Archive for June 2025

Euro zone inflation eased below the European Central Bank’s target last month on surprisingly benign services costs, underpinning expectations for further policy easing even as global trade tensions fuel longer-term price pressures. Consumer price inflation in the 20 countries sharing the euro slowed to 1.9% in May from 2.2% a month earlier, below expectations for…

Business group Ibec has warned that Ireland’s current public investment model for research and innovation does not match the country’s ambition to become a European Innovation Leader. In a new report published as part of its Business Ambition campaign, Ibec said Ireland must increase public investment in research and innovation to 1% of Gross National…

The OECD has slashed its annual global growth forecast today, warning that US President Donald Trump’s tariffs blitz will stifle the world economy – hitting the US especially hard. After 3.3% growth last year, the world economy is now expected to expand by a “modest” 2.9% in 2025 and 2026, the Paris-based Organisation for Economic…

The country’s manufacturing sector grew at a solid pace in May as strong domestic demand offset a second successive monthly decline in export orders due to subdued sales into the US and Britain, a new survey showed today. AIB’s Manufacturing PMI fell slightly to 52.6 from April’s 53, but was above the 50 threshold indicating…

In an increasingly knowledge-driven economy, intellectual property (IP) is one of the most valuable — and often overlooked — assets a business can own. At KAAS we know that while tangible assets like buildings, stock, and equipment are easy to quantify, the ideas, brand identity, creative outputs, and innovations behind a business are just as…