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The Federal Reserve raised interest rates nine times over the last 12 months. This is in response to stubbornly high inflation which is currently at 6% in the US. The European Central Bank in March followed a similar approach, and increased interest rate by half a percentage point to fight inflation which averaged 8,5% across the EU countries. These rates increase confirms that both the US and EU are determined to bring down inflation regardless of the recent Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Signature Bank and Credit Suisse collapse. In other words, the regulators are trying to reassure…
