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The euro slid to fresh lows against the US dollar and the British pound despite rate hikes from the ECB [money#7].
The slide is the latest sign that higher borrowing costs are failing to prop up the single currency [money#7].
Elsewhere, markets are straining on several fronts at once. Australian home prices are tumbling as tax rules and rate hikes take hold [money#13], and Indonesian stocks continued to plunge as fears of an MSCI downgrade deepened [money#17].
At the same time, Japan's M&A deals have reached an all-time high on the back of foreign buyers [money#2], a reminder that capital keeps moving where it sees opportunity even as other markets strain.
The IMF, for its part, is urging support for poorer nations facing high inflation and war spillovers [money#12].