Economic news and events

Ireland’s manufacturing sector suffered a decline in September as new orders fell at the fastest pace this year, AIB data showed on Monday.

The headline manufacturing...

UK housing market activity ‘remains weak’, mortgage lender Nationwide reported on Monday, with lofty borrowing costs still putting off would-be buyers.

House prices declined 5.3%...

The national living wage is set to increase to at least £11 an hour from next April, with Chancellor Jeremy Hunt expected to confirm the...

Britain’s ruling Conservatives opened their annual conference Sunday, with the party’s chair conceding they were ‘the underdogs’ heading into a general election expected next year...

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has insisted the UK is not a ‘laughing stock’ as he failed to announce a decision on whether HS2 will...

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is under Conservative pressure to cut taxes, with even members of his Cabinet publicly calling for pre-election giveaways.

As the Tories...

The UK Conservative government on Friday announced new plans to ‘support drivers’ and push back on ‘anti-car measures’ as some opposition-led areas move to impose...

The number of mortgages given the go-ahead to home buyers slumped to a six-month low in August, while approvals for remortgaging were at the lowest...

The number of house sales fell by 16% in August compared with the same month a year earlier, according to provisional HM Revenue & Customs...

UK gross domestic product is estimated to have increased by 0.2% in the second quarter of the year, the Office for National Statistics said on...