81.   On Thursday the policy-making central council of the bank turned its back on concern about a surge of unemployment in Germany by deciding to maintain its key rates unchanged.

82.   On Thursday, the Bundesbank, as anticipated, kept its key interest rates steady at a meeting of its policy-making central council.

83.   On Thursday, the German central bank did not change policy at a meeting of its central council.

84.   Other currencies were broadly steady before the policy-making central council of the Bndesbank held its last meeting of the year on Thursday.

85.   Stock market experts held that the central council of the Bundesbank was unlikely to reduce its key interest rates at a regular meeting on Thursday.

86.   Some of them think the central bank might even cut a key rate at a Thursday meeting of its central council.

87.   Statements by members of the Bundesbank central council last week sparked hopes of an early rates cut.

88.   The analyst said the Bundesbank is expected to keep its key rates steady at a Thursday meeting of its central council.

89.   The Bundesbank central council is to meet on Thursday, but the market does not expect any change in key German interest rates.

90.   The Bundesbank held its discount and Lombard rates unchanged after a meeting of its policy-making central council on Thursday.