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The ECB&#8217;s goal is both to avoid an escalating crisis as banks struggle to pay off maturing debts and to mitigate a sharp pullback in bank lending to customers across ailing European economies&#8230;&#8230;about two-thirds of the loans went to banks in three euro-zone countries &#8212; two in the &#8220;periphery,&#8221; likely Spain and Italy, and one in the &#8220;core,&#8221; likely France or Germany.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href='http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970203986604577252803223310964.html?mod=WSJ_economy_LeftTopHighlights'>ECB Allots \u20ac529.5 Billion in Long-Term Refinancing Operation &#8211; WSJ.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON\u2014The European Central Bank said it handed out \u20ac529.5 billion $712.7 billion in cheap, three-year loans to 800 lenders, the central bank&#8217;s latest effort to arrest a financial crisis now entering its third year. 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