Makes perfect sense if that comment is realted to the prime!
That affects all manner of business. Such then affects the value of those businesses. The pronouncement is not a relection on "economics" so much as a cost of doing business.

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Oh, yeah. This will work.
Why do stock market or currency prices react to a comment made by the federal bank chairman. Ever see the movie The Million Pound Note?