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The European Central Bank, responding to fears of runaway inflation, delivered its first rate hike in 11 years on Thursday — and made it a big one.
The ECB announced it would lift its key interest rates by 50 basis points, or half a percentage point, while also announcing the approval of a a new tool designed to keep yields on bonds of stressed eurozone countries from spiraling to unsustainable levels.
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