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State lends cash-starved banks $10.5 billion

Published: 15 December, 2008, 16:43


Russia’s Central Bank held an auction on Monday to provide liquidity to the country’s ailing financial sector. Banks responded by taking loans of 293 billion roubles (US 1.5 billion) at an interest rate of 12.75 per cent.

 
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