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ECB methadone is a tough habit to kick: James Saft

                   
reuters.co.uk
29-Aug-2008
        
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By James Saft LONDON (Reuters) -The ECB will find it tough to withdraw the financing life-support it has been offering banks, illustrating just how difficult it is to stave off a banking crisis without creating moral hazards. The ECB allows banks to post a wide array of assets as collateral for loans from the central bank. While this has been important in helping Europe's banks to finance themselves in the past... [read full story]                    

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FRANKFURT - The European Central Bank (ECB), the US Federal Reserve and other central banks plan to ease dollar refinancing rules in times of emergency, the Financial Times Deutschland said on Thursday. According to a...

ECB's Bonello Says Markets Correctly Assume No Rate Change in 2008

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27-Aug-2008
        

Speaking in an interview with Reuters, Central Bank of Malta President Michael Bonello said markets have rightfully understood the European Central Bank's message of no changes in interest rate in 2008 and that it was too...

ECB's Bonello Says Markets Correctly Assume No Rate Change in 2008, Says Reuters

economicnews.ca
27-Aug-2008
        

Speaking in an interview with Reuters, Central Bank of Malta President Michael Bonello said markets have rightfully understood the European Central Bank's message of no changes in interest rate in 2008 and that it was too...