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Re:US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Ira... by joe_mamba on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @10:30AM (#48108858)
>I can't think of a single way in which the United States came out ahead in the war.

The stock market did, which is amazing if you're the top 10% of asset owners who own 50% of the country's wealth.

>except Russia by heaping sky rocketing energy costs on them

Russia doesn't benefit from this energy spike, since its biggest customers, China and India, have long term contracts that Russia can't just rip and renegotiate to charge spot prices, since they're in a pickle right now and depend on imports to keep the war going while not being able to sell to too many nations so they're stuck watching potential earnings go past them.

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Re:US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Ira... by khriss on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @10:34AM (#48108918)
> Russia doesn't benefit from this energy spike,

No? https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/11/iran-war-russia-putin-t...

  > Data suggests that Moscow has already made billions of dollars of additional 
  > revenue from oil sales because of higher crude prices, as well as the fact 
  > that the United States temporarily rescinded sanctions on Russia to rein in 
  > global costs
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Re:US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Ira... by joe_mamba on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @05:58PM (#48115155)
> > Data suggests that Moscow has already made billions of dollars of additional

What's the data and how many extra billions did the make from China and how much increase is that in %?

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Re:US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Ira... by Ekaros on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @10:32AM (#48108878)
At this point I doubt anything could make stock market go down... It seems that there is no connection to anything but itself.
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Re:US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Ira... by criddell on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @10:56AM (#48109257)
I feel the same.

Why does the market seem so disconnected from the general economy?

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Re:US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Ira... by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @10:33AM (#48108901)
Did the stock market come out ahead? The Dow is about where it was when this started.
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Re:US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Ira... by phainopepla2 on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @10:52AM (#48109185)
The Dow is not the stock market. Look at the total stock market (something like VTI).

That said, it seems that the stock market is doing well in spite of this war, and not because of it. Who knows how long that will last

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Re:US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Ira... by soco on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @11:10AM (#48109483)
They probably had a few stock owners in mind, which came ahead and keep coming ahead with strategically planned transactions placed right before another US major move - all by pure coincidence of course.
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