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The Central Statistics Office has published an online compilation of significant statistics about the economy and business recorded last year. The report notes that inflation reached a 38 year high in 2022, with the annual rate peaking at 9.2% in October before falling slightly in November. This was based on big increases in energy prices […]

Euro zone producer prices fell month-on-month as expected in November, the EU’s statistics office said today, pulled down by falling costs of energy. The European Union’s statistics office Eurostat said prices at factory gates in the 19 countries sharing the euro fell 0.9% month-on-month for a 27.1% year-on-year rise. The monthly fall was mainly due […]

Flexible working arrangements like those introduced during the Covid-19 crisis are not only good for employees but also boost productivity and potentially a business’s bottom line, the United Nations said today. In its first report focusing on work-life balances, the UN’s International Labour Organization evaluated the effects of working time, working hours and working time […]

Euro zone business activity contracted less than initially thought at the end of last year as price pressures eased, according to a survey which suggested the bloc’s recession may not be as deep as expected. S&P Global’s final composite Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for the euro zone, seen as a good gauge of economic health, […]

The Exchequer collected a record €83.1 billion in tax last year, according to figures published this evening by the Department of Finance. That is €14.7 billion ahead of the previous record set in 2021, an increase of 21.5%. The increase is put down to higher levels of corporation tax, income tax and VAT. The figures […]

Expansion in the services sector picked up in December following four months of slowing growth in a row to push overall activity in the private sector back into positive territory, a survey showed today. The AIB S&P Global Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for services rose to 52.7 from 50.8 in November. It had come close […]

105,253 new cars were registered last year, up marginally on 2021, but down 10% on the pre-Covid levels recorded in 2019. The figures from the Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI) reveal that 15,678 electric vehicles were registered throughout 2022 – up over 80% on the previous year and 355% higher than 2019. Petrol […]

Croatia has switched to the Euro and entered Europe’s passport-free zone – two major milestones for the country after joining the European Union nearly a decade ago. At midnight (23.00pm on Saturday Irish time) the Balkan nation bid farewell to its kuna currency and become the 20th member of the Eurozone. It is the 27th […]

The Covid pandemic led to a reimagining of the concept of work. Forced to stay at home, employees and businesses quickly realised that tasks they had always performed in-person or on-site could be done remotely. Staff who sat in traffic and sat at a desk in an office building all their working lives saw that […]

Bank lending to euro zone companies slowed in November, easing back from the sector’s biggest borrowing binge in over a decade as rising interest rates and a looming recession appear to be taking a toll, European Central Bank data showed today. Lending to businesses in the 19-country euro area expanded by 8.4% in November after […]