At a meeting held on 6 June the Governing Council of the ECB decided that the interest rate on the main refinancing operations and the interest rates on the marginal lending facility and the deposit facility will remain unchanged at 0.50%, 1.00% and 0.00% respectively.
The Central Bank of Malta has just released the main results of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey carried out in 2010. The Survey, the first one to be carried out in Malta, assesses households’ wealth, financing and consumption in Malta, as part of a coordinated research exercise led by the ECB.