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Middle East conflict drives fuel prices to excruciating levels, with inflation relief nowhere in sight

Middle East conflict drives fuel prices to excruciating levels, with inflation relief nowhere in sight

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September 11th, 2026

Middle East conflict drives fuel prices to excruciating levels, with inflation relief nowhere in sight

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Owing to the surge in gasoline prices triggered by the resumption of hostilities in the Middle East, the United States' inflation rate accelerated its rise last month, bringing to the fore, with just seven weeks remaining until the midterm elections, the issue of the cost of living—the concern that weighs most heavily on the minds of many voters.

䞭東における戊闘の再開に端を発するガ゜リン䟡栌の高隰に起因しお、米囜の前月のむンフレ率は䞊昇を加速させ、䞭間遞挙たで残すずころ7週間ずなった珟時点においお、倚くの有暩者が最も憂慮する生掻費負担ずいう争点が顕圚化した。

According to statistics released by the Labor Department on Friday, last month's consumer price index registered a 3.4 percent increase year on year, identical to the level recorded in July.

劎働省が金曜日に公衚した統蚈によれば、先月の消費者物䟡指数は前幎同月比にしお3.4の䞊昇を蚘録し、これは7月の氎準ず同䞀であった。

If one turns, however, to the month-on-month comparison, price growth has gathered momentum, posting a 0.4 percent rise from July — a figure amounting to fully four times the 0.1 percent observed the previous month.

しかしながら、前月比に目を転じれば、物䟡䞊昇は勢いを増しおおり、7月から0.4の䞊昇を呈したのであっお、これは前月に芳枬された0.1の実に4倍に盞圓するものであった。

Despite the fact that more than five years have elapsed since prices soared amid the economic recovery from the pandemic, inflation continues to remain stubbornly elevated.

パンデミックからの経枈的恢埩の途䞊においお物䟡が急隰しおより5幎䜙が経過したにもかかわらず、むンフレはなおも根匷く高止たりし続けおいる。

Friday's report further intensifies the pressure on inflation-fighting officials at the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) to raise the benchmark interest rate next week, and the cost of mortgages and auto loans may rise over the coming months.

金曜日の報告は、連邊準備制床理事䌚FRBのむンフレ察策圓局者たちに察し、来週の基準金利匕き䞊げを迫る圧力を䞀局匷めおおり、今埌数カ月にわたり䜏宅ロヌンや自動車ロヌンのコストが䞊昇する可胜性がある。

Federal Reserve officials, including Chair Kevin Warsh, have repeatedly intimated that in order to hold the policy rate at its current level, they would need to confirm that the downward trend in inflation is persisting.

FRBのケビン・りォヌシュ議長をはじめずするFRB圓局者らは、政策金利を珟行氎準に据え眮くためには、むンフレ鈍化の趚勢が継続しおいるこずを確認する必芁があるずの芋解を繰り返し瀺唆しおきた。

"The August report released today fell short of corroborating any such fact," said Kathy Bostjancic, chief economist at Nationwide.

「本日公衚された8月報告曞は、かかる事実を裏付けるには及ばなかった」ず、ネむションワむドのチヌプコノミスト、キャシヌ・ボスチャンシッチ氏は述べた。

It is not only gasoline prices that have been rising.

倀䞊がりを遂げおいるのはガ゜リン䟡栌に留たらない。

Last month, everything from household appliances and car repairs to wireless phone services exhibited sharp surges.

先月においおは、家電補品、自動車修理、そしお無線電話サヌビスに至るたでが急隰を呈した。

Nevertheless, economists are apprehensive that the soaring cost of fuel will spill over into other areas of the economy.

ずはいえ゚コノミストたちは、燃料費の高隰が経枈の他の領域ぞず波及するこずを危惧しおいる。

The price of diesel has reached an all-time high exceeding six dollars a gallon, driving up the cost of transporting food and other goods.

ディヌれル䟡栌は1ガロン6ドルを超える史䞊最高倀に達し、食料品やその他の商品の茞送費を抌し䞊げおいるのである。

According to what the latest data suggest, airfare prices recorded a 2.7% increase month over month, while on a year-over-year basis they surged by more than 23%.

最新のデヌタが瀺唆するずころによれば、航空刞䟡栌は前月比2.7の䞊昇を蚘録する䞀方で、前幎同期比においおは23を超える急隰を呈するに至った。

Core prices—the underlying inflation gauge that excludes food and energy, which are susceptible to weather and geopolitical factors—rose 2.4% year-on-year in August, decelerating marginally from 2.5% in July and thereby extending their slowdown to a third consecutive month.

倩候・地政孊的芁因に巊右されやすい食料品および゚ネルギヌを陀倖した基調的物䟡指暙であるコア䟡栌は、8月においお前幎同月比2.4の䞊昇を蚘録し、7月の2.5から僅差ながら枛速しお3カ月連続の鈍化を呈するに至った。

That said, turning to the month-on-month figures, core prices climbed 0.3% from July to August, registering their largest gain since April.

ずはいえ前月比に目を転じれば、コア䟡栌は7月から8月にかけお0.3の䞊昇を遂げ、4月以来最倧の䌞長を蚘録したのである。

The unexpected month-on-month rise in core prices is likely to embolden the Fed officials who have been advocating for rate hikes.

コア䟡栌の予想倖の前月比䞊昇は、利䞊げを掚進しおきたFRB圓局者たちを勢いづける可胜性が高い。

Wall Street investors now put the probability of a Fed rate hike on September 16 at over 80%, according to CME FedWatch, up 10 points since Thursday.

りォヌル街の投資家たちは珟圚、CMEフェドりォッチによるず、FRBが9月16日に利䞊げする確率を80超ず芋おおり、朚曜日から10ポむント䞊昇しおいる。

The Trump administration is striving desperately to counter voters' anxieties over soaring prices and rising interest rates.

トランプ政暩は、高隰する物䟡ず金利䞊昇に察する有暩者の懞念に抗おうず腐心しおいる。

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump pledged that every American adult would receive $5,000 should the Republicans retain their congressional majority.

ドナルド・トランプ倧統領は氎曜日、共和党が議䌚の倚数掟を維持するこずになれば、すべおの米囜成人に5,000ドルを支絊するず公玄した。

That said, this would require congressional approval and risks stoking inflation.

もっずも、これには議䌚の承認を芁し、むンフレを助長する恐れがある。

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is stepping up buybacks of government bonds in an effort to hold long-term interest rates down.

スコット・ベッセント財務長官は、長期金利を䜎䜍に抑え蟌むべく、囜債の買い戻しを匷化しおいる。

The yield on the 10-year Treasury note reached its highest level in roughly three years on Thursday, and on Friday it was still trading at an elevated 4.9 percent.

10幎物囜債利回りは朚曜日に玄3幎ぶりの高倀に達し、金曜日も䟝然ずしお高止たりの4.9で取匕された。

Chris Mitchell, 36, who works in customer service at an auto parts retailer, says he continues to struggle far more than before the pandemic to make ends meet on expenses such as rent and food.

自動車郚品小売店におカスタマヌサヌビス業務に埓事するクリス・ミッチェル氏36歳は、家賃や食費をはじめずする諞経費のやりくりに、パンデミック以前ず比范しお栌段の苊慮を匷いられ続けおいるず述べおいる。

He recalls that before COVID-19 struck, Mitchell would dine out two or three times a week and frequent the theatre regularly, but since then such activities have dwindled markedly.

COVID-19が襲来する以前、ミッチェル氏が週に2、3床倖食を嗜み、頻繁に劇堎ぞ足を運んでいたこずは蚘憶しおいるが、それ以降、こうした掻動は著しく枛少した。

He and his girlfriend own three cars, each roughly twenty years old.

同氏ずガヌルフレンドは、玄20幎萜ちの車を3台所有しおいる。

The rent for the residence he shares with her and her twelve-year-old child has risen by $200 this year, reaching a revised figure of $2,300.

圌女およびその12歳の子ず共有する䜏居の家賃は、本幎200ドル倀䞊がりし2,300ドルぞず改定されるに至った。

It was in order to make the payment of bills more straightforward that he moved into their home.

請求曞の支払いをより簡䟿ならしめんがため、圌は圌女らの䜏たいに転居したのだった。

"It's tough. I need a raise, and in fact I'm planning to ask my boss as early as next week," he said.

「苊しいです。昇絊が必芁で、実は来週にも䞊叞に頌もうずしおいたす」ず圌は蚀った。

He received a raise two years ago, but says that it "no longer goes as far as it used to."

2幎前に昇絊したが、「もう以前ほどは通甚しない」ずいう。

According to a report released on Friday, gasoline prices surged by 3.9 percent between July and August alone, reaching a level more than 27 percent higher than in the same month a year earlier.

金曜日の報告によれば、ガ゜リン䟡栌は7月から8月にかけおのみで3.9の急隰を遂げ、前幎同月比では27超の高倀に達した。

Prices at the pump have been climbing relentlessly, and inflation is likely to have become even more pronounced this month.

絊油所における䟡栌は䞊昇の䞀途を蟿っおおり、今月はむンフレが䞀局深刻化しおいる公算が倧きい。

On Friday, the national average price of gasoline stood at $4.30 a gallon, 7 percent higher than a month earlier.

金曜日の党囜平均ガ゜リン1ガロン圓たり䟡栌は、1カ月前を7䞊回る4.30ドルである。

In addition to the surge in airfare costs, hotel room rates climbed 2.4 percent over the mere two-month span from July to August, and have now reached a level 3.2 percent higher than in the same month a year earlier.

航空刞費甚の高隰に加え、ホテル客宀䟡栌は7月から8月ずいうわずか2か月間で2.4䞊昇し、前幎同月比では3.2の高倀を瀺すに至っおいる。

As for motor vehicle repair costs, they rose 1.1 percent last month alone, and have now registered a 5.2 percent increase compared with a year ago.

自動車修理費においおは、先月のみで1.1䞊昇し、1幎前ず比范しお5.2の䞊昇を蚘録するに至った。

The surge in costs for services such as hotel room rates and wireless plans is likewise bound to plunge many Fed officials into an abyss of anxiety.

ホテル客宀料や無線プランずいったサヌビスに係る費甚の高隰も、倚くのFRB圓局者を䞍安の淵に陥れるこずであろう。

This is because these increases are by no means attributable to the rise in energy prices.

これらぱネルギヌ䟡栌の䞊昇に起因するものでは断じおないからである。

Scott Anderson, chief U.S. economist at BMO Capital Markets, wrote in a note.

BMOキャピタル・マヌケッツの米囜担圓チヌプコノミスト、スコット・アンダヌ゜ン氏はメモに蚘した。

"Analysts and the Fed had expected these price categories to have calmed down by now."

「アナリストずFRBは、今頃たでにはこれらの䟡栌カテゎリヌが沈静化しおいるこずを期埅しおいた」

"The trends evident in the August CPI report do not go far enough to instill confidence that inflation remains firmly on a disinflationary trajectory toward the 2% target."

「8月のCPI報告に衚れた傟向は、むンフレが2目暙に向けお枛速の軌道を堅持しおいるずいう確信を醞成するには至らない」

The wholesale price report released on Thursday revealed a sharp surge in chemical product prices, which is highly likely to have stemmed from soaring crude oil prices.

朚曜日に公衚された卞売物䟡報告は、化孊補品䟡栌の急隰を明らかにしたが、これは原油䟡栌の高隰に起因する可胜性が極めお高い。

Since the prices of clothing and foodstuffs remained unchanged from July to August, they afforded consumers a measure of relief; nevertheless, egg prices came to register a 2.9% increase last month.

衣料品ならびに食料品の䟡栌は7月から8月にかけお䞍倉であったがゆえに、消費者に幟ばくかの安堵をもたらしたものの、卵は先月2.9の䞊昇を蚘録するに至った。

Egg prices nonetheless remain substantially lower than they were in the same month a year earlier.

卵䟡栌は䟝然ずしお前幎同月比で倧幅に䜎い氎準にずどたっおいる。

Many economists and Fed officials have long regarded higher gasoline prices as one of several "temporary" shocks pushing inflation upward, alongside tariffs and surging investment in AI data centers.

倚くの゚コノミストやFRB圓局者は、より高隰したガ゜リン䟡栌を、関皎やAIデヌタセンタヌぞの急増する投資ず䞊ぶ、むンフレを抌し䞊げるいく぀かの「䞀時的」ショックの䞀぀ず長らく芋做しおきた。

For several months, there was an expectation that inflation would gradually decline as the war with Iran moved toward an end and the effects of tariffs faded.

数カ月間、むランずの戊争が終結に向かい、関皎の圱響が薄れるに぀れお、むンフレは埐々に䜎䞋するだろうずいう期埅が存圚しおいた。

Nevertheless, there is scant sign that the war with Iran is abating, and even President Trump has stated unequivocally that gasoline prices will not fall before the midterm elections in November.

しかしながら、むラン戊争が沈静化する兆候はほずんど認められず、トランプ倧統領でさえ、ガ゜リン䟡栌は11月の䞭間遞挙たで䞋萜しないであろうず明蚀しおいる。

Moreover, the trade war that President Trump is waging with Canada, while affecting only a very limited range of imports, serves as a reminder that tariffs remain a latent threat to drive up other costs.

さらに、トランプ倧統領がカナダずの間で繰り広げる貿易戊争は、ごく䞀郚の茞入品に圱響を及がすにずどたるものの、関皎が他の諞経費を抌し䞊げる朜圚的な脅嚁であり続けるこずを想起させるのである。

Mr. Voskanyan remarked, "This is hardly likely to remain an isolated, transient phenomenon."

ボスチャンシッチ氏は「これは䞀過性の事象に留たるものではあるたい」ず述べた。

"It is by no means certain when tensions in the Middle East will subside
 there is a strong likelihood that they will escalate into a protracted conflagration."

「䞭東における緊匵がい぀沈静化するのかは定かではない 長期化する混乱ぞず発展する公算が倧きい。」

In the wake of Friday's report, many economists have come to price in a rate hike at the Fed's next meeting on September 15–16.

金曜日の報告を受け、倚くの゚コノミストは9月1516日のFRB次回䌚合における利䞊げを織り蟌むに至った。

In a closely watched speech two weeks ago, Chair Warsh hinted that he was leaning toward raising rates, yet he stopped short of specifying when he would act.

りォヌシュ議長は2週間前の泚目床の高い挔説においお、利䞊げに傟いおいるこずを瀺唆したものの、特定の時期に実斜するずは明蚀しなかった。

Chairman Warsh, unwilling to divulge his true intentions regarding the next move, has seen fit to preserve a measure of uncertainty in the run-up to the meeting.

りォヌシュ議長は次なる動向に関し自らの内意を露呈するこずを欲せず、䌚合に先立ち盞応の䞍確実性を枩存せしめおいる。

Although the Federal Reserve left its key interest rate unchanged at its previous policy meeting in late July, three officials cast votes in favor of a 0.25-point hike; had that been enacted, the rate would have been raised from 3.6% to approximately 3.9%.

FRBは7月䞋旬の前回政策䌚合においお䞻芁金利を据え眮いたものの、3名の圓局者が0.25ポむントの利䞊げに賛成祚を投じおおり、これが実斜に至っおいれば、3.6から玄3.9ぞず匕き䞊げられおいたであろう。

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