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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7947

19 April 2001
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ecb
IMF Director General calls on ECB to cut rates

Brussels, 18/04/2001 (Agence Europe) - Horst Koehler, Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), invited the European Central Bank (ECB) to cut its key rates. In an interview published on Thursday by the magazine Capital, he considers that the lower rates would help at a critical time for the economic situation of the world and in Europe "without endangering the stability of ECB policy". He considers that the economic fundamentals of the world economy are good, and that, at the...

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