# consumer-sentiment - Thursday 8 January, 2015
New figures today also show an increase of 6.4% in retail sales over the course of the year.
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# consumer-sentiment - Tuesday 4 November, 2014
The 8-year high in consumer sentiment recorded in September didn’t last long.
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# consumer-sentiment - Monday 6 October, 2014
Customer sentiment is higher than it has been since January 2007.
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# consumer-sentiment - Tuesday 16 September, 2014
Latest customer sentiment survey down last month after hitting a seven-year high in July.
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# consumer-sentiment - Monday 7 July, 2014
Irish consumers are still overwhelmingly negative about their personal finances, with many unconvinced of the impact of the economic recovery.
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# consumer-sentiment - Sunday 29 June, 2014
However, a Red C/Sunday Business Post survey today also reveals that 41% a third are comfortable.
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# consumer-sentiment - Monday 9 June, 2014
KBC Bank’s consumer sentiment survey tumbled last month, with the election blamed for widespread bad humour.
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# consumer-sentiment - Tuesday 13 May, 2014
The Your Dublin, Your Voice survey is the fifth of of its kind and set out to find how Dubliners are feeling about their current financial situation.
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# consumer-sentiment - Monday 7 April, 2014
The chief economist at KBC Bank Ireland said it likely reflects a normal ebb and flow in the data and we shouldn’t be too worried.
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# consumer-sentiment - Tuesday 4 March, 2014
The report says that Irish consumers are increasingly confident in the Irish economy.
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# consumer-sentiment - Wednesday 15 January, 2014
It appears that our bailout exit made consumers feel more confident about their own financial situation too.
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# consumer-sentiment - Friday 1 November, 2013
The KBC/ESRI consumer confidence survey rose again in October.
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# consumer-sentiment - Wednesday 5 June, 2013
The supermarket giant has said that like-for-like sales have fallen by three per cent in the first 13 weeks of this year.
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# consumer-sentiment - Monday 8 April, 2013
The marginal increase comes amid concerns about the looming property tax and cuts to pay outlined in the Croke Park II deal.
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# consumer-sentiment - Tuesday 5 March, 2013
Pressures on household finances and high-profile job losses contributed to the weakening of consumer sentiment in February.
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# consumer-sentiment - Monday 11 February, 2013
A significant drop in December took economists by surprise but confidence levels now appear to have stabilised.
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# consumer-sentiment - Friday 25 January, 2013
Hot beverages and home and giftware sectors saw noticeable increases while furniture and flooring suffered losses.
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# consumer-sentiment - Saturday 12 January, 2013
How many women in Ireland smoke? Were consumers panicked by Budget announcements? And how many people watched Darren die?
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# consumer-sentiment - Friday 11 January, 2013
December’s index saw the largest one month point decline in seventeen years.
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# consumer-sentiment - Wednesday 26 December, 2012
Good news for retailers from the evidence so far on St Stephen’s Day says the retail representative body.
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# consumer-sentiment - Monday 3 December, 2012
The KBC Bank Ireland/ESRI index shows a small amount of growth with sentiment at 63.8 in November compared to 60.9 in October.
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# consumer-sentiment - Saturday 3 November, 2012
How old is the Phoenix Park? And how many TDs could face sanction for failing to declare pay-offs?
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# consumer-sentiment - Thursday 1 November, 2012
Is the talk of possible tax hikes and benefit cuts in next month’s Budget affecting how you spend your money right now?
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# consumer-sentiment - Wednesday 24 October, 2012
Concerns over the eurozone and the upcoming Budget are hitting companies expansion plans, say KBC Ireland/Chartered Accountants Ireland
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# consumer-sentiment - Tuesday 2 October, 2012
Experts said speculation around the budget and potential cuts to social welfare and health contributed to the decline.
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# consumer-sentiment - Thursday 9 August, 2012
KBC Bank Ireland said influences such as the EU summit on Ireland’s bank debt, the ECB rate cut and the latest Troika review likely impacted on sentiment.
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# consumer-sentiment - Wednesday 4 July, 2012
However consumers unlikely to step up their spending, as just 12 per cent believe their financial situation will improve in the coming year.
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# consumer-sentiment - Monday 11 June, 2012
But people’s expectations about jobs and household finances have improved slightly.
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# consumer-sentiment - Tuesday 8 May, 2012
KBC/ESRI consumer sentiment index rose slightly in April for the fourth month in a row.
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# consumer-sentiment - Wednesday 11 April, 2012
Consumer sentiment has risen for the third month in a row and is now at its highest level since last October according to the KBC Bank/ESRI
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# consumer-sentiment - Tuesday 31 January, 2012
The latest consumer sentiment index indicates that heightened concerns over the eurozone last month have eased somewhat.
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# consumer-sentiment - Wednesday 25 January, 2012
Many stores face going out of business in 2012, according to the chief executive of Retail Excellence Ireland.
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# consumer-sentiment - Monday 9 January, 2012
In tonight’s fix: Calls to negotiate a second bailout, Gardaí investigate woman’s death in nursing home, and which celebrity chef has been a very naughty boy?
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The KBC/ESRI index has shown that Irish consumer sentiment fell considerably in December.
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# consumer-sentiment - Tuesday 15 November, 2011
Irish consumers became more positive in October, apparently finding more reasons to be optimistic about the economic outlook.
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# consumer-sentiment - Thursday 29 September, 2011
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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Sentiment in Ireland didn’t fall as much as among other Europeans or in the US – possibly because of an already-poor outlook here.
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# consumer-sentiment - Saturday 17 September, 2011
TheJournal.ie reporters have been quizzing those in the know to describe the potential fallout of a Greek debt default on Ireland’s economic, social and political scene…
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# consumer-sentiment - Tuesday 6 September, 2011
The KBC/ESRI Consumer Sentiment Index is virtually unchanged, but shows a worrying emerging trend in the medium term.
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# consumer-sentiment - Monday 5 September, 2011
Figures from Visa show that European consumers increased spending by 2.5 per cent in Q2… but that bailed out states were down.
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