Monthly Archives: August 2017

Power Talks – Currency markets giving cause for Irish concern

  In recent weeks, most of the meaningful action in the financial markets has been focused on currencies. The euro has very much become the darling of the markets and both the dollar and sterling are under some considerable pressure. At the end of 2016, the dollar reached a high of 1.0384 against the euro and looked set…

Power Talks – Mortgage market recovering, but still a long way to go

  The latest mortgage drawdown data from the Banking & Payments Federation Ireland show that the mortgage market continues to recover, but there is still a long way to go to reach a ‘normal’ market in terms of mortgage numbers and value. Table 1 shows the volume or number of mortgages drawn down. In the first half of…