Mitchell Hartman
speaker
165 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6 Apr
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Today's report on the service industry followed another one last week covering manufacturing.
Dan North at credit insurer Allianz Trade says these private sector ISM reports are really important for gauging inflationary pressures in near real time.
And what does the ISM data show?
Jay Hatfield at Infrastructure Capital Advisors explains the mechanism.
It's what Hatfield calls the bleed-through effect, as the cost of producing goods and moving goods and people goes up.
Surcharges for diesel fuel are now being passed along the supply chain.
to businesses and ultimately consumers.
It's not only oil prices driving higher inflation, says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics.
But that's been a slow burn as businesses held off on raising prices amid all the policy uncertainty.
Zandi says the inflation effect of higher crude oil has been almost immediate.
Later this week, we'll get the Consumer Price Index for March and the PCE Price Index for February.
Zandi says based on all the data we have to date...
So I'd buckle up.
For a bumpy ride with no more Fed rate cuts on the horizon this year, I'm Mitchell Hartman for Marketplace.
Most countries are feeling the pain of high oil prices, but Europe and Asia rely most on shipments through the Strait of Hormuz.
Adyam Surovic is a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Governments have encouraged people to drive less and work from home.
But some have gone further, implementing price controls.
Creating a happy little bubble where everything's fine is great for politicians and consumers at first, but it doesn't solve the supply issue.
Katherine Wolfram, a professor of energy economics at MIT, says it makes it worse.
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