Beyond oil: How the Middle East conflict ripples from fertilizer, to food, all the way to forex
When markets priced in the consequences of the conflict in the Middle East, oil dominated the conversation. The Strait of Hormuz, however, carries far more than crude oil, and a narrow lens on energy…
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