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Mortgage News You Can Use European Central Bank Keeps Rates SteadyBy DAVID McHUGH FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- The European Central Bank kept interest rates steady Thursday and economists say it will likely keep them unchanged until late in the year unless a further steep drop by the dollar threatens Europe's budding recovery. The decision by the bank's 18-member governing council leaves the key refinancing rate at 2 percent, where it has been since the bank made a half-point cut in June. The ECB has signaled that rates will likely be on hold for months as it waits for the economies of the dozen countries using the euro to gain speed. Most economists think its next move will be to raise rates to prevent inflation as the economy heats up. Thirteen of 24 economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires this week predicted the bank would raise rates by year's end. Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet indicated the bank felt it was set for now, saying that current monetary policy was "appropriate," inflation was in check and a recovery appears to be taking hold.
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