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  • Two hands reach toward stacks of poker chips, with a large explosion in the background

    Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on?

    Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers
  • Stock markets react to Trump's address on Iran war

    Central bank bosses enlist for war game to gauge threat of Lehman-style bust

  • Oil gas and fuel storage units at the Navigator Terminal in Grays, Essex

    Oil price drops below $90 a barrel after Iran says strait of Hormuz is open

  • Customers entering the original Starbucks coffee shop at Pike Place in Seattle

    Employees at first ever Starbucks store seek to unionize amid fight for contract

  • a worker fuels a plane

    Air Canada temporarily suspends some flights to New York and other locations

  • a man in a suit

    Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings to leave streaming service

  • Kevin Warsh, wearing a suit, speaks in front of an orange background

    Senate Democrats move to stall Trump’s ‘absurd’ bid to install new Fed chair

  • A British Airways aircraft refuelling at Palma de Mallorca airport

    Europe has only six weeks’ supply of jet fuel left owing to Iran war, says energy chief

  • Spraying machine working on a green field

    Stakes high as supreme court set to rule on law involving Monsanto’s weed-killing pesticide

In depth

  • close up of a hand holding a gas pump near a car

    ‘A dollar or two increase is devastating’: US readers on toll of rising gas prices

    Guardian readers describe how their lives have been upended by cost hikes stemming from Trump’s Iran war
  • Illustration of Trump in fancy military garb at table with headless advisers.

    Trump’s new budget ignores dying Americans and gives away record sums to the US military

  • Cowboy riding the Wall Street bull

    Welcome to Y’all Street: bullish Dallas aims to steal New York’s financial crown

Around the world

  • Travellers wait in a long queue to pass through the security check at Heathrow

    Can Europe avoid a summer of holiday flight and cross-Channel travel chaos?

  • Mining billionaire Gina Rinehart

    Iron will: Australia’s richest person counts the cost as court orders she share mining millions with rival family

  • An aerial view of a road in a city

    Soaring rents and a four-hour commute: the misery of the Lagos housing crisis

  • Rows of chickens in a Tesco Extra superstore

    UK could face gaps on supermarket shelves by summer if Iran war continues

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