Showing posts with label Irish retail sales. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Irish retail sales. Show all posts
Monday, June 29, 2020

29/6/20: Arithmetic and Retail Sales: Ireland's Case

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Monthly v annual, downside v upside... when it comes to rates of change, COVID19 is a good reminder of how hard, intuitively, arithmetic c...
Friday, August 28, 2015

28/8/15: Core Retail Sales for July: Less of a Cheer, More of a Smile

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With much of hullabaloo around it, the Retail Sales figures for July were published today. The CSO headline on the matter read: "Reta...
Saturday, May 30, 2015

30/5/15: Irish Retail Sales: April

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Some good news on Irish retail sales side for April with latest CSO data showing seasonally adjusted core (ex-motors) sales up 2.65% m/m i...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

30/4/15: Consumer Confidence Boom in April... or Hopium by Pints

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Ah, that slightly delirious Consumer Confidence data from Ireland keeps getting more and more delirious. April reading for the ESRI-compil...
Wednesday, April 29, 2015

29/4/15: Irish Retail Sales 1Q 2015

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As I mentioned in a related post ( http://trueeconomics.blogspot.ie/2015/04/28415-irish-retail-sales-march-2015.html ), covering monthly d...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

28/4/15: Irish Retail Sales: March 2015

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So the Spring Statement ( http://trueeconomics.blogspot.ie/2015/04/28415-there-is-spring-there-was.html ) put quite an emphasis on domesti...
Thursday, April 2, 2015

2/4/15: Irish Consumer Sentiment and Expectations: March 2015

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In recent months, Irish Consumer Confidence Index (officially known as Consumer Sentiment Index and prepared and published by the ESRI) ha...
Friday, March 27, 2015

27/315: Irish Retail Sales: February 2015

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Core retail sales for February 2015 (excluding motors): Value of core retail sales in Ireland rose 0.22% y/y in February, having posted ...
Friday, February 27, 2015

27/2/15: Deflation and Retail Sales: Ireland 2015...

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Deflation harms consumer demand? So Irish retail sales are up 8.8% y/y in volume and 5.5% in value, implying people are buying on lo...
Friday, January 9, 2015

10/1/2015: Irish Retail Sales: November

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Irish retail sales figures for November, published by the CSO earlier this week came in at the weaker end of the trend. Here is detailed a...
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

30/9/2014: Have Irish Retail Sales 'regained growth momentum' in August?

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Yesterday, CSO released latest data on Retail Sales in Ireland for August 2014, prompting some media reports that the data is showing the ...
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

16/9/2014: Allegedly, Irish Consumers Have Pulled Back Spending in August

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It is with some puzzlement that I read the following tweet: Being aware that there has not been any new data on retail sales or consu...
Tuesday, July 29, 2014

29/7/2014: Are Irish Retail Sales Getting Better or Growing by Attrition?

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Ah, so apparently Irish Retail sales are booming at historically record levels of increases. My view is - Retail Sales are rising, not boom...
Saturday, June 28, 2014

28/6/2014: Irish Retail Sales: Q2 data to-date confirms fragile recovery

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In the previous post I covered detailed analysis of Core Retail Sales data for May 2014: here . Now, a quick look at Q2 averages (for 2014...

28/6/2014: Irish Retail Sales Activity: May 2014

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There is a lot of hoopla about Irish retail sales stats released today by CSO. Irish and foreign media and even some analysts are quick to...
Friday, May 30, 2014

30/5/2014: Detailed Analysis of Retail Sales for Ireland: April 2014

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In the previous post on Retail Sales data, I covered Q2 comparatives across the years (http://trueeconomics.blogspot.ie/2014/05/3052014-th...

30/5/2014: That State-Sanctioned Inflation Tax...

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There is much to be analysed in the Irish Retail Sales figures for January-April 2014, updated by the CSO this week. And I intend to do so...