OREANDA-NEWS The war in Iran, which provoked large-scale disruptions in the supply of energy resources and other important goods, hit the United States, accelerating the pace of price growth for American producers to the highest in the last seven months. This is reported by Reuters with reference to data from the Ministry of Labor (Ministry of Labor) The United States.

By increasing the cost of their goods and services, American companies are trying to partially recapture rising costs. The main losers in this scenario are ordinary consumers, whose expenses are starting to grow noticeably.

By the end of February, the producer price index, tracked by the Statistical Bureau of the US Department of Labor, increased by 0.7 percentage points (pp). The pace was the highest since July last year. The index has been growing rapidly for the second month in a row. So, in January, the dynamics was estimated at 0.5 percentage points. From February 2025 to the end of winter 2026, the index increased by 3.4 percentage points.

Earlier, analysts at the US Federal Reserve System (FRS) also drew attention to the acceleration of inflation in the past few months. The war in Iran, according to the American regulator, is likely to maintain the tense price situation in the domestic market. Against this background, the Fed leadership did not lower the discount rate and for the second time in a row left it at 3.5-3.75 percent per annum. By the end of 2026, the regulator expects inflation in the United States to accelerate to 2.7 percent.