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Lautenschlaeger says ECB still has room to act: WSJ


    FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank still has room to act and could, for example, start charging banks to park their deposits at the ECB overnight, ECB Executive Board member Sabine Lautenschlaeger said.

    The ECB left interest rates unchanged at a record low of 0.25 percent at its March policy meeting last week and unveiled no other measures to bolster a fragile euro zone recovery despite forecasting low inflation for years to come.

    "We have room left to act. The deposit rate could be negative, for example," Lautenschlaeger told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published on Monday.

    To read the full interview, click on: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303795904579431053341212822?mod=WSJEurope_hpp_LEFTTopStories&mg=reno64-wsj

    (Reporting by Eva Taylor)