Economic news and events

The UK headline inflation figure cooled as expected last month, but core inflation proved stubborn, figures from the Office for National Statistics showed on Wednesday.

Annually,...

Next year’s rise in English rail fares will be below inflation, the government has announced.

The Department for Transport said the increase will not be as...

Ireland’s goods trade surplus increased in June from the prior month, according the Central Statistics Office on Tuesday.

On a seasonally adjusted basis, exports rose...

Grocery price inflation in the UK cooled by just over two percentage points to 12.7% in the four weeks that ended August 6, the second...

UK unemployment rose unexpectedly in the three months to June, while at the same time wage inflation accelerated more quickly than expected, figures from the...

UK businesses are being forced to consider selling off property and putting staff pay rises on pause in efforts to cut costs as consumer spending...

The chair of the Oireachtas finance committee has suggested that the bank levy in Ireland should be increased as a threat to the banks for...

The Bank of England says it has resolved a technical issue which shut down a vital system that processes around £1 trillion in transactions every...

The UK’s trade deficit narrowed in June, numbers on Friday showed, with exports largely flat on a monthly basis and imports declining.

Its trade deficit...

The UK economy was more resilient than expected in the second-quarter, seeing quarter-on-quarter growth of 0.2%, helped by a markedly better-than-forecast outturn for June.

According...