{"id":528058,"date":"2026-03-09T04:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T04:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/528058\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T04:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T04:08:10","slug":"global-economy-and-super-funds-hit-by-trumps-war-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/528058\/","title":{"rendered":"Global economy and super funds hit by Trump&#8217;s war in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two numbers stand out after a week of the US-Israel war on Iran and a year of Donald Trump\u2019s economic mismanagement: oil is now more than US$100 a barrel, and the US economy lost 92,000 jobs in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or, to use a term from the 1970s, stagflation \u2014 aka rising inflation and unemployment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the wake of the Iran bombing, crude oil futures accelerated Friday with gains of 11% to 13%, then spiking to more than US$100 yesterday. That Trump doesn\u2019t seem to have any particular goal with the attack \u2014 other than perhaps further distraction from the Epstein files \u2014 along with his failure to rule out a dramatic expansion of the war, including sending in troops, has further engendered uncertainty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two numbers stand out after a week of the US-Israel war on Iran and a year of Donald&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,2490,164,5465,2041,19136,59535,4679,4847,5710],"class_list":["post-528058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-donald-trump","tag-economy","tag-inflation","tag-north-america","tag-oil","tag-stagflation","tag-stock-market","tag-unemployment","tag-us-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}