{"id":1031411,"date":"2026-08-27T08:25:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031411"},"modified":"2026-08-27T08:41:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T03:11:30","slug":"ai-boom-is-cushioning-iran-war-shock-but-imf-warns-oil-prices-could-reignite-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/27\/ai-boom-is-cushioning-iran-war-shock-but-imf-warns-oil-prices-could-reignite-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"AI boom is cushioning Iran war shock, but IMF warns oil prices could reignite inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The global economy has absorbed the economic shock from the war in the Middle East better than the International Monetary Fund initially expected, but the cushion could weaken if oil prices rise again. <\/p>\n<p>IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva said strong investment in artificial intelligence and data centres, particularly in the United States, has supported corporate earnings and consumer spending even as the conflict disrupts energy markets. She described the global economy as being caught in a \u201ctug of war\u201d between the energy shock and the AI investment cycle, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The global economy has absorbed the economic shock from the war in the Middle East better than the International Monetary Fund initially expected, but the cushion could weaken if oil prices rise again. IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva said strong investment in artificial intelligence and data centres, particularly in the United States, has supported corporate earnings and consumer spending even as the conflict disrupts energy markets. She described the global economy as being caught in a \u201ctug of war\u201d between the energy shock and the AI investment cycle, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031432,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031411\/revisions\/1031432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}