Worsening housing shortage challenge for Sweden's central bank
Stockholm
HALF a million people are now in line for apartments in Stockholm. That's a number that's likely to cause nightmares at Sweden's central bank that has been forced to go all out in defending its inflation target.
The worsening housing shortage - exacerbated by record immigration - and surging house prices reveal that deeper financial instability risks lie ahead. The combination of already too-high household debt and negative rates "ma…
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