ECB lends $500bn to lower rates
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The European Central Bank lends money to banks at below-market rates as a means of tackling the credit crunch.
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Sterling stabilised at lower levels against the euro, as well as falling against the dollar, as it remained on the backfoot after last week's weak data and dovish comments by the Bank of England's (BoE) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) member Kate Barker.
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THE Bank of England left its key interest rate at 4.75 per cent yesterday, a decision that was widely expected, after a raft of data that showed the economy was cooling down.
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BRUSSELS - The European Central Bank has lowered its growth forecast for the eurozone economy this year to 1.8% from a previously projected 1.9%, and to 1.9% from 2.3% in 2005, sources close to the ECB said.
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The Hungarian central bank lowered its key interest rate by 50 basis points, from 11.0 percent to 10.5 percent, the bank said in a statement posted on its website.
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Business & money: Bank of England contemplates a fifth rise in interest rates in less than 12 months to tackle inflation.
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Banks will be now able to borrow additional funds from the Bank of England in a move aimed at reducing the "credit squeeze".
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The Bank of England held its key interest rate at 5.50 percent, the highest level for six years, the central bank announced on Thursday.
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The European Central Bank said Monday that a fine-tuning operation had allowed it to drain 36.6 billion dollars (52.8 billion dollars) from eurozone money markets.
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The Bank of England on Thursday left its key interest rate at 5.50 percent, opting against back-to-back cuts amid a gloomy economic outlook at home and abroad.
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The Hungarian central bank reduced its key interest rate by half a percentage point, from 10.0 to 9.5 percent, according to an official statement posted on its website.
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All nine members of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee voted to cut interest rates by a quarter-point to 5.5 percent in December and even discussed whether slowing growth meant a bigger reduction might be needed.
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FRANKFURT, Germany -- The European Central Bank held its key interest rate steady at 4 percent while the Bank of England cut its benchmark rate by a quarter percentage point to 5.25 percent on Thursday.
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European Central Bank (ECB) President Jean-Claude Trichet, using words rather than policy, helped bring the euro down from a record in his first year in office, shoring up an economic recovery reliant on ...
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LONDON  - The euro steadied just below the 1.30 dollar mark as the markets positioned themselves for this weekend&#39;s G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bankers in Berlin.
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The Hungarian central bank reduced its key interest rate by half a percentage point to 9.0 percent, saying inflation was falling but warning of a high public deficit that threatens Hungary's chances of adopting the euro by 2010.
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The dollar was weaker against the euro on Tuesday but above record lows reached after remarks by European Central Bank chief Jean-Claude Trichet suggested the ECB was unlikely to intervene to stem the euro&#39;s rise.