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Tue · 27 Oct 2026

UK Budget Due October 28 as Iran War Drives Energy Costs and Gilt Yields

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UK Budget Due October 28 as Iran War Drives Energy Costs and Gilt Yields

🇬🇧 LONDON — UK's budget lands while Tehran is setting Britain's borrowing costs. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Healey's fiscal headroom is partly set in Tehran. Hormuz disruption feeds directly into UK inflation and gilt yields before he speaks a word. Markets will read his energy choices as London's signal for absorbing sustained war-driven costs. Every point of overshoot on UK borrowing traces back to the closed strait.

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