_______________________Snowden remains in an airport transit area in Moscow since fleeing Hong Kong last month. The European Central Bank says it plans to keep record-low interest rates for as long as needed to boost the euro currency bloc out of its 18-month long recession. Bank policy makers talked Thursday about cutting the benchmark rate about one half of one percent but left it unchanged.________________________自上月飞离香港后,斯诺登目前仍位于莫斯科一机场的中转区. 欧洲中央银行表示计划长期保持创纪录的低利率,从而刺激欧元区摆脱已持续18个月之久的衰退局面.银行政策制定者在周四谈及关于将基准利率下调0.5%,但目前该基准利率仍未发生改变.
