The June quarter of 2025 has been a rollercoaster for the financial markets. Investors and policymakers had to deal with a mix of good news and bad – on the one hand, inflation fell, but then a war broke out in the Middle East and to make it even more interesting, Donald Trump introduced a blanket of tariffs on imports on every country in the world.
War in the Middle East
Middle East tensions erupted into all-out war as an exchange of strikes between Israel and Iran in mid-June sent new ripples through global markets. This caused the price of Oil to spike initially before retracing.
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