Economic news and events

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...

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...

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...

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...

The UK’s annual inflation rate was steady last month, defying expectations of an acceleration, numbers on Wednesday showed.

According to the Office for National Statistics,...

The UK is open to ‘ideas’ of nations seeking to join part of the Aukus trilateral defence agreement, David Cameron has suggested.

The Foreign Secretary said...

Michael Gove is set to intervene in London to push for more developments on brownfield sites in the capital, as part of a wider move...

The UK unemployment rate was lower than expected in the last three months of 2023, and growth in earnings was more robust, data showed on...

The governor of the Bank of England has said that UK banks have emerged from a volatile few years in ‘sound health’, but said the...

The average two-year fixed mortgage rate on the market in the UK recorded its biggest month-on-month fall since December 2022 in February, according to a...