{"id":659416,"date":"2026-03-18T11:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=659416"},"modified":"2026-03-18T11:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:36:21","slug":"rising-crude-prices-may-push-us-towards-recession-warns-moodys-chief-economist-mark-zandi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/rising-crude-prices-may-push-us-towards-recession-warns-moodys-chief-economist-mark-zandi\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising crude prices may push US towards recession, warns Moody&#8217;s chief economist Mark Zandi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the relentless rise in crude oil prices since the onset of the US-Iran war, investors have grown cautious, as oil-led price increases could impact the global economy, with economists now warning that higher crude oil prices could push the world\u2019s largest economy closer to a recession.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Zandi, Chief Economist at Moody&#8217;s, warned that the US economy could tip into a recession within the next 12 months, as elevated crude oil prices add to pressures on an already soft labour market. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the relentless rise in crude oil prices since the onset of the US-Iran war, investors have grown cautious, as oil-led price increases could impact the global economy, with economists now warning that higher crude oil prices could push the world\u2019s largest economy closer to a recession. Mark Zandi, Chief Economist at Moody&#8217;s, warned that the US economy could tip into a recession within the next 12 months, as elevated crude oil prices add to pressures on an already soft labour market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}