AFTER A decade of unprecedented low interest rates, the market is not finding it easy to cope with the very hefty 5% increase in ECB base rates, from a minus 0.5% to the current positive 4.5%. Combined with inflated energy prices, which have not returned to pre-Ukraine war levels, and the disruption to supply lines,… Read more »
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