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Byline: By, Tim Hanlon Brits face paying more than £300 more for spiralling energy bills next year with poorer families set to be hit hardest, according to new research. The [...]

Byline: Graeme Wearden block-time published-time 7.52am BST Women's, men's and children's clothing and footwear all rose Shoppers walk through Selfridges department store on Oxford Street, London on the first day [...]

Byline: Phillip Inman The Bank of England said the economic recovery remained on track but warned the outlook remained 'unusually uncertain' after voting to keep its main interest rate unchanged [...]

The UK unemployment rate rose unexpectedly in the three months to December, registering the first increase in almost two years. The jobless rate ticked up to 4.4 per cent, up [...]

UK consumer price inflation jumped to 1.8 per cent in the year to January, from a rise of 1.6 per cent in the year to December, as the slump in [...]

London: UK Parliament has issued the following news release: Analysis of the latest key UK and international economic indicators. Jump to full report >> Economic data published in early 2018 [...]

Byline: Phillip Inmaneconomics correspondent Wages are likely to rise at a much slower rate than forecast by the Bank of England, keeping interest rates at a historic low and undermining [...]

Byline: Katie Allen Andrew Tyrie, the chairman of the Treasury select committee, has redoubled his criticism of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for falling behind its international peers and [...]

Daily foreign exchange trading volumes out of London have shrunk by 12 percent in the past three years to $2.41 trillion, the Bank of England said in its latest triennial [...]

Byline: Katie Allen More evidence that the housing market is slowing has emerged with figures showing a dip in mortgage lending and a Bank of England report pointing to growing [...]

Byline: Hilary Osborne The mortgage price war could intensify over the final three months of the year as lenders attempt to regain market share after significantly reducing the availability of [...]

Byline: Phillip Inman 1 Interest rates are going to stay low for a very long time Current predictions say the Bank will only consider raising rates in 2016, but it [...]

Byline: Devraj Ray The Bank of England has revised up its UK growth forecast from 3.4 per cent to 3.5 per cent this year as unemployment fell to 6.5 per [...]

THE number of Britons claiming unemployment benefit is rising at its sharpest rate since December 1992, as the economy teeters on the edge of recession. Official figures out yesterday show […]

Byline: Roland Gribben The new Bank of England Governor believes it could take three years for the unemployment total to drop from its current level of 7.8pc, but new data [...]

Byline: John Bingham Social Affairs Editor A 'toxic combination' of rising prices and historically low interest rates intended to generate growth have hit pensioners and those nearing retirement harder than [...]

Byline: Tessa Norman The default rate on mortgages increased unexpectedly in the first quarter of 2011, compared to the previous three months, the Bank of England's latest Credit Conditions Survey [...]

LONDON, Sep 17, 2006 (Dow Jones Commodities News Select via Comtex) -- -The prices of goods in the U.K. have risen in the last three months according to consumers surveyed [...]

LONDON, Sep 06, 2006 (Dow Jones Commodities News Select via Comtex) -- U.K. workers saw the growth of their take-home pay fall in August from the peak level of the [...]

Byline: NICK CUMMING-BRUCE in Singapore and ALEX BRUMMER in London COMMENTS by Bank of England governor Eddie George from Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, to the effect that Singapore's report on [...]