24/09/2008 (Agence Europe) - With the American banks' rescue plan in trouble due to hostility from a large number of MPs and creating concern in financial centres across the globe, the European Central Bank (ECB) announced on Wednesday 24 September that it had injected an additional $40 billion (€27.27 billion) of cash, in order to appease the markets and maintain the flow of cash between banks reluctant to lend each other funds. On Tuesday, the ECB and the Bank of England made injections of $80 billion dollars (€54.55 billion). (O.L./transl.fl)