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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Richard Partington Economics correspondent

Escalating Middle East conflict could send global inflation soaring, says S&P

Display of prices at a US petrol station
Brent crude rose to $93 a barrel on Wednesday amid concerns a rise in oil prices could create inflationary pressures. Photograph: RiverNorthPhotography/Getty Images

The global economy risks suffering a renewed inflation shock from the war between Israel and Hamas, a leading credit rating agency has warned, amid growing concern over a sharp rise in oil prices.

Standard & Poor’s, which rates the creditworthiness of governments and companies, said the conflict threatened to compound an already fragile global outlook, as the world’s leading central banks battle inflationary pressures sparked by the Covid pandemic and war in Ukraine.

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