Excerpt from:  European Markets
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April 24, 2008

Libor and the European Stock Market

Spread bets and CFDs on European Stocks
According to some, the Libor is becoming more accurate. However, with that increased accuracy comes a better reflection of the economy. And this could spell bad news for European stock market performance. The Wall Street Journal reports on the Libor:

But it is also bad news, in that an increase in the official Libor then has a contractionary impact on the real economy — again because so many economically important borrowing rates are keyed off of it.
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