{"id":2461,"date":"2026-06-11T13:07:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2461"},"modified":"2026-06-11T13:07:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T13:07:40","slug":"europes-central-bank-raises-rates-to-fight-inflation-from-iran-war-the-fed-to-decide-next-week-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2461","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s central bank raises rates to fight inflation from Iran war, the Fed to decide next week for US"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span>FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) \u2014 The European Central Bank on Thursday became the first major central bank to raise interest rates in response to the Iran war as policymakers around the world including new U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh wrestle with how to confront the inflation fed by sharply higher oil prices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2459\">Your World Cup weather forecast for this weekend\u2019s match at Gillette<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>The ECB\u2019s rate-setting council raised its benchmark rate to 2.25% from 2%, where it had been for a year. The move comes ahead of rate-setting meetings next week at the Fed, the Bank of Japan, and the Bank of England.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Oil prices have risen sharply due to Iran choking off the flow of crude oil through the Strait of Hormuz, the sea passage for a fifth of the world\u2019s oil and fuel products during normal times. Raising rates aims to dampen the consumer price inflation fed by higher costs for products made from crude such as gasoline, diesel fuel, cooking gas and heating oil.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span>Get Starting Point<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><label>Enter Email<\/label><\/p>\n<div><button>Sign Up<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>International benchmark Bent crude was trading just below $92 per barrel on Thursday, up from around $73 on the eve of the war. That has helped push inflation to 3.2% in May in the 21 countries that use the euro currency, above the ECB\u2019s target of 2%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But ECB policymakers must also consider the impact of higher borrowing costs on an economy showing only mediocre growth. That has led analysts to think Thursday\u2019s hike will be a one and done affair, aimed mainly at signaling to financial markets that the bank is determined not to get behind the curve if inflation spirals higher.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Central banks in Australia and the Philippines have raises rates since the start of the war, and attention is focusing now on decisions in larger economies. For its part, the U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to keep its key interest rate unchanged when it meets next week with new chair Warsh, appointed earlier this year by President Donald Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2458\">Red Sox ace Garrett Crochet says lat strain \u2018is a lot worse than what we thought\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Warsh advocated for rate cuts last year and Trump repeatedly attacked Warsh\u2019s predecessor, Jerome Powell, for not cutting borrowing costs deeply enough. Yet with inflation jumping to a three-year high as gas prices have spiked in the wake of the Iran war, even Trump and his officials have started to shift their focus more to a push to keep rates unchanged.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Fed is likely to change the statement it issues after each meeting by removing language that had suggested that its next move would be a cut. That would open the door for a rate hike down the road. Many Fed officials have warned that if inflation doesn\u2019t begin to cool soon, a rate hike may be necessary by the end of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Raising benchmark rates influences what lenders charge throughout the economy, increasing the cost of borrowing money to buy things and thus dampening demand for goods. Higher central bank rates can send interest costs higher for home purchases, investment in new factories, and government borrowing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The ECB may be able to get by with only one or two increases because the inflationary surge may be milder than feared, said Carsten Brzeski, global chief of macro at ING bank.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That is because consumers burned by the post-pandemic spike in inflation are in no mood to pay higher prices, leaving businesses little choice but to swallow higher energy costs: \u201cThe pass-through of higher energy and input prices to final consumption will be limited due to a lack of ability and willingness of consumers to actually pay for these higher prices,\u201d he wrote in an emailed comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=2456\">\u2018Dinged-up\u2019 players should be ready to go when training camp opens in September, and other notes on the Bruins<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span><i>Rugaber reported from Washington.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Central Bank on Thursday became the first major central bank to raise interest rates in response to the Iran war as policymakers around the world including new US. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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