Brussels, 04/06/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 4 June, the European Central Bank decided to maintain the status quo on euro area interest rates and confirmed that it intended to launch its plan to purchase €60 billion of covered bonds. The main refinancing operations interest rate remains, then, at 1%, with the marginal lending facility and deposit facility rates at 1.75% and 0.25% respectively. Following the meeting of the Board of Governors, the Bank President said that “the...