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Hospitality sector already hit by increases to business rates and wages

Repeated cost shocks make a transition to cleaner energy critical

A new infrastructure is being built rapidly to avoid the strategic chokepoint and ensure global energy and food security

US war of choice in Iran risks turning Americans into global pariahs

World’s biggest crude exporter to ask Asian customers for close to $20 a barrel on top of benchmark prices

Also in today’s newsletter: Private equity buyouts slump and Cuba’s solar tech lifeline

Plus, guns and butter redux

March’s hawkish communications in Europe have had the effect of tightening monetary policy

Governments and central banks are out of policy ammunition to contain the economic fallout

After a rare unanimous vote to hold interest rates in March, conflicting approaches are likely at this month’s MPC meeting

Plus, Trump’s Strait of Hormuz deadline nears, NHS doctors set to strike and Taiwan opposition leader visits China

Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead

Continuation of the Middle East war is sapping hopes of a return to more normal conditions after the conflict

What has been the economic fallout from the Trump administration’s tariff crusade?

The situation in the Middle East remains highly volatile

Payroll gains of 178,000 were well ahead of expectations

Figure signals improvement in labour market after string of bleak data releases

Comments by Richard Walker come as UK motorists face £2-a-litre diesel as Iran war drives wholesale prices to 4-year high

Also in today’s newsletter: Hormuz talks and US banks in Paris

After sharp market sell-off, debt investors shift focus from inflation fears to likely damage to economies