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(*) Effective from 15 June 2006
Marginal lending facility * 3.75 %
Main refinancing operations
Minimum bid rate * 2.75 %
Deposit facility * 1.75 %
 Past key ECB interest rates
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    18/07/2006 - Speech: Lorenzo Bini Smaghi:  Financial globalisation and integration: What’s next? A forward-looking perspective,  en
  • 17/07/2006 - Speech: Jürgen Stark:  Financial globalisation: Economic Policies in a New Era,  en
  • 17/07/2006 - Speech: Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell:  Preliminary Findings of the Retail Banking Sector Inquiry,  en
  • 14/07/2006 - Speech: Lorenzo Bini Smaghi:  European and Asian Perspectives on Global Imbalances,  en
  • 13/07/2006 - Press release: Biannual information on euro banknote counterfeiting,  cs .  da .  de .  el .  en .  es .  et .  fi .  fr .  hu .  it .  lt .  lv .  mt .  nl .  pl .  pt .  sk .  sl .  sv
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    14/07/2006 - Statistical press release: MFI interest rate statistics,    91 kB,  en
  • 12/07/2006 - Statistical press release: Euro area investment fund statistics,    51 kB,  en
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    18/07/2006 - Working paper no. 654: The German block of the ESCB multi-country model ,  804 kb, en
  • 18/07/2006 - Working paper no. 653: Acquisition versus greenfield: the impact of the mode of foreign bank entry on information and bank lending rates ,  1052 kb, en
  • 17/07/2006 - Working paper no. 652: Consumer price adjustment under the microscope: Germany in a period of low inflation ,  1162 kb, en
  • 17/07/2006 - Working paper no. 651: On the determinants of external imbalances and net international portfolio flows: a global perspective ,  481 kb, en
  • 13/07/2006 - Monthly Bulletin: Monthly Bulletin, July 2006,  1541 kb, en
  • 13/07/2006 - Statistics Pocket Book: Statistics Pocket Book, July 2006,  707 kb, en
 
14/07/2006 - ECB Law: Opinion on the conversion rate between the euro and the Slovenian tolar and on other measures necessary for the introduction of the euro in Slovenia (CON/2006/36)
OJ C 163, 14.7.2006, p. 10,  77 kb, cs . da . de . el . en . es . et . fi . fr . hu . it . lt . lv . mt . nl . pl . pt . sk . sl . sv
11/07/2006 - ECB Law: Opinion on amendments to the regulatory framework of the Central Depository and Central Registry for securities (CON/2006/37)
Cyprus, 11.7.2006,  28 kb, el . en