Category: economic growth

The US Federal Reserve has held interest rates steady and signaled borrowing costs are likely to remain unchanged indefinitely.  Moderate economic growth and low unemployment are expected to continue through next year’s presidential election, it said. The decision by the Fed’s rate-setting committee left the benchmark overnight lending rate in its current target range between […]

Irish economic growth set to moderate – Commission The European Commission said today that GDP growth in Ireland is forecast to moderate as support from the external environment weakens and risks, including Brexit, grow. But in its latest quarterly economic forecast, the Commission said that underlying economic activity is expected to remain “robust” on the […]