DJ ECB's Trichet: Ready To Make Decision On Interest Rates
FRANKFURT (Dow Jones)--The European Central Bank's governing council is
prepared to make a decision regarding interest rates, European Central Bank
President Jean-Claude Trichet said Friday.
"After two and a half years of maintaining historically and execeptionally
low interest rates...the governing council is ready to take a decision,"
Trichet said, speaking at a banking conference.
The ECB has kept its key refinancing policy rate unchanged at 2% since June
2003.
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