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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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European Central Bank: The data for both ECB and Eurosystem international reserves and foreign currency liquidity can be accessed at.
new European Central Bank Competition -the ECB has launched an international urban planning and architectural design competition for its new premises.
The European Central Bank's president, Wim Duisenberg, acknowledged for the first time yesterday that the introduction of euro coins and notes in January led to higher prices in the 12 countries sharing the single currency.
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John Fielding,
CEO
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Monetary tightening was more aggressive in the euro region with the European Central Bank (ECB) raising its repo rate six times by a cumulative 175 basis points to 4.
European Central Bank President Wim Duisenberg said inflation will slide to ``well below'' 2 percent, fanning speculation that the ECB will lower interest rates as early as Thursday.
The European interest rate situation could be a problem if the central banks raise rates and our dollar falls in reaction of their tightening.
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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ECB to hold steady on interest rate The European Central Bank defied expectations in financial markets on 1st March, 2001, saying it was not thinking of cutting interest rates in spite of lower inflation and evidence of slower European economic growth.
The European Central Bank was established in 1998 to help formulate the joint monetary policy of those European Union nations adopting a single currency.
And economists are urging deeper rate cuts by the European Central Bank to halt the decline of the Euro zone economy.
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Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur
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The European Central Bank is working with technology partners on a secret project to embed radio frequency identification tags into the very fibers of euro bank notes by 2005.
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Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker
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While European Central banks have gold reserves, Europeans may be surprised to learn the new Euro has no gold reserves linked with it.
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