Federal authorities say the year-long operation focused on the five suspects and had not targeted the broader Occupy movement.

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Just look at the three-year long-term repo operation that the ECB just recently put in place.

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Meanwhile, financial markets have taken a more positive tone in recent weeks, noted Bank of America Merrill Lynch, largely on the effects of the European Central Bank's three-year long-term refinancing operation.

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Chaney, who initially pleaded not guilty to the charges, was arrested in October 2011 as part of a year-long FBI investigation of celebrity hacking that authorities dubbed "Operation Hackerazzi".

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The momentum looks likely to continue, particularly because the ECB will conduct a second offering of three-year loans to banks, known as a long-term refinancing operation, or LTRO, at the end of February.

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As the national car, the Timor will be free from import duties and luxury taxes as long as it has 20% local content after the first year of operation, 40% after the second and 60% after the third.

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The exception is the ECB's Long Term Refinancing Operation (LTRO), which provides banks with three-year liquidity at its main interest rate, currently 1%, against a wide array of collateral.

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