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It started in the summer of last year: for the first time since 2018, central banks raised interest rates to curb inflation. Since then, the rates have continued to rise: the European key interest rate is now at 4.5 percent, the American one at 5.25 to 5.5 percent – values last seen before the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2007/08. The increase was so steep that some market observers were already asking themselves: Is the wave of interest rates likely to collapse again soon?
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