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Reuters
The crucial event for many investors this week will be the rate-setting meeting of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt on Thursday, with a Reuters poll showing a majority of economists expecting a cut of a half percentage point, to 2 percent.
Among major monetary authorities, however, the European bank has been among the most reluctant to make sharp cuts in interest rates, in part because of a strong, pre-euro tradition in the powerful German Bundesbank to focus on fighting any sign of inflation.
"It is dominated by northern Europeans," said Gary Dugan, chief investment officer of Merrill Lynch's wealth management arm. "They want to appear very Bundesbank-like."
But with U.S. rates now at 0.5 percent, Britain's and Canada's at 1.5 percent and Japan's at 0.1 percent, the current European rate of 2.5 percent stands out, even after a record easing of 75 basis points last month.