Thursday, December 1, 2011

Monday, December 5th Central Banks in Joint Action to Boost Liquidity to Markets

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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Central Banks in Joint Action to Boost Liquidity to Markets

The world's major central banks unleashed coordinated action Wednesday to ease the increasing strains on the global financial system, a move that sent stock markets up sharply.


The European Central Bank, U.S. Federal Reserve
, the Bank of England and the central banks of Canada, Japan, and Switzerland are all taking part in the operation, which is designed to "enhance their capacity to provide liquidity support to the global financial system."

The ECB
said in a statement the banks are making it cheaper for banks to get U.S. dollar liquidity when they need it, starting next Monday.

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They are also taking steps to ensure banks can get ready money in any currency if market conditions warrant.

Stocks surged following the news.
Germany's DAX was trading 4 percent higher as were Dow futures in New York.

The financial system has been showing signs of entering another credit crunch, as Europe's sovereign debt
crisis has shown alarming signs of spreading.

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