{"id":619861,"date":"2026-09-10T01:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T01:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/619861\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T01:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T01:16:14","slug":"commodity-prices-near-18-year-high-threatening-global-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/619861\/","title":{"rendered":"Commodity prices near 18-year high, threatening global inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/markets\/commodities\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Commodities<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Conflict in Middle East, rising demand and dollar weakness push up prices<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/9.jpeg\" alt=\"20260909N gold bars\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Central banks around the world have increased gold purchases since 2022, contributing to rising prices. (Photo by Miki Kamiyama)<\/p>\n<p>Nikkei staff writers<\/p>\n<p>September 10, 2026 02:56 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; A broad gauge of international commodity prices is approaching its highest level in 18 years, driven in large part by fighting in the Middle East, growing demand tied to artificial intelligence and declining confidence in the dollar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commodities Conflict in Middle East, rising demand and dollar weakness push up prices Central banks around the world&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[263108,72,22041,113,6246,13305,61,1095,60,10684,224880],"class_list":["post-619861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-18-year","tag-business","tag-commodity","tag-economy","tag-global","tag-high","tag-ie","tag-inflation","tag-ireland","tag-prices","tag-threatening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}