BLOOMBERG今天的报道：
The European Central Bank is set to flood euro-area banks with cheap cash as they flock to its offer of three-year loans today.
欧洲央行向欧洲各银行提供贷款，低息，绝对低息的！
Banks will ask the ECB for 293 billion euros ($384 billion) of the 1,134-day funds, according to the median of 14 forecasts in a Bloomberg News survey of economists. Estimates range from 150 billion euros to as much as 600 billion euros. The money will be lent at the average of the ECB’s benchmark rate -- currently 1 percent -- over the period of the loan. Results are due at 11:15 a.m. in Frankfurt and the loans start tomorrow.
这个贷款利率只有1%，这……是真的！
“This is basically free money,” said Jens-Oliver Niklasch, a strategist at Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg in Stuttgart. “The conditions are unbeatable. Everybody who can will try to get a piece of this cake.”
大家都想分一杯羹，那必须的，毕竟馅饼不是天天有的。
Europe’s debt crisis has increased the risk of government and bank defaults, making institutions wary of lending to each other and driving up the cost of credit. The ECB is trying to ensure that banks have access to cheap cash for the medium term so that they can keep lending to companies and households. In addition to the longer-term loans, the ECB has widened the pool of collateral banks can use to secure the funds.
原来一系列乱七八糟的烦心事使得欧洲有钱的机构都不愿意放贷，使得贷款利率很高，这次欧洲央行一是发挥“我不入地狱谁入地狱”的精神，更重要的是在表个态。
The euro rose for a second day amid speculation the ECB’s loans will spur demand for sovereign bonds. The 17-nation currency gained 0.3 percent to $1.3123 at 9 a.m. in Frankfurt.
欧元也兴奋了一把！