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Key figures at a glance
Marginal lending facility	3.75 %
Main refinancing operations Fixed rate	3.25 %
Deposit facility	2.75 %
Effective from 12 November 2008

Online and in real time: ECB press conference, from Brussels, Belgium.

At 2.30 p.m. CET the ECB President and Vice-President explain the Governing Council's monetary policy decisions and answer journalists' questions.

Recently published

01/12/2008 - Press release: ECB decides on the way forward for its new premises, bg . cs . da . de . el . en . es . et . fi . fr . hu . it . lt . lv . mt . nl . pl . pt . ro . sk . sl . sv
27/11/2008 - Press release: Eurosystem and Mediterranean central banks meet for the fifth Euro-Mediterranean seminar, en
26/11/2008 - Press release: ECB Annual Photography Award 2008 - Europe, en
26/11/2008 - Press release: Changes to the temporary expansion of the eligibility of collateral, en
26/11/2008 - Press release: Statistics on payments and securities trading, clearing and settlement– data for 2007 –, en
26/11/2008 - Press release: New banking supervision programme with the Central Bank of Egypt, en
26/11/2008 - Speech: Jean-Claude Trichet: Introductory statement at the press conference on the occasion of the signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the Central Bank of Egypt on a new banking supervision programme, en
26/11/2008 - Interview: Jean-Claude Trichet: Interview to Al-Ahram, en

27/11/2008 - Statistical press release: Monetary developments in the euro area, 85 kB, en

28/11/2008 - Publication: EU banks' liquidity stress testing and contingency funding plans, 884 kb, en
26/11/2008 - Working paper no. 972: Monetary policy and housing prices in an estimated DSGE for the US and the euro area , 1723 kb, en
26/11/2008 - Working paper no. 971: Interactions between private and public sector wages , 1167 kb, en
26/11/2008 - Working paper no. 969: Comparing and evaluating Bayesian predictive distributions of assets returns , 1031 kb, en
26/11/2008 - Working paper no. 959: What drives U.S. current account fluctuations? , 1879 kb, en

29/11/2008 - ECB Law: Decision of the ECB of 17 November 2008 laying down the framework for joint Eurosystem procurement (ECB/2008/17)
OJ L 319, 29.11.2008, p. 76, 65 kb, bg . cs . da . de . el . en . es . et . fi . fr . hu . it . lt . lv . mt . nl . pl . pt . ro . sk . sl . sv
25/11/2008 - ECB Law: Opinion on State guarantees and other measures to maintain the stability of the financial system (CON/2008/76)
Slovenia, 25.11.2008, 41 kb, en . sl