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        <Description>&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Spread betting and contracts for differences should consider that, once again, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England have &lt;a href="http://forex.gftforex.com/public/item/210616" target="_blank" title="interest rates, spread betting, contracts for differences, spread bets, CFDs, spread bets interest rates, spread betting European Central Bank rates, Bank of England"&gt;left their interest rates unchanged&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;Both the &lt;a href="item/210624" target="_blank" title="interest rates, spread betting, contracts for differences, spread bets, CFDs, spread bets interest rates, spread betting European Central Bank rates, Bank of England"&gt;BOE&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="http://forex.fxdd.com/trading-news/5727/forex-trading-ecb-comments-post-rate-decision" target="_blank" title="interest rates, spread betting, contracts for differences, spread bets, CFDs, spread bets interest rates, spread betting European Central Bank rates, Bank of England"&gt;ECB&lt;/a&gt; have to consider the same reasons that kept the US interest rate steady as well:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;ul style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Slowing growth means that hikes to interest rates are impractical.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;Rising inflation prevents cuts to interest rates from being effective for the economy.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;In the end, the best many central banks can hope for is to use rhetoric to influence the markets, while they sit tight and hope inflation moderates and the global economic slowdown comes to an end.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</Description>
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