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Business sentiment plummets in German chemical sector amid Iran war
Germany's chemical industry has been struggling with low order levels since before the war, which has exacerbated the situation, on top of soaring prices for oil, gas and resources, which are key for chemical businesses. "To absorb this cost pressure, companies are planning significantly higher prices," ifo said.
Will the Stock Market Rebound After the Iran War?
Record stock market highs seen over the first six months of the Trump administration were interspersed with pangs of instability driven largely by tariffs. But now widespread uncertainty has gripped Wall Street as the war in Iran concludes its fifth week. Following the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Nasdaq Composite and the S&P 500 slid toward correction territory, where there’s a decline of about 10% or more in a stock index from a recent peak. In recent days, each index sank to its lowest point in months before snapping back sharply on renewed hopes of a de-escalation of the crisis. That pre-war optimism had been buoyed by a powerful mix of strong corporate profits and investments in next-generation technologies, such as artificial intelligence. These and other fluctuations — including more jumps in oil prices after President Donald Trump delivered a primetime address on Wednesday where he said the war would continue for at least another two to three weeks — have raised concerns about whether the recent run of market optimism is beginning to crack, or simply entering another familiar cycle of volatility driven by geopolitical shocks. Markets fall into certain patterns in times of war, said John Bai, a Northeastern University professor of finance. Every headline can jolt the major indices in one direction as investors struggle to parse through the noise and anticipate a return to growth conditions. Northeastern Global News, in your inbox.Sign up for NGN’s daily newsletter for news, discovery and analysis from around the world. “The market doesn’t fear negative news per se,” Bai said. “What the market really fears the most is what we call a ‘second-moment shock,’ which is a fancy way of saying uncertainty.” Modern wars tend to have an immediate, sizable impact on markets in the short term, Bai said. That is often a result of those “secondary” shocks, as conflicts ripple through global supply chains, disrupting energy flows and commodities and driving up input costs across industries. That was the case during Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, which sent oil and natural gas prices surging, choked off grain exports from one of the world’s breadbaskets and fueled a broader spike in inflation that reverberated through global markets. But history shows that war-induced volatility tends to be temporary. The stock market fell an average of just 4% across 30 major geopolitical events since 1939, according to data from ...
Business sentiment plummets in German chemical sector amid Iran war
Sentiment among German chemical businesses deteriorated sharply in March amid the Iran war, according to a survey released by a leading economic think tank on Thursday. The Munich-based ifo ...
Global Economy: Factory input costs soar worldwide as Iran war snarls ...
iStock Global factories grappled with escalating input costs and supply chain snarls in March, fueled by the Iran war. Factories across the world faced soaring input costs and supply chain disruptions in March due to the Iran war as underlying tepid demand threatened to undermine the manufacturing sector 's fragile recovery, surveys showed.
