Markets News Afternoon: ECB lends 224 Eurozone banks €97 billion for 12-month period; Time Magazine selects Fed chairman Bernanke its 2009 ‘Person of the Year’
Dec 16th, 2009 | By Finfacts Ireland Business & Finance Portal | Category: News worldwide
Markets news on stocks, currencies and oil; he European Central Bank said today that it had bids from Eurozone banks for almost €97 billion in loans for a year -- the last 12-month facility provided by the ECB. Meanwhile, Time Magazine today named US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke its 2009 'Person of the Year'.