Showing posts with label consumer confidence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label consumer confidence. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 26, 2020

26/5/20: COVID19 Impact on Travel and Consumer Demand

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Some dire numbers from Factset on changes in consumer preferences / sentiment through March-April 2020: "According to...
Tuesday, September 12, 2017

12/9/17: Partisan Gap in Consumers' Perception of the U.S. Economy Explodes

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A quick post, H/T @profsufi. Here is a chart from the U of Michigan consumer survey showing an explosion in partisan gap between Democrats...
Thursday, February 18, 2016

18/2/16: Is the U.S. About to Slip into a Recession?

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This is an unedited version of my article for Manning Financial. Final version is available here:  https://issuu.com/publicationire/docs/m...
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...
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...
Monday, June 9, 2014

9/6/2014: ESRI Consumer Confidence Indicator Moderates in May

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Some hopium going out of the market in Ireland: ESRI Consumer confidence for May moderated from sky-high 87.2 in April to 79.4 in May, bri...
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...
Thursday, January 9, 2014

9/1/2014: New vehicles licenses in 2013

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New vehicles licenses for December 2013 were published yesterday, so we can now update figures for full year 2013. In 2013, number o...
Wednesday, January 8, 2014

8/1/2014: Weakness in Retail Sales extended into November 2013

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Retail sales data was out for November 2013 today. Here's the top of the line analysis: On seasonally-adjusted basis, core retail...
Thursday, November 14, 2013

14/11/2013: New Vehicles Licensed: January-October 2013

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So the car sales... they are booming, right? Confidence is up, consumers are back to spending, the worst of Budgetary cuts are behind us, ...
Friday, November 1, 2013

1/11/2013: Irish Consumer Confidence: Handle with Caution...

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Having written just yesterday about Retail Sales for September 2013 (see here:  http://trueeconomics.blogspot.ie/2013/10/31102013-i-am-sor...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

31/10/2013: I am sorry, but Retail Sales did not get any better in September, again...

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With some lag, time to update Irish Retail Sales stats to September data. Instead of going over the usual details of the dynamics, let'...
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Sunday, September 29, 2013

29/9/2013: Irish Retail Sales: August 2013

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Retail Sales Index data was out last week and this is an update on series through August 2013. From the top (excluding motor sales), ...
Friday, August 30, 2013

30/8/2013: Retail Sales Dynamics: July 2013

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Retails sales stats for July 2013 were released yesterday amidst a torrent of data releases for Ireland this week. With slight delay, here&...
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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

31/7/2013: Retail Sales Dynamics: June 2013

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Retail sales stats are out for June and anticipation (based on the booming Consumer Confidence index from ESRI) was for a significant uplif...
Thursday, July 11, 2013

11/7/2013: Consumer Confidence Boost in June

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ESRI/KBC Consumer Confidence indicator for Ireland posted a surprising jump in June compared to May, rising to 70.6 from 61.2. The index is...
Tuesday, July 2, 2013

2/7/2013: Irish Retail Sales May 2013: A View from a Hurricane Shelter

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Retail sales stats were relaxed few days back and I had no chance to update the series until now. So here's the headline analysis for ...