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Navigating High Interest Rates: How M&A Dealmakers are Adapting in 2024
While prognosticators try to gauge when the Federal Reserve will lower interest rates this year, thereby making M&A more affordable and increasing dealflow, what became clear at the last Monetary Policy Meeting is that prognosticators must continue to prognosticate. Despite the European Central Bank, the Bank of Canada, and regulators in Mexico, Brazil, Sweden and Switzerland recently cutting interest rates, the Fed declined at its last Monetary Policy Committee meeting.