Showing posts with label retail sales. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 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, May 15, 2020

15/5/20: U.S. Retail Sales and Employment: Pandemicession

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Data through April 2020 on U.S. Retail Sales is in, so here are two charts: Retail Sales are down 15.08% m/m in April, and down 18.25...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

29/7/15: Retail@Google: Key Trends on Consumer Demand

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Google folks made their Retail@Google event publicly available via videos. Worth listening through on key trends in consumer demand and re...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

14/5/15: The Happiest Deflationary Consumers of Ireland... April 2015 Data.

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Good thing Consumer Confidence is booming in Ireland, cause otherwise we might get a wind that domestic demand for goods and services is g...
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, 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, 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...
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...
Thursday, January 2, 2014

2/1/2014: Economics of Christmas

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This is an unedited version of my Sunday Times column from December 29, 2013. December is the month that economic forecasters learn to...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

8/13/2013: Sunday Times, August 11: Wither Middle Ireland

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This is an unedited version of my Sunday Times article from August 11, 2013. Recent data from Irish retailers, aggregate services indi...
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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...
Saturday, April 27, 2013

27/4/2013: Bars, Pubs, Recession Craic

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I recently watched an Irish comedian (let's keep the names out of this) quip that Irish people are not having that bad of a time during...
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Thursday, June 28, 2012

28/6/2012: Retail Sales for May 2012

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The retail sales figures for May are out and are, as expected, not pretty. The volume of retail sales (i.e. ex-price effects) d...
Thursday, December 22, 2011

22/12/2011: Retail Sales for November

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Ok, folks, RTE is shouting "Biggest Retail Sales Rise Since March" (see link here ) but you do know to turn to this blog to see t...
Monday, November 28, 2011

29/11/2011: Retail Sales for October: Ireland

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Irish retail sales continue on downward trend, with no respite.  I will be updating my exclusive Retail Sector Activity Index in the foll...