Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Economics 17/8/10: Another 'success' marks NTMA's foray into bond markets wilderness

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Wall Street Journal blogs have beat me to the analysis of our NTMA results. Four reasons can explain this blogs tardiness: I was doing Drive...
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Thursday, August 12, 2010

Economics 12/8/10: Irish July CPI: Deflation is over, for the State sectors

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“Consumer Prices in July, as measured by the CPI, remained unchanged in the month,” says CSO. Hurrah, the end of deflation then? “Th...
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Economics 11/8/10: Bank of Ireland H1 results

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Bof I results for the H1 2010 did represent a significantly different picture from those reported by AIB, with one notable exception – both ...
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Economics 11/8/10: Anglo saga continues

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For about 24 hours I have resisted commenting on the Anglo latest twist in the capital hole - the EU approval yesterday of additional fundin...
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Monday, August 9, 2010

Economics 9/8/10: Ireland's Construction PMIs

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This morning brought with it another bunch of wonderfully optimistic statements from the Irish 'experts' on business cycles. Let...
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Sunday, August 8, 2010

Economics 8/8/10: Some Tullamore fun

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Per report by RTE today ( here ), our Minister for Agriculture Brendan Smith said that Ireland's agri -food sector "is making a col...
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Friday, August 6, 2010

Economics 6/8/10: Anglo's plans & systemic risks

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Updated Here are some interesting questions (note - just questions for now , on the foot of comments made by Prof Brian Lucey earlier today)...
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Thursday, August 5, 2010

Economics 5/8/10: Russia and wheat prices

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Following the worst drought in 130 years, the unprecedented heat wave and subsequent wild fires, Russia stopped exports of wheat, corn, rye,...

Economics 5/8/10: Service PMIs

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Time to update my earlier post on PMIs - this time with new data on services PMIs. The original post is here . Once again, the data is from ...

Economics 5/8/10: Live Register - up & up, again

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Live register is out today with some poor news: the seasonally adjusted LR rose from 444,000 in June to 452,500 in July (+8,500 mom). This y...
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Economics 5/8/10: Good news - we might be 'one-off' broke?

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Good morning, folks. As a day starter, please take a note: We are bust! Yesterday’s Exchequer returns are a worthy reading on the theme of t...
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Economics 4/8/10:Exchequer July receipts

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Note: Corrected version - hat tip to Seamus Coffey! As promised in the previous post (which focused on the Exchequer balance, here), the pre...
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