Economic news and events

Employment remains lower in the UK than before the pandemic, new analysis shows as Labour accused the Conservatives of ‘failing’ to get people back to...

Social media firms will team up with the National Crime Agency to crack down on people smugglers’ posts encouraging asylum seekers to cross the Channel,...

Business confidence dropped last month, according to a regular survey of companies, while firms also said they intended to hire less than they had before.

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The governor of the Bank of England has backed the City watchdog’s action to ensure interest rate rises are passed appropriately to savers, saying a...

A full year of growth has been recorded by the UK’s new car market, an industry body said.

Registrations of new cars were up by more...

The Bank of England offered little about the path for UK interest rates, but believes its monetary policy is now in restrictive territory, and will...

The Bank of England enacted its 14th successive interest rate hike on Thursday, lifting bank rate by 25 basis points, and the central bank believes...

The UK’s service sector saw slower growth in July, S&P Global data showed Thursday.

The headline seasonally adjusted S&P Global/CIPS UK services PMI business activity index...

Overall private sector activity in Ireland was unchanged last month, despite continued strong growth in the service sector, survey results from S&P Global showed on...

The unemployment rate in Ireland edged down in July, according to figures from the Central Statistics Office on Wednesday.

The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for...