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If we ever needed a reminder of the importance of having a secure supply of affordable energy, this is it. The Middle East is in uproar again. As the US blitzes Iran, the Ayatollahs are fighting back by trying to blow up the world energy supply. Their drones have knocked out half of Qatar’s liquefied natural gas exports and oil tankers daren't navigate the crucial Strait of Hormuz supply route. This is sending our already sky-high energy prices through the roof.The cost of a barrel of Brent crude has soared from $70 last week to $84 today. UK gas prices have more than doubled to 147p per therm. JP Morgan is warning of a “catastrophic” energy supply loss if the war drags on for a few weeks, which it easily could. It’s yet more evidence, if any were needed, that fossil fuels remain at the...

Question à un expert Si le sujet du plafonnement des loyers revient régulièrement dans les débats, à plus forte raison depuis la prolongation de ce dispositif expérimental dans de nombreuses communes ces prochaines années, il ne s’agit pas de la mesure la plus répandue dans les zones tendues. Toutes les communes situées en zone tendue sont sujettes à l’encadrement des loyers à la relocation, moins connu que le plafonnement des loyers, qui est optionnel. Lire aussi | Article réservé à nos abonnés Encadrement des loyers : quel manque à gagner pour les propriétaires bailleurs ? Lire plus tard L’encadrement des loyers ne concerne pas le prix fixé pour louer un bien, mais empêche tout bailleur dont le logement...

Around 26,000 unpaid carers across the UK could be missing out on a combined £182million as a result of the increase in the state pension age. The state pension age marks the earliest opportunity to start receiving state pension and other pension-age benefits from the DWP.For unpaid carers, this means waiting an additional year before they can access the pension-age versions of their existing carer benefits. Carers UK estimates this could create a shortfall of roughly £7,011 during the extra year they must wait. An estimated 26,000 carers who cannot work because of their caring duties will encounter this prolonged wait. This represents approximately £134.82 per week they'll lose compared to unpaid carers who have already reached state pension age.Analysis by Carers UK found that before ...

A group of car experts have named some of the UK's most fuel-efficient used cars (stock) (Image: Getty)As the situation in the Middle East continues to deteriorate following US-Israeli strikes on Iran, British consumers are getting more worried about another cost of living spike.In recent years, the British public has endured several hits to their bank balances, especially following Brexit, during the Covid-19 pandemic, and following the start of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine.These events have had an impact on the price of essentials like groceries and fuel. With that in mind, fuel efficiency could become a major factor in which car a someone buys next. The higher a car’s MPG (miles per gallon) the further it should theoretically be able to go on a tank.Last year, a group of auto...

Premium Bonds savers may want to compare rates (Image: Getty)Premium Bonds savers may be weighing up their options afresh as key changes to the scheme come in next month. From the April draw, the prize fund rate will be falling, as well as the odds of winning for each £1 Bond.The prize rate will drop from the current 3.6 percent down to 3.3 percent, while the odds of bagging a prize for each £1 Bond that goes into the monthly draw will be slashed from 22,000 to one to 23,000 to one. NS&I cut the prize rate three times in 2025, while the odd of winning last went down in December 2024.Michele Teighi, financial expert and founder at investing platform psyfi money, reminded savers that there is no guarantee you will win a prize in the monthly draw. He said: "Premium Bonds don’t offer a ...

Goldie Ghamari, an Iranian-born human rights activist, praises President Trump's decisiveness, equating the regime's fall to Hitler on 'The Evening Edit.' Drone strikes damaged Amazon Web Services data centers in the Middle East, disrupting cloud operations and prompting the company to urge customers to move critical workloads out of the region. AWS confirmed that two of its data center facilities in the United Arab Emirates were directly struck, while a separate strike near a site in Bahrain also caused infrastructure damage. The attacks disrupted power systems and caused structural damage, impairing two of the three data center sites that make up AWS’s UAE cloud region.As a result, businesses that rely on AWS to run their websites, store data and process transactions experienced ...

Check out what's clicking on FoxBusiness.com. Pizza chain Papa John's said it plans to close hundreds of underperforming restaurants in North America by the end of next year. "We have identified approximately 300 underperforming restaurants across North America that are not meeting brand expectations or lack a clear path to sustainable financial improvement, as well as locations where we can effectively transfer sales to a nearby restaurant," Papa John's Chief Financial Officer Ravi Thanawala said last week during the company's fourth-quarter earnings call.Thanawala described the locations as being primarily franchise-owned, more than a decade old and generating less than $600,000 in annual sales (AUVs). He said the majority of the restaurants will shutter by the end of 2027, with ...

CFTC Chairman Michael Selig joins ‘Mornings with Maria’ to defend federal oversight of prediction markets amid a growing legal battle with state regulators. A single digital gambler known only as "Magamyman" walked away with $600,000 this weekend after successfully betting on the U.S. military’s strike against Iranian leadership—and he was not alone. As millions of dollars flooded into controversial prediction markets tied to U.S. strikes on Iran and the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, blockchain investigators say a handful of suspected insiders may have used non-public information to turn the fog of war into a personal windfall.Just before the U.S.-led strikes that rocked Iran early Saturday, Reuters and other outlets reported a surge of "suspiciously timed bets" that generated s...

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Spain refused to allow U.S. to use their bases for the conflict with Iran. President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to cut off trade with Spain, accusing the NATO ally of failing to meet defense spending commitments and refusing to allow U.S. forces to use Spanish bases to support operations related to strikes against Iran. Speaking during a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the White House, Trump said he had directed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to "cut off all dealings with Spain," calling the country "unfriendly" and criticizing its leadership."We're going to cut off all trade with Spain," he told reporters. "We don't want anything to do with Spain." THE ONE SENTENCE IN RUBIO'S MUNICH SPEECH THAT REVEALED TRUMP'S RE...

Former Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Al Thani joins 'Mornings with Maria' to react to Iran’s strikes on GCC nations, warning Tehran has "lost friends" and saying the attacks could push Gulf states closer to the US. U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday as investors eye growing tensions in the Middle East and their potential effects on inflation and global trade. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 403.51 points, or 0.83%. The Dow was down 1,278 points, or 2.6%, at the worst levels of Tuesday's trading session.The Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 dropped 1.02% and 0.94%, respectively. Investors feared that the higher oil prices could fuel inflation and complicate central bank policy decisions already strained by tariff-driven price increases. US ‘SITTING ON SIGNIFICANT PROVE...