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    Let's look back at February: inflation increased from 1.7% to 1.9%. The negative contribution from energy prices was smaller in February, but most importantly, core inflation jumped from 2.2% to 2.4%. The increase was seen for both services and goods inflation, and shows that, even before the Middle East conflict began, inflationary pressures had far from fully abated. From here on, things are set to get bumpier again. While we had expected inflation to remain below 2% for most of the year, the risk to the outlook is clearly up due to the war in the Middle East causing energy supply disruptions and soaring energy ... (full story)

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Polimini
Mar 3, 2026 5:49am
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Quoting Momofrmnyc
War leads to higher inflation. History has shown that already.
Europe and Japan should be the major victims because of their dependency on foreign oil.
But the price of oil will rise for everyone and inflation should spread across all the global supply chain, again.
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Momofrmnyc
Mar 3, 2026 7:35am
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Quoting Polimini
{quote} Europe and Japan should be the major victims because of their dependency on foreign oil. But the price of oil will rise for everyone and inflation should spread across all the global supply chain, again.
Yeah pretty much agreed.
Shiham
Mar 3, 2026 5:27am
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no buddy, just few days ago some of ecb also express their worry about disinflation.
https://www.equiti.com/sc-en/news/tr...tion-slowdown/

but some muslim or muslim bias officials are being over concious. but remember Iran's fascist govt. is not muslim rather than terrorist
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Momofrmnyc
Mar 3, 2026 5:31am
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War leads to higher inflation. History has shown that already.
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Mar 3, 2026 7:54am
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