The euro has been on a steady upward path against the dollar for much of this year as it climbed from $1.04 in early January to around the $1.20 level by August, writes Oliver Mangan.

It is ironic that just as the UK is preparing to leave the EU, the eurozone has become the fastest-growing economic region in the developed world, writes AIB chief economist Oliver Mangan

THE long period of monetary easing appears to be coming to an end, apart from in Japan.

The June 2016 vote for Brexit has slowed down the UK economy in the first half of 2017. GDP rose 0.2% in the first quarter and 0.3% in the second quarter, down from 0.5% and 0.7% in the final two-quarters of last year, Oliver Mangan.

There were noticeable increases in the age of first-time buyers and the number of young adults living at home with parents in Census 2016, writes Oliver Mangan

Markets had been expecting that Britain’s Conservative government would be returned with an increased majority in last week’s UK general election, with both UK stock and bond markets making gains over the course of the campaign.

Inflation targeting has become the favoured policy framework of virtually all the main central banks in the past couple of decades.

The UK economy performed much better than expected in the second half of last year, in the aftermath of the referendum vote in favour of Brexit.

US GDP growth slowed to just 0.2% in the first quarter of the year from 0.5% in the final three months of 2016, its weakest performance since the opening quarter of 2014.

ECB won’t tighten monetary policy any time soon, writes Oliver Mangan.