{"id":322674,"date":"2026-03-03T18:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/middle-east-at-war-will-conflict-lead-to-global-economic-collapse\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T18:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:00:10","slug":"middle-east-at-war-will-conflict-lead-to-global-economic-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/middle-east-at-war-will-conflict-lead-to-global-economic-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle East at war: will conflict lead to global economic collapse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/-IESyCuaKGQ\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Middle East at war: will conflict lead to global economic collapse?\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-IESyCuaKGQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The war launched by the United States and Israel against Iran has already rattled the global economy. Gas prices have jumped 30% to a three-year high, oil is surging, tankers are stuck in the Strait of Hormuz and refineries across the region are under attack. Stock markets from London to Tokyo are tumbling, and hopes of interest rate cuts in the UK and US are fading fast.<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>So how serious is this economic shock? What happens if the conflict lasts weeks, as Donald Trump has suggested? And is Rachel Reeves\u2019s newly claimed fiscal headroom about to disappear as energy prices spike?<\/p>\n<p>Matt Frei speaks to our economics correspondent Helia Ebrahimi, and to Dr Neil Quilliam, a leading Middle East energy policy and geopolitics specialist at Chatham House. They explain how this war is reverberating through global markets, the risks to supply routes, the inflation threat, and how governments and central banks might respond.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The war launched by the United States and Israel against Iran has already rattled the global economy. Gas prices have jumped 30% to a three-year high, oil is surging, tankers are stuck in the Strait of Hormuz and refineries across the region are under attack. Stock markets from London to Tokyo are tumbling, and hopes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":322675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128813],"tags":[130398,129402,129367],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-322674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-channel-4-news","tag-launched","tag-states","tag-united"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Middle East at war: will conflict lead to global economic collapse? | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Middle East at war: will conflict lead to global economic collapse? for free, here on News ISC. 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