Lagarde Says Supply-Chain Disruption Could Fuel Inflation Again

WATCH: Lagarde says aggressive rate-cut bets cuts aren’t helping policymakers. “It is not helping our fight against inflation,” she said in Daov, Wednesday.Source: Bloomberg
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Supply-chain disruptions are among the risks focusing European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde as she ponders the dangers that inflation could resurge.

The things “I’m watching carefully” are “wage bargaining, profit margins, energy prices, and — hopefully not, but — the coming back of supply bottlenecks,” she told Francine Lacqua at an event at Bloomberg House in Davos on Wednesday. “Those are four key components, which could have a serious impact on the work that we’re doing against inflation.”