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Golden Ten Data reported on April 15 that Bansi Madhavani, an economist at Ernst & Young, stated that conflicts in the Middle East and the resulting rise in energy prices have brought a stagflation shock to the UK economy. In the coming months, the UK's overall inflation rate is expected to rise by more than 3.0% year-on-year, while economic growth is forecast to be below 1.0%. She also pointed out that a prolonged energy price shock would increase the likelihood of a recession. Therefore, the Bank of England is unlikely to raise interest rates in response to the direct impact of rising energy prices, but may adopt a wait-and-see approach.

BlockBeats News, on April 15, according to Hyperinsight monitoring, in the past hour, the “buy high, sell low” whale (0x965) closed all its Brent crude oil short positions at an average price of $90.7. The previous position size reached $4.62 million, with a profit of about $80,000. This address briefly left the market for a break after being liquidated for a total of $116 million last month. Recently, it deposited about $470,000 to Hyperliquid, repeatedly opening Brent short positions—a total of eight times—resulting in a net loss of $125,000. Address: 0x9657aa2cd45f2cfe77bef47f026bd835edcd165c

On April 15, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated that Trump's pressure on the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates in order to reduce U.S. debt costs is akin to 'banana republic' rhetoric. Speaking at HSBC's Global Investment Summit, Yellen issued a warning regarding the independence of monetary policy, saying she had 'never seen such a level of threat to the Federal Reserve.' She questioned, 'Does a president of a developed country often express the view that interest rates should be set to lower debt servicing costs?' She added, 'This is common in banana republics.' She noted that managing interest rates for the sake of government budgets has led to 'hyperinflation' in some countries.