The Oil Shock Won't Kill Fed Cuts And AI Won't Kill The Jobs: Oxford Economics

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However, Iran has since reversed its decision, and Strait traffic remains at a standstill. \nMay laid out a distinctly constructive case for the U.S.: two Fed cuts still in play this year, a recession probability he calls “pretty low,” and a labor market that he thinks can absorb the AI transition without the mass layoffs Wall Street keeps pricing in.\nDespite the biggest energy shock since 2022, Oxford Economics still expects the Federal Reserve to deliver two rate cuts in 2026, most likely at the June or September meetings.\n“We’re expecting the Fed to largely look through the higher inflation, partly because of its dual mandate, partly because certainly it’s probably a little bit more insulated from the inflation shock,” May says.\nThat insulation is the foundation of the call. \nU.S. gasoline markets are more segmented from global crude than European fuel markets, which transmit oil prices almost directly to the pump. American drivers are hurting, but they are hurting less than European ones, and headline inflation in the U.S. is absorbing less of the Brent move than it would in Germany or Italy.\nThe second pillar is growth. May attached a low probability to a U.S. recession in 2026, a notably more constructive stance than several Wall Street desks that moved their recession odds above 40% during the first weeks of the Iran conflict.\n“The odds of recession — I think it’s pretty low, in the sense that the economy has been growing strongly,” May said. \nFirst-quarter softness does not shake the call. “A lot of that’s down to some sort of temporary factors associated with poor weather and things like that.”\nThe tail risk is real but narrow. “If we see oil prices spiking up to crazy high levels, the U.S. wouldn’t be immune to recession. But that’s a sort of scenario that’s quite an extreme one, and certainly isn’t a baseline,” he said.\nThe third pillar, and perhaps the most contrarian, is May’s view of the American labor market in the age of AI. \nThe pre-war narrative that dominated Wall Street — that AI was already gutting white-collar hiring, that the softness in payrolls was structural, that displacement was imminent — gets pushback.\n“We’ve said for a long while, we’re not convinced that AI is automatically bad news for workers,” May said. \n“In essence, we don’t really think that AI has had much impact on productivity so far in the US or elsewhere.”\nThe logical chain matters. \nFor AI to drive economy-wide layoffs, productivity has to surge, and it has to surge in a way that replaces rather than augments labor. May indicated neither condition is met in the data.\n“Lots of firms that are using AI or flagging AI as a reason why they’ve cut jobs — it may be the case, but it could also be trying to sell a bad news story as a good news story,” May said. \n“If they overhired a couple of years ago and misjudged things, [it’s] much better to say we’re looking to improve efficiency via AI and cut jobs than say we misjudged, and we made a bad mistake,” he adds.\nTwo Fed cuts. No recession. A labor market that holds. \nThe risk to May’s frame is oil. If the ceasefire collapses, if Hormuz closes again, if Brent pushes back toward $110, the insulation thesis thins out and the Fed’s room narrows. \nImage: Shutterstock\nTo add Benzinga News as your preferred source on Google, click here.","kind":"highlight","is_publish_news":true,"is_publish_highlight":false,"is_publish_live":false,"is_publish_wemedia":null,"editions":null,"column":"","sentiment":"0","news_tag":"","news_rank":0,"isVideo":false,"video":null,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":0,"need_auth":false,"need_login_tip":false,"code":"91000000","status":"200"},"commentList":[],"isCommentEnd":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"tenantId":"TBGLOBAL","deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.42.0","shortVersion":"4.42.0","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/2628721972","isCrawlerRequest":true}