Today: October 22, 2024
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ECB's Knot: falling interest rates should ease debt burdens

ECB board member Knot appears at a Dutch parliamentary hearing in The Hague
October 22, 2024
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Falling interest rates should ease the pressures created by high government borrowing levels, Dutch European Central Bank governing council member Klaas Knot said Tuesday.

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