Economic news and events

US core personal consumption expenditures grew at a faster rate than expected in December, the US Bureau of Economic Analysis reported on Friday, but gross...

UK borrowing is expected to fall faster in the current fiscal year than anticipated, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said Friday.

The IFS expects UK...

Paris-based energy group EDF on Friday raised the budget for the long-delayed Hinkley Point C nuclear plant in Britain, saying construction costs were now estimated...

Growth in both services and manufacturing sector activity in the UK was stronger than expected in February, which was however ‘another month of steep job...

UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper will meet her US counterpart Marco Rubio for talks in Washington after Britain’s Chagos Islands deal was thrown into fresh...

EDF has revealed that a fall in prices and a prolonged outage at one of its nuclear power stations dragged on UK profits last year,...

The UK public sector reported a record surplus for January, while automotive fuel helped push retail sales higher for the latest three months, according to...

Donald Trump has withdrawn his backing for UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Chagos Islands deal because he has not received UK approval to use its...

Ireland’s annual harmonised consumer price index inflation rate decelerated more than expected in January, data published by the Central Statistics Office showed Thursday.

The country’s harmonised...

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has appointed Antonia Romeo as Cabinet Secretary and head of the Civil Service, praising her ‘determination to get things done’.

The...