Many concerns about the economic outlook Global Trade: Move away from free trade towards protectionism\tariffs under Trump Slower growth in global trade, weaker export orders, US tariffs impact Chinese economy US Economy: Growing strongly but could slow sharply as fiscal stimulus fades and higher interest rates impact activity. Will become the longest US economic…
Noticeable slowdown in Dublin house price growth Supply metrics offer some encouragement As we head into year end, the dominant underlying feature of the Irish residential property market remains the deficit in supply. However, over the course of 2018, there has been some further improvement in the supply picture. The latest update to the CSO’s…
October was a torrid month for equity markets, and while November saw some pause for breath, the environment for equity investors remains quite difficult, very volatile, and intensely uncertain. The main problem for equity markets at the moment it that the euphoria created by the strong synchronised recovery in the global economy in 2017 has lost…
Macro-Economic Background to Budget 2019 Budget 2019 was the third and possibly the final budget to be presented by Paschal Donohoe in the current Dáil. As was the case with his last two budgets, Budget 2019 did not pose anything like the sorts of challenges and difficulties that his two immediate predecessors faced in framing…
