In a move that runs counter to the United States' Fed 600-billion-US-dollar liquidity injection to stimulate the economy the European Central Bank on Thursday kept its benchmark interest rate steady at 1%. This was the eighteenth consecutive month that ECB has frozen its main interest rate.
The Bank of England held UK interest rates at a record low and decided not to pump more money into the economy via quantitative easing (QE). The Thursday decision to make no change to policy comes after recent figures on the UK economy showed good growth.