{"id":383421,"date":"2026-04-17T01:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/383421\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T01:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:24:09","slug":"investors-are-underestimating-global-economic-impacts-of-iran-war-top-executives-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/383421\/","title":{"rendered":"Investors are underestimating global economic impacts of Iran war, top executives warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investors may be seriously underestimating the global economic impacts of the war in Iran, executives warned Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>US stocks have recovered their initial wartime losses and surged to record highs this week on hopes for a more lasting peace in the Middle East. <\/p>\n<p>The head of the London Stock Exchange said at Semafor World Economy Thursday that markets have adopted a sense of \u201crational complacency\u201d that threatens to \u201ctip over into irrational complacency.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Citadel Securities\u2019 president said there is a \u201cgeneration of investor that really never learned the price of being wrong,\u201d while the head of private equity firm I Squared Capital said the war, which the market is \u201cunderestimating significantly,\u201d will upend supply chains and lead to inflation. <\/p>\n<p>Amos Hochstein, a top energy and national security adviser to former President Joe Biden, argued that the market is underestimating the economic impact of the war, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/04\/16\/2026\/strait-of-hormuz-will-stay-in-irans-control-former-biden-adviser-amos-hochstein-says\" class=\"_linkEmbed_10lxo_29\" rel=\"no-referrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at its own peril<\/a>.\u201d He cited the gap between the spot and futures prices for oil, which suggests that investors are anticipating a quick end to the disruptions caused by the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe market doesn\u2019t really care about low income countries or middle income countries,\u201d Hochstein said. \u201cThey only care about the United States and a few other countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Citadel is a sponsor of Semafor World Economy. Jim Esposito made his comments in an unsponsored editorial interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investors may be seriously underestimating the global economic impacts of the war in Iran, executives warned Thursday. US&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-383421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383421","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=383421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}