{"id":369971,"date":"2026-04-08T19:11:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/369971\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T19:11:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:11:22","slug":"iran-war-oracle-layoffs-el-nino-worries-whats-keeping-the-world-on-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/369971\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran war, Oracle layoffs, El Ni\u00f1o worries: What\u2019s keeping the world on edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the 2025 tariff period, the market saw a notable divergence where the Euro and Japanese yen actually strengthened against the dollar by 4.73% and 4.13%, respectively, suggesting that trade friction helped strengthen major fiat peers. However, the 2026 <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/news\/india\/west-asia-war-india-activates-helpline-numbers-urges-citizens-in-iran-to-remain-indoors-as-trump-warns-tehran-11775572524618.html\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"West Asia war\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">West Asia war<\/a> is defined by a synchronized decline, with Japan and India, both heavily dependent on oil imports, losing value sharply. The data signals that conflicts are more likely to cause investor pivot toward hard assets than policy-driven disruptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the 2025 tariff period, the market saw a notable divergence where the Euro and Japanese yen actually&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[193651,138,7470,139149,193648,190973,219,11035,5617,9692,193653,111,139,69,25033,193649,193652,193647,193650,9418,185406],"class_list":{"0":"post-369971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence-spending","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-central-banks","11":"tag-climate-risk","12":"tag-currency-volatility","13":"tag-economic-pressures","14":"tag-economy","15":"tag-el-nino","16":"tag-global-economy","17":"tag-global-temperatures","18":"tag-india-outlook","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-newzealand","21":"tag-nz","22":"tag-oil-prices","23":"tag-oracle-layoffs","24":"tag-productivity-impact","25":"tag-stagflation-risk","26":"tag-tech-job-cuts","27":"tag-tech-layoffs","28":"tag-west-asia-war"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}