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As Crisis Mounts, Europe’s Central Bank Stands Back
• cnbc.comThe E.C.B. has a fire hose — its ability to print money. But the bank is refusing to train it on the euro zone’s debt crisis.
The flames climbed higher Friday after the Italian Treasury had to pay an interest rate of 6.5 percent on a new issue of six-month bills — more than three percentage points higher than a similar debt auction on Oct. 26. It was the highest interest rate Italy has had to pay to sell such debt since August 1997, according to Bloomberg News.
But
there is no sign the E.C.B. plans a major response, like buying large
quantities of the country’s bonds to bring down its borrowing costs. The
E.C.B. “is not the fiscal lender of last resort to sovereigns,” José
Manuel González-Páramo, a member of the executive board of the bank,
told an audience at Oxford University on Thursday, a view that has been
repeated by members of the bank’s governing council in recent weeks.
Also, see these article for more details:
Euro Zone May Free Banks From Taking Bond Losses (CNBC.com)
India is victim of Eurozone crisis: Pranab Mukherjee (TheEconomicTimes.com)
