UPDATE 2-European shares inch lower as data-heavy week looms

* C.bank meetings, U.S. earnings and Davos lined up for week
* EU PMI data due on Friday, slowdown seen bottoming out
* Retailers worst performers for the day
* Air France biggest pct loser on STOXX 600

(Updates comments, prices)
By Sagarika Jaisinghani and Ambar Warrick
Jan 20 (Reuters) - European shares retreated from recent
peaks on Monday as investors paused before launching into a week
packed with economic data and the European Central Bank's first
policy meeting of the year.
The pan-European STOXX 600 index .STOXX was down about
0.1%, after ending at a record high on Friday on optimism around
U.S.-EU trade talks. Market activity was thin because of a
holiday in the United States.
The benchmark European index has risen about 2% so far this
month, as investors bet on a recovery in global growth amid
cooling U.S.-China trade tensions.
"We are seeing a little bit of a pullback, having seen a
very good run in markets since the start of the year," said
Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at Oanda in London, adding
that there was also some profit taking ahead of a "big week"
consisting of U.S. corporate earnings and the World Economic
Forum in Davos.
Markets will also be watching for the Purchasing Manager's
Index (PMI) from the euro zone on Friday, with a recent Reuters
poll showing that economists expect a slowdown in the bloc to
have bottomed out in 2019. Comments from ECB Chief Christine Lagarde at the central
bank's first policy meeting for the year on Thursday will also
be a point of interest. The bank is expected to keep the deposit
rate unchanged after cutting it in September for the first time
since 2016.
"We got a massive policy stimulus announced a few months
ago, and it's going to take some time for that to filter through
to the financial system. It's unlikely that the ECB is going to
act in the aftermath of that so soon," Oanda's Erlam said.
For the day, the retail subindex .SXRP was the worst
performing sector, with Switzerland's Dufry AG DUFN.S leading
losses with a 4.5% drop.
Air France AIRF.PA dropped to the bottom of the STOXX 600
after Davy Research downgraded the stock citing short-term
pressures from its restructuring. German stocks .GDAXI bucked the trend, rising about 0.2%
on strength in financials. Electronic payments service provider
Wirecard AG WDIG.DE was the biggest percentage gainer on the
DAX.