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Fed Minutes Show Officials in No Rush to Cut as Iran War Scrambled Outlook
ByColby Smith April 8, 2026April 8, 2026

The conflict in the Middle East has left the Federal Reserve braced for higher inflation, with more officials open to the possibility of rate increases.

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Resurgent Inflation Tests Faith in Fed’s Willingness to Tame It
ByColby Smith and Ben Casselman March 27, 2026March 27, 2026

The war in the Middle East risks worsening an inflation problem that the Federal Reserve has struggled for years to subdue.

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Mortgage Rates Jump Again as Iran War Effects Ripple Through Housing Market
ByGregory Schmidt March 26, 2026March 27, 2026

The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the United States hit 6.38 percent, the fourth increase since the war began.

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Mortgage Rates Highest in Three Months as War Weighs on Housing Market
ByGregory Schmidt March 19, 2026March 20, 2026

Rising energy costs and concerns about inflation have helped lift borrowing costs for a home mortgage for the third consecutive week.

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Higher Oil Prices Could Put the Fed in a Bind as Labor Market Softens
ByColby Smith March 10, 2026March 10, 2026

Investors now expect that the Fed will delay a rate cut until September instead of July, as they had before the war in Iran began.

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Iran war pushes oil price above $90 threatening rise in global inflation
ByGraeme Wearden and Jillian Ambrose March 6, 2026

Reports Kuwait was cutting output pushed up cost of barrel of Brent crude to highest weekly gain since Covid pandemic beganThe Iran conflict has driven the oil price past $90 a barrel to its highest weekly gains since the Covid-19 pandemic six years ag…

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HSBC, Nationwide and Coventry raise rates on fixed mortgages amid Middle East crisis
ByRupert Jones March 5, 2026March 5, 2026

Experts say Iran war could cause energy price shock that pushes up UK inflation, in turn forcing up interest ratesHSBC, Nationwide and Coventry building societies are the first big UK lenders to announce an increase in rates on their fixed mortgage dea…

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