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.

Irish house price inflation slowed from an annual rate of around 20% in the second half of 2015 to a 5%-6% range in the first half of last year. 

The EU looks to be leaving the door open for a deal that could avoid some of the major downsides of a ‘hard’ Brexit, writes Oliver Mangan

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Critical commentary about ‘leprechaun economics’ and ‘fake news’ is doing Ireland and its reputation no favours, writes Oliver Mangan