How much inflation from Red Sea rockets?

Thursday 18 January 2024

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Global rate cuts lost at (Red) Sea?

Geopolitically induced spikes in commodities or freight costs can be among the most challenging exogenous shocks for markets due to their potential stagflationary impact.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.