Visa’s Irish Consumer Spending Index, produced by IHS Markit, which measures expenditure across all payment types (cash, cheques and electronic payments), pointed to a further reduction in spending during October. At -1.4% year-on-year, the decline was less marked than that seen in September (-2.1%). That said, expenditure has now fallen on a monthly basis in five of the past six months.
Visa’s Irish Consumer Spending Index, produced by IHS Markit, which measures expenditure across all payment types (cash, cheques and electronic payments), signalled a renewed downturn in household expenditure in September. At -2.0% year-on-year, the fall was the second-fastest since the series began in September 2014, behind only that seen in June.
Visa’s Irish Consumer Spending Index, produced by IHS Markit, which measures expenditure across all payment types (cash, cheques and electronic payments), pointed to a marginal rise in expenditure year-on-year in August, thereby ending a three-month sequence of decline. Spending was up +0.4%, cancelling out a -0.3% reduction in July.
Visa’s Irish Consumer Spending Index, produced by IHS Markit, which measures expenditure across all payment types (cash, cheques and electronic payments), signalled an ongoing reduction in household expenditure in July. Spending was down -0.3% year-on-year, the third successive decline.
Visa’s Irish Consumer Spending Index, produced by IHS Markit, which measures expenditure across all payment types (cash, cheques and electronic payments), recorded the first back-to-back fall in household expenditure in June, and the sharpest decline in spending since the series began in September 2014.
Visa’s Irish Consumer Spending Index, produced by IHS Markit, which measures expenditure across all payment types (cash, cheques and electronic payments), signalled a modest reduction in overall spending during May. The latest data showed that expenditure declined by -1.4% on the year, following growth of +1.2% in April.
Visa’s Irish Consumer Spending Index, produced by IHS Markit, which measures expenditure across all payment types (cash, cheques and electronic payments), pointed to a second successive increase in spending during April. Expenditure was up +1.2% year-on-year, following a +2.7% increase in March.
Visa’s Irish Consumer Spending Index, produced by IHS Markit, which measures expenditure across all payment types (cash, cheques and electronic payments), signalled a positive end to the first quarter of 2019 with regards to consumer spending. Household expenditure was up +2.7% year-on-year in March, after having ticked down in February (-0.6%).
Visa’s Irish Consumer Spending Index, produced by IHS Markit, which measures expenditure across all payment types (cash, cheques and electronic payments), indicated a fall in consumer spending for a second time in the past three months during February. Having risen slightly during January (+0.1%), expenditure was down by -0.6% on a year-on-year basis.
Visa’s Irish Consumer Spending Index, produced by IHS Markit, which measures expenditure across all payment types (cash, cheques and electronic payments), pointed to ongoing muted spending trends at the start of 2019. Although stabilising following the annual fall of -0.4% in December, spending was broadly unchanged – up just +0.1%.
• Household spending falls for first time since February 2017 (-0.3% on the year) • Face-to-Face expenditure declines for second month running (-3.9%) • eCommerce spending continues to rise sharply (+9.8%)
Visa’s Irish Consumer Spending Index, produced by IHS Markit, which measures expenditure across all payment types (cash, cheques and electronic payments), recorded a modest year-on-year increase (+1.0%) in consumer spending in Ireland during November, representing the weakest growth in just over a year, slowing from +4.0% in October.