Marketplace · Thursday, August 13, 2026
Aaron McCloughlin of The Conference Board stated that higher energy costs affect manufacturers by increasing material and transportation expenses. Grace Swimmer from Oxford Economics expects these pressures to persist due to the uptick in energy prices at the start of August, with a lag before inflation in sectors like transportation returns to pre-war levels. McCloughlin also warned of the possibility of secondary inflationary shocks.
“Manufacturers, producers of goods have to purchase energy to power, you know, to power their plants.”
“Given the, the uptick in energy prices at the start of August, we kind of would expect to see some of those pressures still remain.”
“There will be, you know, slight lag between energy prices coming down and sort of, you know, further deceleration in that transportation and warehousing sector.”