Economic news and events

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey on Thursday pushed back on hope that it will soon cut rates, believing there is still some ‘distance to...

The Bank of England maintained UK interest rates at a 15-year high on Thursday, in a slightly less split vote by policymakers, as Threadneedle Street...

Ireland’s unemployment rate edged slightly higher last month, numbers from the Central Statistics Office showed Thursday.

The nation’s jobless rate rose to 4.8% in October,...

The UK Labour party has said it would urgently introduce binding requirements for companies developing powerful artificial intelligence after Rishi Sunak said he would not...

Unions are expecting confirmation of thousands of job losses at the UK’s biggest steel plant.

The board of Tata, the Indian conglomerate that owns the Port...

The UK’s manufacturing sector continued to deteriorate in October, according to survey data on Wednesday.

The S&P Global/CIPS manufacturing purchasing managers’ index posted 44.8 points...

The annual pace of decline in UK house prices eased somewhat in October, according to Nationwide data on Wednesday, as prices rose on a monthly...

Irish manufacturing activity worsened in October, amid a decline in new orders, according to survey results published on Wednesday.

The AIB purchasing managers’ index for the...

More businesses have gone bust in England and Wales in recent months than since 2009 amid the aftermath of the financial crisis, according to UK...

Shop price inflation has eased for the fifth consecutive month to its lowest rate since last August, figures show.

Prices were 5.2% higher in October than...