The Coming Week in Europe: ECB Meets Amid Euro Plunge

BERLIN -- Europe may finally be awakening from its summer slumber.

Now that cooler temperatures have descended upon the Continent, fund managers will have more to hold their interest than whether the Riviera or Greece offers the best tan.

Indeed, the coming week's agenda offers up a host of diverse issues: the continuing wobbly position of the euro, a European Central Bank meeting, a stirred-up technology market and the proposed merger of the London and Frankfurt exchanges. ...