Monetary policy decisions
Central bank: ecb | Type: decision | Date: 2000-10-05

PRESS RELEASE
Monetary policy decisions
5 October 2000
At today's meeting the Governing Council of the ECB took the following monetary policy decisions:
The minimum bid rate on the main refinancing operations of the Eurosystem will be raised by 0.25 percentage point to 4.75%, starting from the operation to be settled on 11 October 2000.
The interest rate on the marginal lending facility will be raised by 0.25 percentage point to 5.75%, with effect from 6 October 2000.
The interest rate on the deposit facility will be raised by 0.25 percentage point to 3.75%, with effect from 6 October 2000.
The President of the ECB will comment on the considerations underlying these decisions at a
press conference
starting at 2.30 p.m. today.