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In this week’s episode, Paul Ward, AIB Treasury and Oliver Mangan, AIB Chief Economist, focus in on the US economy and what the latest strong data means in terms of the outlook for currencies. They also touch on the move by the Bank of Canada to tighten monetary policy and what lies ahead for the coming week.  

New residential supply, as measured by the CSO’s ‘New Dwellings Completion’ data, held up much better than expected last year. This was in spite of the sector being shut down from late March through to the second half of May....

Manufacturing PMI was little changed at 52.0 in February. However, output and new orders contracted again as underlying business conditions remain weak in the sector....

AIB’s Economic Research Unit provides regular commentary on the domestic and global economy, currency and interest rate markets, and special commentary on key events....

In this week’s episode, Cormac Cunnane, AIB Treasury and Oliver Mangan, AIB’s Chief Economist discuss the US presidential election and the possible impact it will have on financial markets, the two Central Bank meetings on Thursday and they discuss the likelihood of a Brexit deal before Christmas.