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Backbone: ECB Talks About Raising Rates
By FakeBen
Created 03/28/2008 - 16:34

European Central Bank council members Axel Weber and Juergen Stark signaled they are ready to raise interest rates if needed to contain inflation even as a global credit squeeze threatens the economy.

The ECB ``will act'' to contain ``alarming'' price pressures if its inflation goal is threatened, Weber said in a speech in Luxembourg today.

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