Scotiabank Reduces Prime Lending Rate

    TORONTO, April 21 /CNW/ - Scotiabank today announced a decrease of one
quarter of one per cent in its Canadian dollar prime lending rate. The new
rate is 2.25 per cent, effective Wednesday, April 22, 2009.




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