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24/10/2008 12:56
Denmark Raises Main Rate Half a Point to 5.5% to Boost Krone
By Tasneem Brogger
Oct. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Denmark's central bank unexpectedly raised the benchmark lending rate by half a percentage point to an eight-year high, showing policymakers will defend the krone even as the economy teeters on the brink of recession.
Copenhagen-based Nationalbanken lifted the rate to 5.5 percent, it said today. The bank's mandate is to keep the krone pegged to the euro in a 2.25 percent band. In the past week, the krone slid 0.1 percent and on Oct. 13 fell as much as 0.7 percent.
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