Stocks advanced in Europe and the United States on Friday and US treasury yields rose as investors absorbed a ruling by the US supreme court striking down President Donald Trump’s tariffs, while also parsing a weak GDP report and higher-than-expected infl... See more
When Donald Trump famously announced his Liberation Day tariff assault on the world last April, economists, almost en masse, warned the US economy was headed for a major supply-side shock. It was self-evident, they said, that tariffs of this scale would p... See more
The Government is planning to spend almost 90 per cent of the corporation tax revenue it generates over the next five years, a conference heard yesterday. Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (Ifac) economist Brian Cronin said the Coalition’s recently published ... See more
Just three companies – technology groups Apple and Microsoft and pharma group Eli Lilly – were responsible for almost half the corporation tax collected by the State in 2024. A report by the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (Ifac) estimates that the three US... See more
House prices rose by 7 per cent last year as the stock of available properties remained near a historic low. This was down from an annual increase of 8.7 per cent in 2024 but still well ahead of average wage growth, meaning the purchasing power of buyers ... See more
