The ECB’s hand in banks’ billion-dollar hedging losses
By Nicholas DunbarDecember 11, 2023
Rising interest rates should be good for banks. The Stoxx Europe banks index recently hit a seven-year high on hopes that 10 successive European Central Bank rate hikes were finally boosting banks’ income. But things are never so straightforward, for one simple reason: hedging.
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