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The digital bank Monzo has been accused of overstepping the mark by using the data it holds to tell one customer with a past eating disorder that she eats a lot of fast food,…

The stock market’s never dull, but it feels especially volatile at the moment. A rapidly-evolving situation in the Middle East means share prices are moving even more violently than usual.

Sharp declines…

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Airline executives are cautioning travelers that airfares may soar as jet fuel prices surge due to the war in Iran.

Commuters already feeling strain at the gas pump say the possibility of higher ticket prices adds new…

US mortgage rates this year have sunk to their lowest level in more than three years and could unlock more consumer demand in a housing sector that has faced falling affordability.

But tepid early-year housing demand has left polyvinyl chloride…

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MARIETTA/NEW YORK – US retail gasoline and diesel prices are soaring as the

US-Israel war with Iran

constrains oil and fuel exports, which could be a political test for US President Donald Trump’s Republican Party…

Iran war sends US crude futures up 12% a barrel

US-Iran Conflict Drives Oil Price Surge

By Erwin Seba

HOUSTON, March 6 (Reuters) – U.S. crude futures climbed 12% on Friday due to disruptions to global oil supplies because of the expanding…

Over the long run, Wall Street is, arguably, the world’s greatest wealth creator. The benchmark S&P 500 (^GSPC 1.33%) has never declined over any rolling 20-year period, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI 0.95%) and Nasdaq Composite (

By Nicole Jao, Jayla Whitfield-Anderson and Rich McKay

MARIETTA/NEW YORK, March 6 (Reuters) – U.S. retail gasoline and diesel prices are soaring as the U.S.-Israel war with Iran constrains oil and fuel exports, which could be a political…

As the United States and Israel’s war on Iran unfolds over the coming days and weeks, the scale of the fallout for the global economy will be measured at the petrol pump.

The biggest threat the conflict poses to global economic health lies in…

Prof David Rooney, from Queen’s University Belfast’s School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, researches energy systems.

He said the gas industry in Great Britain has much more history behind it, while Northern Ireland was slow to catch up.

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