IMF throws another log on the ‘soft-landing’ fireWashington-based fund says recovery from Covid-19, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the cost-of-living crisis is proving surprisingly resilientThu Feb 01 2024 - 06:00
Ryanair makes peace with some online travel agentsIrish airline signs online agent deals that give it control of the sale of its flightsTue Jan 30 2024 - 05:45
Tech sector lay-offs keep comingIn Ireland, Google and Three have flagged job losses at their operations while there are concerns for jobs at Activision Blizzard after Microsoft said it would cut 1% of the games unit’s staff globallyTue Jan 30 2024 - 05:12
Reset required at Web Summit after chief executive’s surprise exitOnly weeks since Katherine Maher told media about drive to get summit back to what it does best: connecting peopleSat Jan 27 2024 - 07:09
Mediahuis Ireland prepares for the digital stormStaff of Irish Independent publisher ‘unhappy’ and ‘shocked’, admits chief executive Peter VandermeerschThu Jan 25 2024 - 06:00
Tax debt debate highlights PAYE workers’ plight Government indicates that deadline for businesses repay warehoused tax debt could be extendedThu Jan 25 2024 - 06:00
Time to stop the doublespeak on artificial intelligenceProfit is and will remain the driving force; the challenge is to set and enforce credible limitsTue Jan 23 2024 - 05:00
Searching for the ‘Holy Grail’ of bone glueIrish firm Biomimetic Innovations’ OsStic may become the world’s first surgical bioadhesive for broken bonesTue Jan 23 2024 - 05:00
Will this be the year that Stripe floats on the stock market? Tech Crunch notes figures compiled by Caplight reveal an ‘absolute flurry of buyers’ seeking shares in the Collison brothers’ company in recent monthsSat Jan 20 2024 - 06:00
End of the long Meta goodbye for Sheryl Sandberg. Is Washington next?Former chief operating officer of the company behind Facebook has stepped down from the Meta board. But is she swapping Silicon Valley for Capitol Hill?Sat Jan 20 2024 - 06:00
Chinese data paints mixed picture of its economyGDP hit record in absolute terms but property market remains on the floorThu Jan 18 2024 - 06:00
Clerys revamp moves up a gear with Decathlon dealRedevelopment has faced a number of setbacks over the past yearThu Jan 18 2024 - 06:00
Red Sea disruption raises spectre of inflation againSuzuki and other automakers are suspending European production amid supply chain crunchesTue Jan 16 2024 - 06:00
Can Davos meet challenge of living up to stated ambitions?Rebuilding trust, the theme of this year’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, is badly needed but it needs to be more than talkTue Jan 16 2024 - 06:00
What work permits data tells us about the Irish jobs marketThe number of non-EEA nationals seeking and being granted the permission required to work in technology in the State last year dropped by more than 50 per centSat Jan 13 2024 - 06:00
AIB’s pay plea likely to fail as State still €3bn underwater on bailoutState has recovered €13.6 billion of AIB’s €20.8 billion rescue billThu Jan 11 2024 - 06:15
ECB keeps the focus on inflation, not rate cutsPolicymaker Luis de Guindos emphasises need to get price increases fully under controlThu Jan 11 2024 - 06:15
Taggart’s plan to build homes on parks should be scrutinised by Land Development Agency Proposal involves setting aside 10 per cent of major public parks in Dublin to provide housing for key workersTue Jan 09 2024 - 06:00
Are days numbered for last Irish reit as it bows to ‘strategic review’?Nation's biggest private landlord under pressure from activist investorTue Jan 09 2024 - 06:00
State schemes fanning house price inflation First-time buyers availing of Government supports dominate mortgage transactionsTue Jan 09 2024 - 05:00
Despite multiple global crises, Ireland’s economy keeps motoring onCSO’s latest Year in Numbers release highlights strength of macro economySun Jan 07 2024 - 06:00
What’s better than a good company rescue? No need for so many rescues in the first placeRising rate of insolvencies in 2024 could be followed by bleak January for small businessesSat Jan 06 2024 - 06:00
High stakes at play in fibre broadband regulation rowEir is fighting ComReg’s decisions to limit its ability to compete on pricing in the market for wholesale high-speed broadbandThu Dec 21 2023 - 06:00
CRH’s move down under prompts some head-scratching Company has been retreating from regions outside US and Europe in recent timesThu Dec 21 2023 - 06:00
Teeling calls out investor apathy for explorersExploration veteran cites poor stock market interest alongside sliding prices and rising energy costs as challenge for diamond minnowThu Dec 21 2023 - 05:00
PTSB faces battle to offer mortgages on same footing as larger rivalsNext task will be to reduce capital it holds against new loansTue Dec 19 2023 - 06:00
Central Bank confident of a soft landing Regulator’s latest economic commentary paints a positive picture of domestic economy despite international headwindsTue Dec 19 2023 - 00:00
Martin Shanahan timed his IDA exit wellLatest jobs figures show a small decline in employment at agency’s clients companies amid tech sector slowdownSun Dec 17 2023 - 07:00
Scramble for JP McManus’s millions beginsClubs across the country are debating how the cash should be allocatedSat Dec 16 2023 - 06:00
Dalata hotels on a roll as UK expansion fuels growth But questions remain about future of travel and tourism as consumer concerns biteThu Dec 14 2023 - 06:00
Mood music on Irish economy suggests more shops could close in early 2024 Latest ESRI forecasts point to growth in modified domestic demand of just 0.6% this yearThu Dec 14 2023 - 06:00
All eyes fixed on central banks this weekEuropean Central Bank, Federal Reserve and Bank of England all set to meet to decide interest ratesTue Dec 12 2023 - 06:00
The tech downturn, what downturn?CSO figures show services exports hit a record €340bn last yearTue Dec 12 2023 - 06:00
Savings bubble bursts as cost of living weighs on householdsThe assumption is that consumers are having to fork out more for energy, food and mortgagesSun Dec 10 2023 - 05:00
Disney has made mistakes in 2023, but pausing ads on X is not one of themElon Musk can sound off, but Disney chief Bob Iger will not come under pressure for joining ranks of advertisers shunning XSat Dec 09 2023 - 06:00
London Stock Exchange facing deepening problemsUK market has seen slew of big name firms drop their listing in recent monthsThu Dec 07 2023 - 06:00
Is Diageo about to call time on its Irish ales and lagers? News publisher Axios says Diageo is planning to sell its beer portfolio, with the exception of its Guinness stoutThu Dec 07 2023 - 05:45
A simple revision and we are in recessionCSO revises second quarter GDP number down, pushing Irish economy into recession in the processTue Dec 05 2023 - 05:47
Oisín Fanning may need fresh San Leon plan as US funds fail to turn up Earlier this year, San Leon planned to take over certain assets of Nigeria’s Midwestern Oil and Gas Company, a 13 per cent shareholder in San Leon, by way of a reverse takeoverTue Dec 05 2023 - 05:39
Debit and credit card use keeps rising, but cashless society is a long way awayLatest Central Bank data shows cash continues to be a popular choice for manySun Dec 03 2023 - 05:00
GDP data shows domestic economy still doing okay, but can that continue?Contraction largely driven by sectors dominated by multinationals doing business outside IrelandSat Dec 02 2023 - 06:00
Exports now exaggerating Irish downturnIreland’s headline growth is faltering but not as badly as the headline GDP numbers suggestThu Nov 30 2023 - 06:00
Proof will be in the pudding for Greencore Company’s revenues and profits are up but volumes remain tight while costs continue to riseThu Nov 30 2023 - 05:30
Government and big dairy at loggerheads as nitrates row rolls onDairy farmer group talks of ‘Government’s animosity towards the dairy sector’Tue Nov 28 2023 - 06:00
Ulster Bank move on ‘offset mortgages’ paves way for licence return in 2025Plan’s €58m cost will be worth it for bank as it moves to exit the RepublicTue Nov 28 2023 - 06:00
The European Commission gave the two former budgetary miscreants a clean bill of healthIt is welcome at a time when interest rates are rising and bond investors are again looking at the prospects of individual countriesSun Nov 26 2023 - 05:30
O’Connell Street traders fight to recover ground lost to riotsO’Connell Street is supposed to be Dublin’s main thoroughfare but instead vast tracts of land lie empty awaiting redevelopmentSat Nov 25 2023 - 06:00
What did you spend your last bonus on?Is your annual bonus from your employer being sucked into your day-to-day spending?Thu Nov 23 2023 - 06:00
Is the property market that ‘hot’Property website Daft.ie said homes offered on its bidding platform have gone from first to final offer within just 10 daysThu Nov 23 2023 - 05:30
Press Up redundancies a harsh reality check for sector Hospitality group cites sale of hotel group as a reason for laying off staffTue Nov 21 2023 - 05:30
