absence of new disruptions, energy cost should stabilize and supply bottlenecks should ease christy thompson from d. w 's business departments can explain what all this means. welcome, christie. we know consumer prices in europe at any d, t around the world going through the roof. will this at rate increase? bring them down. yeah, i mean, as you just said, this is a historic decision they've taken now, 1st hike in 11 years. so on that level, it is a little bit unclear exactly what effect this gonna is going to have. it definitely will have an effect, of course, raising rates after such a long amount of time. now what we do know is that this means that borrowing is going to get more expensive for bank. so banks that want to take a loan out from the european central bank there. it's going to cost them or they're gonna pass those costs on the you on a me, anyone looking to get a loan for a house alone for a car, businesses as well, looking to take out loans, those interest rates make it more expensive for them right now. and the logic here is that there's a bit too much cash flowing around in t