Consumer prices rose 2.3 percent from a year earlier, the Office for National Statistics said yesterday. The retail price index measure of inflation dropped an annual 1.2 percent, the most since records began in 1948.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Saturday they were waiting for US forces to escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway where traffic remains strangled as the regional war rages.
Crude prices surged Friday on mounting fears about oil supply disruption during the Middle East war, while equities retreated on poor U.S. hiring data.
Defending champion Galatasaray heads into a high-stakes Istanbul derby against a revitalized Beşiktaş on March 7 in a clash that could either cement its lead atop Süper Lig standings or blow the title race wide open.
