Another month of agony for ECB hopeful Trichet

FRANCE - Bank of France chief Jean-Claude Trichet will have to wait until the end of April to know whether French state prosecutors want him tried over a bank scandal that has hurt his hopes of becoming European Central Bank president reports Reuters.

Judiciary officials said on Tuesday that public prosecutors were not in a position to deliver recommendations by the end of March on whether Trichet and others under inquiry over the early 1990s Credit Lyonnais bank scandal should stand trial.

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