[Strategist: Oil Price Shock Combined with Weak Employment Puts the Fed in a Dilemma] Jin10 News, March 6 – Seema Shah, Chief Global Strategist at Principal Asset Management, has issued a warning that these employment data are pushing the U.S. economy into stagflation territory. The cooling labor market signals rising economic risks, but it also opens the door for rate cuts, especially as the recent oil price shock complicates expectations for monetary easing this year. She stated: 'The stagflationary tendencies emerging in the macroeconomic backdrop are a troubling development for markets already grappling with an unusually volatile array of negative factors.'