices for February.

Leading central bankers believe economic growth is advancing on a "very positive" path, allowing them to unwind stimulus measures, European Central Bank chief Jean-Claude Trichet said after they met on Monday. "At the global level, the sentiment is that growth continues to be very positive, and with a number of corrections," he told journalists after the group of central bankers ...