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ECB Cuts Benchmark Rate to Record Low of 0.75%, Deposit to Zero
The European Central Bank cut interest rates to a record low and said it won’t pay anything on overnight deposits as the sovereign debt crisis threatens to drive the euro region into recession. Policy makers meeting in Frankfurt today lowered the ECB’s main refinancing rate to 0.75 percent from 1 percent, as predicted by 49 of 64 economists in a Bloomberg News survey. The ECB also cut its deposit rate to zero from 0.25 percent and its marginal lending rate to 1.5 percent from 1.75 percent. President Mario Draghi holds a press conference at 2:30 p.m. in Frankfurt to explain the decision. With Europe’s debt ... (full story)
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