David Brancaccio

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We hear from many experts trying to beat the market.

Today, the man who's warned for half a century that it can't be done.

I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles.

First, we'll get a look today at how conflict in the Middle East, blocking oil shipments and raising energy prices, is shaping U.S.

inflation.

Marketplace's Nancy Marshall-Genzer is watching for the March Consumer Price Index.

To be clear, the big route for oil, the Strait of Hormuz, is still closed, and oil is up slightly this morning, $97.86 a barrel.

It was $67 before the U.S.

and Israel launched against Iran.

Stock index futures are little changed ahead of that inflation data.

Today's my last day hosting the Marketplace Morning Report here.

But first, a last interview.