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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8659

5 March 2004
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ecb
ECB resists appeals to lower rates

Brussels, 04/03/2004 (Agence Europe) - To a more clement backdrop of a fall in the euro on the currency markets, the European Central Bank (ECB) decided on Thursday not to change its interest rates, despite increasing political pressure for greater monetary flexibility to support economic growth in Europe. The minimum bid rate applied to the principal re-financing operations and the interest rates of the marginal lending facility and the deposit facility thus remain unchanged, at 2%, 3% and...

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