Loan growth is wilting and a survey by the European Central Bank (ECB) suggests that lending conditions are becoming stricter.

贷款增长低迷，欧洲央行调查显示，放贷的条件也日趋严格。

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The last time the central bank cut benchmark lending rates was February 2002.

央行上一次下调基准贷款利率是在2002年2月。

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None of the big new Zealand Banks currently meets the new threshold, and because longer-term borrowing is dearer, the central bank expects lending costs to increase by 10-20 basis points.

目前新西兰的大银行中没有一家达到这种新门槛，由于长期借贷费用较高，央行预计借贷成本增加10 - 20个基点。

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In between he spoke of helping one-industry towns, raising pension benefits, enticing migr and foreign scientists, building housing for veterans, constructing roads, central bank lending,elimination of counterfeit pharmaceuticals, fighting drug addiction, encouraging sports, laying fiber optic cables, bringing the Internet to faraway regions and GPS systems to automobiles.

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Japanese stocks fell Wednesday, a day after the central bank approved a new lending program to boost the country's stagnant economy.

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That represented a net addition of central bank lending to the banks of 191bn euros (because some banks converted shorter term ECB loans into three-year loans).

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Whether it's the European central bank lending trillions to European banks, or a third bout of quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve, it feels, to many, like these institutions are simply kicking the can down the road - deferring the moment of truth.

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But whether the idea of Italy's debt being "mutualised" (or shared with German taxpayers) via some kind of shield provided by the IMF will appeal to the German parliament and German central bank - which are set against any such central-bank lending to any eurozone member state - seems highly doubtful.

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