Source: abladvisor.com, Date: 2/29/2024 7:00:00 AM, Article: After a surge in healthy M&A transactions in 2021 following a decade of robust private equity dealmaking due to low interest rates, the transaction market had a marketable slowdown beginning in 2022 when the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates to combat inflation. This slowdown continued through the end of 2023.There is no consensus, but.