FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - The European Central Bank kept its key interest rate unchanged at 2 percent, despite worries about growth and the unsettling news of terrorist attacks on the London transport network.
Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said Thursday he did not believe the series of attacks in central London "will have any serious impact'' on markets in the long term, likening them more to the March 2004 bombings in Madrid than the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States.
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