{"id":629266,"date":"2026-04-25T04:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T04:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/629266\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T04:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T04:23:11","slug":"asias-great-disconnect-markets-boom-as-iran-war-fuels-cost-of-living-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/629266\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia&#8217;s great disconnect: Markets boom as Iran war fuels cost of living crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" style=\"display:block\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/3\/8.png\" alt=\"20260425 BiA K-shape war impact img\" width=\"970\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"FeatureArticleCaption_featureArticleCaption__eXLkj\" data-trackable=\"caption\" style=\"display:block\">Markets in\u00a0Tokyo\u00a0and\u00a0Seoul have hit record highs, while\u00a0in Manila jeepney drivers went on\u00a0strike last month to protest surging fuel costs. Economists warn\u00a0the growing divide\u00a0could\u00a0trigger\u00a0stagflation &#8212;\u00a0slower growth and accelerated inflation. (Nikkei montage\/Source photos by Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7 FeatureArticleTag_featureArticleTag__Icbk9\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/big-in-asia\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Big in Asia<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"FeatureArticleSubhead_featureArticleSubhead__9P3Jq\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mod=\"false\">AI fever lifts stocks to records while Strait of Hormuz closure pumps up oil prices<\/p>\n<p>ANDREW SHARP and RAMON ROYANDOYAN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Markets in\u00a0Tokyo\u00a0and\u00a0Seoul have hit record highs, while\u00a0in Manila jeepney drivers went on\u00a0strike last month to protest surging fuel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[126726,64,63,22675,99,41262,51536,304914,164,19216,67835,5575,3322,171,6900],"class_list":["post-629266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-asias","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boom","tag-business","tag-cost","tag-crisis","tag-disconnect","tag-economy","tag-fuels","tag-great","tag-iran","tag-living","tag-markets","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629266","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=629266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}