The Iran energy shock reverberates across financial markets
War has broken out and no one knows when it will end. Energy costs are shooting up—and with them investors’ expectations of inflation around the world. Traders are rapidly reassessing how hawkish central bankers will need to be to prevent prices more broadly from spiralling out of control. Uncertainty and the threat of higher interest rates are hammering stocks and government bonds, too.
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