| 41. | The Lombard ceiling rate is 5.5 percent.
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| 42. | The central bank also cut its Lombard ceiling rate by a half-point, to 4 . 50 percent.
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| 43. | The new floor rate is 1.1075 reais against the dollar and the new ceiling rate is 1.1125.
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| 44. | The central bank's highest lending rate is the ceiling rate and the lowest rate is the discount rate.
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| 45. | The ceiling rate in the Bundesbank's three-tier structure, the Lombard rate, was cut to 5 percent last year.
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| 46. | The Lombard ceiling rate was cut to 4.50 percent at that time and has been frozen their since.
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| 47. | It also left its floor discount rate at 2.50 percent and its Lombard ceiling rate at 4.50 percent.
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| 48. | The ceiling rate is 5.50 percent.
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| 49. | The Bundesbank also left its floor discount rate at 2.50 percent and its Lombard ceiling rate at 4.50 percent.
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| 50. | That was after the Bank of France increased its ceiling rate two weeks ago to shore up the currency.
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