Strikes in Iran have reignited concerns about oil supply,
inflation pressure, and cross-asset volatility.
How significant are these disruptions, and what are the implications for the global economy?
I'm Allison Nathan and this is Goldman Sachs Exchanges.
Today I'm sitting down with my colleague in Goldman Sachs Research,
Don Stroven, co-head of Global Commodities Research and the head of Oil Research.
Don, welcome back to Exchanges.
Thank you, Alison.
Don, before we turn to markets,
we just want to acknowledge first the very real human cost of any escalation in the region.
Our focus here today is strictly on the economic and market implications.
So with that in mind, Don, the last time we had you on this program,
we were talking about Venezuela and the oil market impacts of those developments.
But clearly, we have had the US and Israel launch over the weekend a military campaign against Iran.
It has killed Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
So how significant are these developments?
Most importantly,
thinking about what is actually happening on the ground in terms of oil infrastructure and supply?
Yeah, so the developments are definitely significant,
especially because flows through the Strait of Hormuz,