Chancellor meets UK supermarket bosses to discuss cost of living

Rachel Reeves will address concerns about price rises and shortages with retailers as energy costs surge

Two-thirds of UK hospitality businesses plan to cut jobs and one in seven will close, survey finds

Sector cites ‘billions of pounds in additional costs’ from new business rates and increase in minimum wage thresholds

US average fuel price passes $4 a gallon for first time in four years amid Iran war

Stocks rally after reports suggest Trump might end the war soon, saying ‘we’re not going to be there for too much longer’

Head of NHS England ‘really worried’ about medicine supplies

Jim Mackey responds to concerns about cost implications and supply disruption link to war against Iran

Investors tell Thames Water to ‘eat humble pie’ over failed takeover and open bids

CK Infrastructure says watchdog should intervene to let other firms bid after KKR pulled out

Unilever’s food mashup is hardly a delectable prospect for shareholders

This ‘growth-led separation’ is an awkward, sprawling deal, far from the clean break some may have wished for

Marmite maker Unilever agrees $44.8bn deal to combine food arm with McCormick

Core focus will be on beauty, personal care and home products after spinning off brands such as Hellmann’s and Pot Noodle

Centuries-old pottery firm Denby set to call in administrators

Almost 600 jobs could go amid higher cost of gas and labour and softening consumer demand

‘There’s no safe place here’: Kuwaiti tanker hit by Iranian drone attack in Dubai port

Dozens of other vessels leave area after drone strike causes fire onboard tanker owned by Kuwait’s state oil company

UK aviation regulator rejects Heathrow’s plans to significantly raise landing fees

Heathrow wanted changes to fund upgrade, but airlines warned cost increases would be passed on to passengers

Oil price jumps to $118 a barrel after Trump comments; cost of filling up family car with diesel passes £100 – as it happened

Full tank of petrol now costs £84, as drivers face more than £500m in higher fuel costs due to oil crisis

Energy bills in Great Britain forecast to hit almost £2,000 a year this summer

Consumers brace for ‘awful April’ and Iran war cost hikes, which have pushed UK’s gas market past three-year highs

Steel bosses warn ‘back door’ loophole in UK trade rules could lead to job cuts and closures

New measures will protect Tata and British Steel but allow foreign pre-made parts into the UK, say industry bosses

‘Something out of the ordinary’: why are Japan’s oysters dying en masse?

A death rate of up to 90%, attributed to warming seas, is threatening the trade in Hiroshima prefecture, which produces most of the country’s farmed oysters

Jim Chalmers claims removing card surcharges will ease cost-of-living pressures. But will you be better off?

The reforms announced by the Reserve Bank on Tuesday will have ripple effects across the whole payments system, experts say