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With 2024 very likely to be an election year in the UK, the government would like Britons to feel more confident in the future. However, UK consumers continue to demonstrate a negative outlook on the economy and spending. The aspect expected to fare...

The weeks since Simon Harris was elected as party leader for Fine Gael and voted in as Taoiseach has seen several very early pre-budgets kites being flown on possible giveaways by both Fine Gael and Fianna Fail.
The result of this early kite flying however has not been particularly positive for either of the main government parties.  Fine Gael do see a marginal gain of 1% in the last month, but given the major events the party has seen in that time, with Simon...

Irish consumers remain downbeat and this is likely to manifest itself in subdued spend activity and slower economic growth over the coming months
The RED C Consumer Mood experiences a very slight improvement this quarter, with a reading of -31 in April 2024, a four point increase from the previous wave in January. The mood is especially low among the “squeezed middle”, particularly: women; those...

It is mind blowing how much the world has been through in the past 10 years.  If the past decade was a book, it would be a large chapter indeed.
Just think about it.
Trump and Brexit (2016), then the Covid pandemic (2020-2022), Russia’s invasion and war in Ukraine (February 2022), energy and cost of living crisis, the Hamas terror attack on Israel (October 2023), and now an Israeli invasion and war in Gaza (October...