...what might happen if they didn't?
'The Bank of England today joined forces with five of the world's most powerful central banks to inject up to $180 billion (£100 billion) into the world's financial system in a concerted bid to ease the funding pressure on international markets.
The US Federal Reserve is lending the Bank of England, the European Central Bank (ECB), the Swiss National Bank and the central banks of Canada and Japan billions of dollars to pump into their financial systems. '
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