Indicators: Irish inflation (Dec), unemployment (Dec), consumer price index (Dec); UK inflation (Dec), PPI input and output (Dec), retail prices (Dec); German inflation (Dec); US consumer inflation expectations (Dec). Meetings: Moody’s annual half-day Credit Trends event (Westin Hotel, Dublin). Dublin’s Credit Trends event is among 16 in four weeks, bringing together over 1,000 investors eager to get a feel for 2018. Indicators: euro zone construction output (Nov), inflation (Dec); German wholesale prices (Dec); US industrial and manufacturing production (Dec). Put simply, blockchain technology is the creation of growing lists of records linked and secured with cryptography.

Source: The Irish Times January 14, 2018 01:07 UTC