Unemployment was continuing to rise, and domestic demand — the total purchases by people and companies in Ireland — was continuing to fall.
Crude oil settled at $80.57 a barrel for October delivery in regular trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange, and was continuing to rise after hours.
For further good news, they looked to the streaming service's data on time spent viewing per subscriber, which they said was continuing to rise on a year-over-year basis.
On Friday the government revealed that the number of sites now identified as being infected with ash dieback was continuing to rise – up to 169 — and that it was unlikely the disease could be eradicated.
The death toll from the devastating earthquake in Nepal climbed above 1,900 on Sunday and was continuing to rise as officials struggled to gauge the full scale of the disaster and the world rushed to provide desperately needed aid.
One of Grayling's harshest critics, Frances Crook of the Howard League for Penal Reform, described Gove as a "welcome breath of fresh air" but noted that the prison population was continuing to rise.
