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Yale’s Stephen ****** warns of global volatility, ‘whipsawed’ markets

01 October 2024, *******, Tel Aviv: Missiles launched from Iran are seen in the sky over Tel Aviv.

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Markets are in danger of being “whipsawed” by the combination of regional conflict in the Middle East and rising unemployment in the ******* States, says Stephen ******, senior fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center.

The conflict in the Middle East escalated on Tuesday, with Iran launching a ballistic missile ******* on ******* after its ******** of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and an Iranian commander in Lebanon.

Most ****** markets fell on Wednesday, tracking losses on Wall Street overnight, as investors fretted over rising tensions in the Middle East.

“The markets really will not know where to turn,” ****** said, adding that conflicts in the Middle East are adding to inflationary risks at a time when global central banks are starting to ease monetary policy.

“We are likely to see significant increases in volatility and markets that really are whipped back and forth dramatically,” ****** told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia” on Wednesday.

Oil market impact

The ******* Defense Forces said its troops had started launching new strikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon in response to Iran’s missile ******* Tuesday night.

It ******** to be seen whether there will be lasting effects on inflation, said Stephen Stanley, chief economist at Santander, adding that the oil market will be “affected more significantly” if the tension escalates.

Iran is the third-largest producer among the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, pumping out nearly four million barrels of oil per day, according to the Energy Information Administration. Oil prices had jumped over 5% after the missile strike before tapering to a 2% climb.

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for interest rates

The ******** response to Iran’s attacks “might throw the Fed’s 25-basis-point rate cut off track,” said Kelvin Tay, regional chief investment officer at UBS Global Wealth Management.

The U.S. Federal Reserve projected cutting interest rates by another half point over the next two policy meetings this year, according to the central bank’s so-called dot plot from the September meeting.

Traders are also looking to U.S. payroll data on Friday for more indications on the state of the economy after the U.S. Federal Reserve’s jumbo rate cut in September. A higher-than-expected unemployment rate could prompt the Fed to accelerate the easing cycle to achieve a soft landing.

The unemployment rate in September is expected to come in at 4.2%, according to data of a Reuters poll on LSEG, unchanged from the August figure. The unemployment rate had jumped to near

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in July, a dramatic rise from the five-decade low of 3.4% in April 2023.

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Another factor that could affect the Fed’s rate-cutting pace is how long dockworkers’ strikes at the U.S. East and Gulf coasts will last, Tay said.

Dockworkers at ports stretching from Maine to Texas have gone on a large-scale strike over disputes on wages and threats from automation. It’s expected to disrupt global supply chains and has

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, Reuters reported.

“Any disruption of the port, any work stoppage at the port is going to have a very significant economic consequence and very quickly,” said Peter Tirschwell of S&P Global Market Intelligence, warning that “the longer this goes on, the quicker the economic damage will mount.”

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