Economic Incentives

After many false dawns it finally seems as though there has been a notable increase in ‘core’ retail sales, i.e. excluding the motor trades....

Yesterday’s release by the CSO of the September Retail Sales Index shows that the increases recorded over the past year or so have stalled, ...

The May update of the CSO’s Retail Sales Index doesn’t show a whole lot of movement.  The May readings (though provisional) of both the valu...

The CSO have published the provisional figures for the March retail sales index.  Once the motor trades are stripped out (which have a weigh...

In adjusted terms, core retail sales fell in February but remain much higher than they were at the same time last year. This chart exclu...

Statements from Retail Excellence Ireland provided some contrasting views of the level of retail sales in December.  On December 24th it was...

Today’s release of the November Retail Sales Index has some reasonably positive news (which was also seen in EU data released by Eurostat ...

The CSO have published the September update of the Retail Sales Index .  Excluding the motor trades, the volume index was unchanged in the m...

After heating up in July , retail sales slipped back slightly in August.   Here is the retail sales index excluding the Motor Trades since J...

Among several data releases from the CSO today is the July Retail Sales Index.  The overall index is heavily distorted by the motor trades w...

The Consumption figures in yesterday’s Quarterly National Accounts reflected a trend that was evident from the sharp decline in the retail...

At the time of Budget 2013 back in December the Department of Finance projections indicated that the Consumption Expenditure component of G...

The passing of the legislation for the (Local?) Property Tax and the announcements from the Revenue Commissioners of how they intend to coll...

With December’s retail sales failing to live to the the Xmas hype, today’s release of the January 2013 Retail Sales Index does little to alt...

The CSO have released the December 2012 Retail Sales Index .  There is something missing from the data – the much heralded “surge” in retail...

There isn’t much that goes to plan in the Irish economy but a monthly drop in November’s retail sales after the fillip offered by the digita...