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TOP NEWS: UK retail sales top consensus with lofty January rise

UK retail sales growth comfortably topped forecasts in January, numbers on Friday showed, in an encouraging reading of an economy which fell into recession at...

Fri, 16/02/2024 - 07:15

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suffers double by-election blow

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has suffered a double defeat at the Wellingborough and Kingswood by-elections, with opposition leader Keir Starmer hailing the results as...

Fri, 16/02/2024 - 06:50

Stormont committee will examine post-Brexit trading arrangements

The Assembly’s new Stormont brake committee will have scope to assess the impact of Northern Ireland being left in regulatory limbo if it diverges from...

Thu, 15/02/2024 - 17:32

UPDATE: UK Chancellor Hunt insists there is ‘light at end of tunnel’

Jeremy Hunt has insisted there is ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ if the UK government sticks to its plan after figures showed Britain’s...

Thu, 15/02/2024 - 11:47

Irish inflation slows annually in January and on harmonised basis

Irish consumer price inflation slowed annually in January from a month earlier, according to the Central Statistics Office on Thursday.

The annual rate of inflation slowed...

Thu, 15/02/2024 - 11:28

UK PM Sunak in double by-election test as nation enters recession

Voters in the UK will head to the polls in two by-elections that could give an indication of the scale of the challenges facing the...

Thu, 15/02/2024 - 09:05

UK trade deficit slims in December as both exports and imports fall

The UK’s trade deficit narrowed slightly at the end of last year, numbers on Thursday showed, as imports fell faster than exports.

According to the...

Thu, 15/02/2024 - 08:16

TOP NEWS: UK slips to recession as economy falls 0.3% in final quarter

The UK economy suffered a sharper than expected decline in the final quarter of last year, entering a technical recession, according to numbers from the...

Thu, 15/02/2024 - 07:20

Economy has turned corner, UK PM Sunak tells 2024 Business Council

The UK prime minister has insisted the ‘economy has turned the corner’ as he convened the first meeting of his 2024 Business Council.

Rishi Sunak labelled...

Wed, 14/02/2024 - 10:43

TOP NEWS: UK house prices round off 2023 with decline - ONS

UK house prices declined annually at the end of last year, the official Office for National Statistics measure showed Wednesday.

The ONS said the average...

Wed, 14/02/2024 - 10:10

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