PRESS RELEASE
Monetary policy decisions
22 April 1999
At today's meeting, the Governing Council of the ECB took the following decisions:
- The interest rates on the main refinancing operations, the marginal lending facility and the deposit facility will remain unchanged at 2.5%, 3.5% and 1.5%, respectively.
- For the longer-term refinancing operations to be settled during the next six months, the intention is to allot an unchanged amount of EUR 15 billion per operation.
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