Economic news and events

UK house prices grew at the same annual rate in March as in February, figures from mortgage lender Nationwide showed on Tuesday.

House prices advanced...

The deposit protection limit for savers if their bank or building society fails could be raised by £25,000 later this year, under proposals being consulted...

The Irish minister for Housing has refused to set out the government’s social housing targets for the year ahead, saying he did not want to...

US tariffs could harm the entire world’s economy, Yvette Cooper has said.

The UK Home secretary reiterated the prime minister’s message that ‘no option is off...

Ireland’s harmonised consumer price index inflation accelerated in March, preliminary data published by the Central Statistics Office showed Monday.

The harmonised CPI rose to 1.8% on-year...

UK mortgage approvals were slightly lower than expected last month, according to numbers from the Bank of England on Monday.

Mortgage approvals totalled 65,481 in...

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump have agreed on the need to ‘keep up the collective pressure on Putin’ during a...

In a shake-up of long-standing travel rules, European nationals heading to the UK will from Wednesday need a mandatory entry permit, which the British government...

The UK ‘reserves the right to respond’ to American tariffs, Keir Starmer has said after US President Donald Trump’s decision to slap a 25% import...

Ireland’s retail sales volumes increased in February with both monthly and annual growth, provisional figures from the Central Statistics Office showed on Friday.

The volume of...