Economic news and events

Annual growth in Irish retail sales volumes slowed last month, according to figures from the Central Statistics Office on Monday.

In July, Irish retail sales volumes...

The Bank of England may need to keep interest rates in ‘restrictive territory for some time yet’, its deputy governor said, amid the potential of...

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces another potentially damaging by-election after Nadine Dorries finally handed in her resignation 11 weeks after vowing to go.

The Tory...

The UK competition watchdog has said it will probe land banking by the country’s biggest housebuilders as it identified a number of concerns regarding the...

Ofgem has slashed the price cap on UK energy bills to £1,923 after wholesale energy prices fell further, it announced on Friday.

The energy regulator said...

UK consumer confidence is showing ‘renewed optimism’ against a backdrop of falling core inflation, figures suggest.

GfK’s long-running Consumer Confidence Index improved five points in August,...

Rishi Sunak’s autumn summit on artificial intelligence will be hosted at Bletchley Park, once the top-secret home of Second World War codebreakers.

The UK prime minister...

Workers at an NHS trust have voted in favour of strikes in a dispute over pay and staffing.

Members of Unite at Barts Health NHS Trust...

The UK private sector fell back into contraction in August, survey results suggested on Wednesday, amid a renewed deterioration in the services sector.

The S&P...

The Bank of England on Tuesday warned that rising interest is making it ‘difficult for some medium and large companies to repay debts’.

Higher interest...