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It is Ban's third visit to Japan since he became chief of nfl jerseys the world body in 2007. Ban is also planning to travel to Myanmar after his trip to Japan.
The decision, taken by the governing council of the ECB in Luxembourg, is in line with the broad expectation of economists, who had said the ECB would adopt a wait-and-see attitude before the effect of its massive infusion of credit into the banking system last week becomes clear.
In an unprecedented move to shore up confidence in the financial sector and revive the recession-hit economy, the ECB lent 442 billion euros (623 billion U.S. dollar) in one-year cheap loans to eurozone banks at an auction last Wednesday.
It was the first one-year operation taken by the ECB and marked the bank's biggest-ever liquidity injection.
"This operation at a fixed interest rate of 1 percent is expected to strengthen further the liquidity position of banks and to support the normalization cheap nfl jerseys of money markets and the extension of credit to the economy alongside the other measures of enhanced credit support," Trichet said.
The ECB has put its rate cut on hold since June, before which the bank had lowered interest rates by a total of three and a quarter percentage points since early October 2008.
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