A quick look at European markets, and it's clear the European Central Bank meeting has proved a damp squib.

With even ECB head Mario Draghi describing its monthly press conference as "boring", the FTSE 100 has finished virtually unchanged, up just 0.03% at 5827.78. Germany's Dax is down 0.23%, France's Cac is off 0.14%, Italy's FTSE MIB is down 0.15% and Spain's Ibex is 0.18% lower.

Only Wall Street is showing signs of life, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.63% following better than expected weekly jobless claims ahead of Friday's non-farm payroll numbers.

Back with the ECB, Michael Hewson, senior market analyst at CMC Markets, said:

Anyone looking for anything tangibly new from today’s ECB press conference came away with a feeling of anti-climax and not a little deja-vu with Spain remaining the main area of concern with respect to next steps in the European debt crisis. As expected the ECB left rates unchanged and President Draghi reiterated the conditionality required for countries to take advantage of the outright monetary transactions program.

And with that, we'll end for the evening. Back tomorrow for all the latest developments with Spain, Greece et al, and of course the US non-farm payrolls