Residential property prices increased by 5.6% nationally in the year to January.

Statistics that illustrated backward kick-passes were not as prevalent as has been perceived weren’t enough to save the experimental handpass rule on Saturday.

Petrol prices have hit their lowest point for 16 months, which should please motorists.

The market is full of surprises, and vendors have to pay attention to guide prices, writes Tommy Barker.

The average debt per cow ranges from €368 to €1,337 across the different dairy expansion categories, according to analysis of the Teagasc National Farm Survey results for 2017.

Prices were 0.8% higher in July compared with the same time last year, according to the Central Statistics Office.

Hundreds of workers on Norwegian offshore oil and gas rigs have gone on strike after rejecting a proposed wage deal, leading to the shutdown of one Shell-operated field and helping send Brent crude prices higher.

More than 600 people joined a major consumer switching campaign after broadband and energy price hikes were announced over the weekend, writes Conall Ó Fátharta. 

Britain’s poorest families will face the biggest food price hikes if Brexit happens without the UK reaching a withdrawal deal with the EU, a new report warns.

House prices have increased by an average of €24,000 in the second quarter of the year, with asking prices in the capital up €32,000 since the start of the year.

More than two thirds of Irish motorists have seen their insurance premiums rise by at least 15% year-on-year, with some experiencing rises of over 50%, a new study shows.

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy, the junior health minister, has come under fire from members of her own party over plans to change the sale, advertisement, and price of alcohol.

Crude oil prices advanced, extending the longest winning streak in more than a year, as US crude and petrol inventories declined.

With winter liquid milk price negotiations only a few weeks away for producer groups, unviable base milk prices mean producers would need to secure 55c/l for their liquid milk next winter just to break even.

An Post has announced plans to increase postage rates from next month.

Oil investors are finally buying into the notion that the biggest risk to the price now is supply falling short of demand, rather than from any stubborn overhang of unwanted crude, the options market shows.

British supermarket giant Sainsbury’s yesterday said it was prepared for an escalation of price wars in Britain’s highly-competitive supermarket sector after reporting a decline in underlying quarterly sales.

Oil traded near $49 a barrel in New York, yesterday, as Opec ministers arrived in Vienna for talks after prices rebounded from 12-year lows.

A warning from Marks & Spencer’s new boss of a short-term profit hit from efforts to turn around its clothing business by cutting prices and improving ranges knocked its shares yesterday. 

Together with some of my colleagues I was happy to accept an invitation from our new Minister for Agriculture, Food & the Marine, Michael Creed TD, to meet him in the department last Thursday.

Over the course of 2015, energy prices dropped a stone bringing huge short-term benefits, in the process, to the Irish economy. Over the past few months, however, this trend has gone into reverse.

The IFA is calling on Agriculture Minister Michael Creed to suspend superlevy repayments while milk prices remain below the cost of production.

New Central Bank figures showing falls in the average costs of mortgage rates have done little to silence calls for more aggressive cuts in home loan rates to eurozone levels.

Shoppers are likely to make costly mistakes when descriptions of products force them to think about too many things at once.

Brokerage FCStone, the IFA and other dairy leaders are encouraging Irish co-ops to look at price hedging options to protect farmers against price volatility.

World food prices rose slightly in April, up for the third month in a row but they remained almost 10% lower than a year earlier, the United Nations food agency said yesterday.