Eurozone banks are not lending as much. <br /><br />The number of loans to the private sector contracted further in July.<br /><br />The amount lent out was 1.9 percent less than the same month last year. <br /><br />That is a drag on the region's fragile economic recovery.<br /><br />It also puts more pressure on the European Central Bank to maintain its stimulus measures, such as low interest rates. <br /><br />...<br />http://www.euronews.net/
