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Ezekiel Kemboi of Kenya falls after winning the men's 3,000 metres steeplechase final during the world athletics championships at the Olympic stadium in Berlin, August 18, 2009.
Stock markets in Asia are also down on inflation figures from Japan that show producer price inflation falling to six-year lows.
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Although a rate rise in itself is very unlikely, traders will be watching for how the nine members will vote.
Here's the European share market scoreboard:
UK's FTSE: -1.02%
Germany's DAX: -0.71%
France's CAC40: -0.96%
Spain's IBEX: -1.19%
And this is what's happened to the Euro Stoxx 50, which is an index of Europe's biggest publicly listed companies. It's currently down 1.09%, more or less back to where it started before Wednesday's surge:
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