Thursday, January 6, 2011

06/01/2011: Exchequer Returns - Part 2

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In Part 1 ( here ) I raised couple of specific points concerning the latest official claims over Irish Exchequer returns for December. Here,...
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

05/01/2011: Exchequer returns - part 1

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So the Exchequer returns are out and I will blog on these in detail over the next couple of days with in-depth annual data analysis. In the ...
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05/01/2011: PMIs and employment trends - December 2010

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This is the last post in the series of three covering PMIs. The first two covered two sectors of the economy: Manufacturing and Services . ...

05/01/2011: Services PMIs - December 2010

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Today's data from NCB Stockbrokers on Services PMIs (Manufacturing sector PMIs were covered in the earlier post here ). The trends are g...

05/01/2011: Manufacturing PMIs - December 2010

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Manufacturing PMIs were released earlier this week by NCB Stockbrokers (a truly useful service for all concerned with the Irish economy - se...

05/01/2011: Eurozone growth - January

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For the first post of 2011. So a slightly belated wish to all of the readers: May 2011 be (in no particular order of importance): A prospero...
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Friday, December 24, 2010

Economics 24/12/10: Retail Sales for November

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Retail sales stats were out this week, prompting the usual 'upbeat' comments from the official analysts. Here's an example from ...
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Economics 24/12/10: Forecasting 2010 Trade performance

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As a follow up for the previous post, here are my forecasts for levels of Exports, Imports and Trade Balance as well as Terms of Trade for I...
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Economics 24/12/10: Ireland's Trade Balance

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With a slight delay, here is a deeper look into Ireland's trade performance through October. First - exports and imports in levels: Noti...
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Economics 21/12/10: BofI & Irish derivatives warning from the IMF

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How wonderful is the world of international banks linkages? And especially, how wonderful it can get when regulators are so soundly asleep a...

Economics 21/12/10: Derivatives hole?

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Updated (end of post) The following post is attempting to put some numbers behind a highly uncertain, opaque and completely under-reported s...
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Friday, December 17, 2010

Economics 17/12/10: Q3 2010 National Accounts - part 2

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This is the second post on the QNA data for Q3 2010. Let's take a look at three more dynamic sectoral components of GNP. Services and in...
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