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Deloitte is creating 500 new tech jobs in Belfast in response to client demand There will be four centres across the UK & Belfast will be the largest The First & Deputy First Ministers & Economy Minister are here to officially open the Ewart building which will have 1,300 staff

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Always best to wait until the legal texts are agreed but a dynamic alignment arrangement on SPS and linking of CBAM would be hugely significant for Northern Ireland.

Ursula making a point of saying what the UK and EU are negotiating around SPS rules will help Northern Ireland and reduce border checks Question is how quickly that can happen given there are still areas of the Windsor Framework to implement coming up

The meat producers association concurs

I was promised 90 deals in 90 days. Let’s check in: Source Justin Wolfers

BYD is outselling Ford in Mexico in the first four months of 2025.

JPMORGAN CEO JAMIE DIMON SAYS GEOPOLITICAL RISK IS OUR LARGEST RISK

Northern Ireland's economy minister rules out increasing university tuition fees above the usual level of inflation bbc.in/3SP1xtq

Hefty rise in inflation after last month’s bill rises esp energy.,,.

House building activity improving but completed units still at subdued levels in Q1 2025 Starts +9% y/y but 2% below Q1-19 levels Completions +7.9% y/y but 27% below Q1-19 (pre-pandemic) levels.

Almost 30 years since Bill Clinton switched on the Christmas lights in Belfast. It has been 30 years of Snakes & Ladders for the Northern Ireland economy. ⁦Queen's University Belfast 🎓⁩ 👇 linkedin.com/posts/richard-…

UK PM Keir Starmer announces U-turn on winter fuel payments, saying more older people will be eligible after autumn Budget Follow live: bbc.in/4dnTL3k

Median price of a new build dwelling in N.Ireland up 10.3% y/y to £244.4k. Up 1.3% from Q3 2007 ‘freak peak’. Estimated that inadequate wastewater infrastructure is preventing construction 🏗️ of ~37,000 dwellings. That equates to a whopping £9bn of potential investment!

Ireland of course has an enormous impact on the FDI income balance (most of Apple's profit is there, a decent share of Microsoft's profit is there, lots of the pharma profit is there) and on US services exports ...

Once the discussion broadens to services and income, Ireland looms even larger than it does on goods -- and the largest US bilateral goods deficit with a EU country is now with Ireland! (all pharma on US side/ pharma and organic chemics on the EU side)

MIT to cut jobs, reduce graduate research admissions amid funding cuts #MacroEdge

For context, there are about 84,000 jobs in the entire steelmaking industry in the entire United States right now. So I sincerely doubt there will be 70,000 more steel manufacturing jobs just in Pennsylvania.