The US Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell opted to cut interest rates this week for the first time since March 2020, when Covid was wreaking havoc on global economies. What happens next?
It’s time for stock investors – especially those passively tracking the index – to reduce risk and increase opportunity. We’ll rarely get a better chance.
There was a time when rows between governments and their economic advisers on inflation and spending unfolded in oak-lined boardrooms. Now, they are taking place on social media.
While nominal incomes have risen sharply, the real value of those incomes has increased only slightly. It is the source of our discontent.
Small businesses across the country are facing an existential crisis on many fronts, including state-induced higher costs. Modelling the latest Government announcements on PRSI and grants shows they don't go far enough.
We are seeing a widening dispersion in inflation outcomes between the major economies. It means we are now more likely to see an out-of-step rate-cutting cycle from the major central banks, which has significant consequences for most asset classes.
Housing demand has shifted over the past decade, and yet a large premium still exists for Dublin homes. Remote working may have changed the equilibrium but it won’t make our city housing deficit disappear.
The chair of the State-owned broadcaster and energy company is moving from the challenge of justifying enormous profits to that of plugging large losses.
Irish PLCs are revealing what their businesses looks like in a year when no new virus, variant or war raised its head to disrupt them. It would be very rosy were it not for the stubbornly high interest rates.
Prices, interest rates, profits and wages are re-aligning before our eyes. As always in cases of high volatility, there will be winners and losers.
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