Economics Dashboard Upgrade Announced IRN Research have released an upgraded version of its economics dashboard featuring a wider range of statistics. In addition to the current economic data on GDP, business turnover, unemployment, inflation, productivity, Sterling:US$ exchange rate, interest rates and confidence, the new dashboard includes three new types of information supplied by Investing.com: An Economic Statistics Calendar – the continuously updated economic calendar shows...
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Our new legal services dashboard is free to access and contains in one place data on monthly and annual legal market revenues; number and types of law firms, Chambers, and ABS; data on trends in specific sectors, e.g. employment law, family law, PI, probate. Current and trends data going back for 5 years or more in most cases. The dashboard is regularly updated and you...
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September 2016 UK Ireland ferry passenger figures* for September 2016 found a 0.9% decline in ferry passengers compared to September 2015 but this was compensated by a 1.7% increase in the number of cars. The 112K cars for September 2016 compared 110K in 2015. 9 months to September 2016 The trend was also reflected in the year to date figures. In the 9 months to...
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The UK Personal Injury Market Briefing is the third edition of an annual Legal Market Briefing from IRN Research and provides an overview of the UK personal injury and clinical negligence markets. The personal injury market is still in a state of flux as it continues to come to terms with the far-reaching changes resulting from the implementation of the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment...
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Free economic dashboard You can now keep up-to-date with key economic statistics and trends by viewing the IRN economic dashboard. This features key statistics on the UK economy plus regularly updated business news from Google. It also features searchable calendar of economic indicators, the latest stock market index and cross currency rates. IRN will be periodically updating the dashboard when new statistics are released, so...
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Inbound and outbound tourism flows by sea and train follow suit with growth in the first first quarter followed by a decline in the second quarter and down overall for the half year. The second quarter results from the International Passenger Survey (IPS) show that inbound overseas resident visits to the UK by sea and train fell by 6% to 2,806 million visits compared with the...
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Freight – August 2016 In August 2016, there was a 9.0 per cent rise freight unit traffic on the English Channel, Eurotunnel and Irish Sea routes compared with the same month a year earlier. The 489k units for August underpinned the eight month growth trend to August 2016. Eight months to August 2016 In the eight months to August 2016, the number of freight units...
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The UK – Continent passenger ferry market was down 4.4% by volume in year to date August 2016 according to the monthly Ferrystat report from market research consultancy IRN Research. Visit our Travel/Transport reports page for details of our reports. These reports include monthly Ferrytstat and Freightstat reports as well as the annual UK Ferry Market report, the authorative statistics on the UK passenger ferry...
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IRN has just launched a report outlining the use and potential of Robo-Finance Agents in the financial services market. Artificial intelligence (AI) agents (or Robo-Finance Agents) have now reached a level of maturity and cost which is allowing them to be used widely in the financial services market. While currently most attention is focused on their use in Retail Robo-advice services, in the coming decade...
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Results from the International Passenger Survey (IPS) show that inbound overseas resident visits to the UK by sea or train in the first quarter 2016 increased by 4% over the same quarter in 2015 to 1.895 million visits. Outbound UK resident visits remained more or less the same with 1.983 million visits in the first quarter 2015 increasing to 1.991 million visits. In the previous 12 months, the inbound and outbound...
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