Production levels from Ireland’s manufacturing sector increased by 0.2% on a monthly level and by 0.1% year-on-year in February, according to latest CSO data.

The growth in business activity within the country’s services-related industries slowed for the second consecutive month in March, according to fresh data published yesterday.

Irish manufacturing contracted for the first time in over a year last month, and the eurozone’s problems led to the sharpest contraction in new export orders since Aug 2009, a survey showed yesterday.

Growth in the country’s manufacturing activity recovered from a nine-month low in February, extending the expansion in the sector to 12 months even as most of the eurozone continues to contract, a survey showed yesterday.

The value of Irish goods exports hit a 10-year high of €92bn, in 2012, according to provisional end-of-year data from the CSO.

Ireland’s debt agency may seek to sell a syndicated bond through banks as early as next week after the Government’s borrowing costs fell in the wake of an accord to ease its bank bailout burden, analysts said.

Employment levels are on the rise in the services industry here in Ireland, according to figures released today.

Ireland’s seasonally adjusted trade surplus soared by 32% to just under €4.3bn in November — the third consecutive month where a rise was evident and the biggest increase since last August.

For the tenth month in a row the manufacturing sector continued to grow, but the engine of the Irish recovery looks to be running low on steam.

House prices may still be almost 50% lower than at their peak in 2007, but last month saw the first rise of more than 1% in prices since Dec 2006.

Ireland’s seasonally adjusted trade surplus fell by 41%, to €2.9bn, in September — marking the first time the monthly surplus has been below the €3bn mark since last December.

Manufacturing sector activity here grew for the eighth month in a row in October and at the fastest rate in three months as orders from abroad rebounded following a September dip, a survey has revealed.

Motorists are set to be hit with a 10c price increase for toll road usage from the beginning of next year, in line with rising inflation.

Business activity in the services sector increased for the second straight month in September, and at its fastest rate for 19 months.

Ireland’s manufacturing sector has continued its recovery, with September representing the fifth consecutive monthly increase in production levels and business conditions.

May saw a rebound in fortunes for Ireland’s manufacturing sector, with new business orders rising for the fourth consecutive month.

Some parts of the country only have enough housing stock to satisfy demand for just over a year while others have enough for the next 10 years.

Optimism amongst Irish services sector firms has dipped despite business activity enjoying a third consecutive month of growth in April.

The recent recovery evident in Ireland’s manufacturing sectors stalled in April, with output falling for the first time in three months.

Lloyds Banking Group, Britain’s biggest mortgage lender, says two thirds of its €24.8bn of loans in Ireland are unlikely to be repaid in full following the property crash.

Profits across Irish services companies declined sharply in January, as business activity fell for the second consecutive month.

Operating conditions in the manufacturing sector continued to deteriorate in January with activity and output falling for the third consecutive month.

THE National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) will not be able to return to the markets at the end of 2013 but will only need a mini-bailout to fund the running of the country, according to NCB Stockbrokers.

STOCKBROKERS have urged investors to be cautious in their stock choices this year; expressing doubt that predicted growth across European and US equity markets can actually be achieved and predicting a secondary recession for the eurozone.

IRELAND’s manufacturing sector suffered further in December, with the decline in new business levels accelerating and companies seeing a second consecutive monthly deterioration in operating conditions.

IRELAND’s manufacturing sector enjoyed its first monthly increase in production for five months, in October; although employment levels continued to fall.

THE Government may cut at least 1 percentage point off its 2012 economic forecast as a global slowdown curbs the export-led recovery, according to people familiar with the subject.

GLANBIA Plc, the largest cheese maker in the US, may spend €200 million next year on acquisitions to boost the nutritional products business it has built up from the by-products of dairy goods.

DESPITE a slight increase, growth in overall business activity in the services sector slowed for the second consecutive month in August; with new business, employment, profitability and optimism amongst companies all taking a hit due to ongoing weak consumer demand.

THE country’s services sector saw new export orders contract for the first time this year in July, and at the fastest pace in two years, stoking doubts about the country’s economic growth prospects, a survey released yesterday has showed.

There was mixed news today in the latest NCB Purchasing Managers’ Index, a barometer for measuring activity in the services sector.

THE recent growth in the manufacturing sector came to a sudden halt last month, with output falling for the first time since the early part of 2010 and new orders declining for the first time in nine months.

The Cork-based Doyle shipping group has sold its share holding in the Irish Continental Group (ICG), which operates Irish Ferries, for €47m.

SUSTAINED growth in manufacturing in April resulted in output hitting its second-highest level in 11 years with export-led growth continuing to offer some positivity to the struggling economy.

ONE of the country’s leading economists has warned that achieving a 1% reduction on the EU/IMF bailout will not be a huge benefit to our debt repayments.

IRELAND’S services and manufacturing industries are expanding at the fastest rates in almost a year, as fresh orders pump confidence into the sectors.

IRISH Continental Group’s 9% rise in earnings in the third quarter is “a solid statement in a challenging market”, according to NCB Stockbrokers.

AIB is to sell its 22.4% stake in M&T for €1.5bn, a discount of 7% to Tuesday’s value of the bank’s stake holding in the US regional bank.

BUSINESS activity in the service sector fell for the first time in six months in September, wiping out the strong growth seen in June and July.

YIELDS at a treasury bill auction yesterday fell from an auction two weeks ago after the Government announced on Wednesday that it would gradually wind down Anglo Irish Bank.

AN increase in new business levels kept Ireland’s combined manufacturing sector in growth mode during August, but the sector’s actual rate of growth slowed to its weakest level for five months.

FBD is not planning any premium hikes despite paying out €50 million as a result of the big freeze and the floods last year.

GLANBIA, the leading supplier of mozzarella cheese in Europe, has confirmed its first-half figures will show a strong improvement over the same period last year.