41. The Lombard ceiling rate is 5.5 percent. 42. The central bank also cut its Lombard ceiling rate by a half-point, to 4 . 50 percent. 43. The new floor rate is 1.1075 reais against the dollar and the new ceiling rate is 1.1125. 44. The central bank's highest lending rate is the ceiling rate and the lowest rate is the discount rate. 45. The ceiling rate in the Bundesbank's three-tier structure, the Lombard rate, was cut to 5 percent last year. 46. The Lombard ceiling rate was cut to 4.50 percent at that time and has been frozen their since. 47. It also left its floor discount rate at 2.50 percent and its Lombard ceiling rate at 4.50 percent. 48. The ceiling rate is 5.50 percent. 49. The Bundesbank also left its floor discount rate at 2.50 percent and its Lombard ceiling rate at 4.50 percent. 50. That was after the Bank of France increased its ceiling rate two weeks ago to shore up the currency.
