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Margin Call
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Rising interest rates see gravity return to financial markets

ANALYSIS: With gravity again applying its traditional force on asset prices, investing may be a harder slog in years ahead.

‘Interest rates are to asset prices what gravity is to the apple.’

Investor Warren Buffett once said: “Interest rates are to asset prices what gravity is to the apple. When there are low interest rates, there is a very low gravitational pull on asset prices.”

He made this comment in reference to the exceptionally low interest rates that persisted in the wake of

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Ashley Gardyne Tue, 22 Nov 2022
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