Central banks are at odds over how to respond to a possible jump in energy prices should the Israel-Hamas war escalate.
While rate-setters have conventionally ignored volatility in the energy markets, central bank heads in Canada and the UK have signalled they would need to address the inflationary risk of higher oil and gas prices.
Tiff Macklem, governor of the Bank of Canada, told the Financial Times that the after-effects of energy price shocks could prove more challenging to control because of the recent wave of inflation — the biggest such leap in a generation.
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