The closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the wider conflict involving Iran pushed regional fuel and gas costs sharply higher from March 2026. Governments across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) entered that shock with different administered price regimes already in...
Since early March, the US-Iran conflict has disrupted Gulf oil supply, closing the Strait of Hormuz to commercial traffic and taking Brent crude from roughly USD 70 in January to above USD 100 in April. A ceasefire returned prices to pre-war levels in June before a...
The new round of United States tariffs will not add materially to inflation. The 10% Section 122 surcharge lapses today, 24 July 2026, and the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) is finalising a Section 301 forced labour action to replace it at 10%...
UK CPI printed at 2.6% YoY in June 2026, but the composition of that print sits uncomfortably against a broader policy package now working its way through the price level. Services inflation ran at 3.6% in the same month, a full percentage point above the headline...
The oil shock has entered a more complicated phase. Since late February, when the US and Iran conflict began, shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has been severely restricted, cutting the majority of normal Gulf export flows. That disruption constrained the...
The wireless telephone services component of US CPI has been behaving strangely over the past year. The recent behaviour is really two things stacked on top of a long structural trend. The first is a methodology change. From the July 2025 CPI, released in August, BLS...
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