Balance sheets in the low-interest environment: The Big Picture

At first glance, the investment and financing behaviour of European companies has hardly changed in recent years despite artificially depressed interest rates. But this is only half the truth.

There are structural changes in the corporate balance sheets. One major reason is that instead of promoting real investment, the disappearance of interest fires up takeover activities.

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