Economic Incentives

A lot of attention has been given to the Irish government bonds held by the Central Bank of Ireland and the benefits that arise from the rec...

The implied 10-year yield on Irish government bonds has fallen below two percent.  And as can be seen in the table below the implied eight-y...

Two point four eight.  Really? It seems so.

There was much talk over the weekend that the Moody’s upgrade of Irish government bonds on Friday was merely Moody’s catching up with the ma...

Here is a snapshot of Irish government bond yields as calculated by this website (go to Live Quotes ⇒ Bonds ⇒ World Government Bonds and se...

This site gives a snapshot of Irish government bond yields at different maturities.

This time last year doubts about Spain were a factor in driving up sovereign bond years for the ‘peripheral’ Eurozone countries.  The Irish ...

As pointed out in the previous post Irish national income statistics are hugely influenced by the MNC presence here.  The figures themselves...

The pattern of Irish government bond yields in the past few weeks has been remarkable.  Here the a six-month chart of the nine-year yield as...

It has been an incredible week for Irish government bond yields.  This table has the indicative yield as calculated by Bloomberg for a repre...

Here is a screen-capture of yesterday’s Daily Outstanding Bonds Report from the NTMA. And here is the equivalent from today’s report . ...

The following image are screengrabs from Bloomberg for the yield on Irish government bonds over the past three months.  The top two are the ...

Bloomberg calculate a number of indicative yields for government bonds at different maturities.  For Ireland they currently provide 1-year ,...

It is now a year since the Irish government bond 9-year yield as calculated by Bloomberg peaked at 15.5%.  As of today it is just under 6.3...

As expected last night’s eurogroup meeting of eurozone finance Ministers didn’t deliver a whole lot in public.   It wasn’t expected to.  All...

After three months with barely a budge the Irish government 9-year bond yield as calculated by Bloomberg jumped back over 7% in the last fe...

Here is the Greek 10-year bond yield as calculated by Bloomberg for the past month. The impact of the ‘default’ finalised last week is ...

A recent look through Bank of Ireland’s preliminary report for 2011 revealed the following nugget of information on page 64: On 25 Janu...

Apropos of nothing in particular the Irish government bond 9-year yield as calculated by Bloomberg finished the day at 6.93%.  This is the ...

Here is a snapshot from yesterday Daily Outstanding Bonds Report from the NTMA. At there closing prices in trades put through the Irish...