Post by Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business

Financial decision-makers’ outlooks worsened this quarter amid heightened concern over rising costs and prices, according to the CFO Survey, a collaboration of Duke Fuqua, The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Since the last survey, CFOs added 1.1 percentage points to their firm’s unit cost and price growth projections for 2026. The survey also asked CFOs how their firms would react under a scenario in which oil prices averaged $120/barrel through the end of the year. “While firms that are impacted by higher oil prices have only passed through a portion of the increased costs in the form of higher prices, should oil prices rise further and remain elevated, that pass-through increases to roughly 90%," said Atlanta Fed economist Brent Meyer. #CFOSurvey #Inflation #GDP #CFOs #OilPrices #BusinessOutlook #USEconomy