ECB Cuts Interest Rates to Record Low as Recession Lingers
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The European Central Bank cut its key interest rate to a record low as the 17-nation euro region struggles to emerge from recession.
Policy makers meeting in Bratislava today lowered the main refinancing rate to 0.5 percent from 0.75 percent, a move predicted by 45 of 70 economists in a Bloomberg News survey. The ECB kept the deposit rate at zero and reduced the marginal lending rate to 1 percent from 1.5 percent to preserve a symmetrical rate corridor. President Mario Draghi holds a press conference in the Slovakian capital at 2:30 p.m.