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- Bank of England says UK mortgage approvals fell to lowest level in March since at least 1999
- Bookmaker Paddy Power reports 4% increase in pre-tax profits for 2008 boosted by rising online business
- Boston Scientific to shut Letterkenny plant; Concerns for Celestica plant in Galway where 380 are employed
- BP in 2008 added 1.7bn barrels of new oil and gas to its reserves base - - a replacement ratio of 121% sufficient for 43 years of production
- Coughlan allocates €7 million for investment in industry research initiatives; Claims "Ireland Inc reaches milestone in transition to a smarter, greener economy"
- Dr. Peter Morici: Reasons to cheer Lehman’s demise
- Elan reports net loss of $213m in second quarter
- European Central Bank keeps benchmark interest rate on hold at 4%; Trichet to outline views on inflation at press conference
- European Commission says food price rises not all related to cost of ingredients; Biofuel production no effect on prices in EU
- European Private Company: Is Europe’s single legal form for SMEs close to approval?
- Eurozone GDP growth accelerated in first quarter; Industrial Price Index rose 0.8% in April
- Fingleton to resign from Irish Nationwide Building Society
- Gardaí from the Bureau of Fraud Investigation raid State-owned Anglo Irish Bank HQ in Dublin
- Global Financial Crisis: Priorities for Regulatory Reform - IMF
- Iceland keeps benchmark rate at 15.5% as country tops the Global Peace Index
- Industrial producer price index fell by 0.5% in the Eurozone in August - up 8.5% in 12-month period
- Irish businesses are taking longer to pay their bills - Kildare worst county for stretching credit
- Irish Exchequer deficit rises to €20.1 billion in September; 2009 deficit forecast revised up to 12% of GDP
- Irish factory gate prices fell 3% in year to May bucking international trend; Data impacted by dominance of multinationals
- Irish merchandise exports fell 8% in year to November; Imports plunge 28%
- Irish national house prices fell 10.1% to end August 2009 compared to 6.0% drop in the same period in 2008
- Irish pension funds in April moved performance into the black for the first time in 2009
- Irish pension funds rise again in July - - now up 20.8% since end of February 2009
- Markets News Afternoon: German banks reported to have passed stress tests; EU ministers fail to agree on level of test disclosures; Estonia to join Eurozone in January
- Markets News Afternoon: US service activity grew in April for the fourth consecutive month; US private sector added 32,000 jobs in April
- Markets News Thursday: Post-NAMA Irish banks Loan to Deposit ratio drops but remains at high level of 130%; AIB surges to double-digit rise on "bad bank" plan
- Markets News Wednesday: German producer prices in biggest dip in 60 years; Shares down in Europe and Asia
- Merrill Lynch Survey of Fund Managers September: "Goldilocks" welcomed back with slow but sustainable recovery in sight
- New Zealand exits recession with help from China
- Obama advisor says "Ireland must wean itself from dependence on FDI" - Foreign Direct Investment
- Pfizer to invest €190 million in a biologics facility at Shanbally, Co. Cork; 100 "high quality" jobs to be created over three years
- UK Chancellor of the Exchequer announces second British bank rescue; Royal Bank of Scotland Group may report £28 billion loss
- UK economy shrank in the first quarter of 2009 in the biggest contraction since 1979; Manufacturing contracted 6.2% - - the most since at least 1948
- UK GDP - gross domestic product - in the first quarter 2008 revised down to 0.3%
- Up to 70% of Irish defined benefit schemes which provide guaranteed benefits will soon be closed to new members
- US online firm MFG.com to create 50 jobs in Drogheda over 2 years
- World Bank delegation arrives in Georgia; Investors quit Russia; Russian economy dependent on energy exports and state-run large enterprises
- "Et tu brute": Betrayal of trust; Administering last rites to Catholic Church authority in 2009; Little other change in Ireland
- "Innovation" minister Lenihan spins claims spin-outs from Irish university research without credible data
- "Leading" "top" or idiot Irish economists glowing with wisdom in these challenging times
- "One in eight Germans lives in poverty!" - Needs-adjusted Nonsense and the New Poverty - Prof. Hans-Werner Sinn
- "Thought Leaders" discuss Ireland’s competitiveness; Gormley says country "staring into an economic abyss"
- 'Business as usual' not an option as manufacturers aim for value over volume
- 'Xanadu' Dreams Meet Harsh Reality
- (State) House Rules in Kansas Casino
- 666 Fifth Poses Test for Market
- 90% of Irish Defined Benefit Pension Plans would currently fail to meet the minimum funding test
- A Big Bet on Spanish Property
- A Bottom in Commercial Property?
- A Building Downturn? Not in Berlin
- A Compromise on Fannie, Freddie
- A Couple's Descent Into Foreclosure
- A DHL Founder Asks $32 Million for Ranches
- A dialogue on the Chinese renminbi
- A Different Kind of Bike Tour
- A fragmented and incomplete view of risk at banks may result in bigger overall exposures says Economist Intelligence Unit research
- A further 230 jobs are to be cut at Dell's Irish operations
- A Gamble That Went Bust
- A Home for Household Surplus
- A House Is Not a Home
- A Logistical Tragedy
- A Logistical Tragedy
- A Lure to Dubai: Celebrity Endorsers
- A moderate and uneven recovery is taking shape across Europe -- IMF
- A Night in Moscow: It'll Cost You
- A post-Lisbon Agenda growth strategy to make the EU fit for the future
- A Project in Hawaii Stumbles
- A Property Firm Helps Itself
- A quarter of the world's companies plan to freeze salaries this year; Employees in Japan, Lithuania and Ireland will see the lowest pay rises
- A Real-Estate Ace's Outlook
- A Reprieve for Project in Vegas?
- A Return to Real Estate
- A Review of Moscow’s Movie Тheaters. Bend Oregon Real Estate Mls
- A Rising Number of Foreclosed Homes
- A second Irish referendum to ratify the Lisbon Treaty and Bismarck's carriage
- A Tale of One City, Two Troubled Banks
- A Tale of Two Cities (in London)
- A Tenant's Twitter Tangle
- A Toothsome Time for Tom Barrack
- A top global banker calls on G-20 to give regulators more control of bank lending during boom times
- A typical Irish Chartered Accountant earns over €110,000 a year
- A Warehouses Gamble Sours in Phoenix
- A World of its Own
- Abacus Deal: Bad as They Come
- Abu Dhabi Fund in NYC Deal
- Abu Dhabi Fund Might Buy Stake in Chrysler Building
- ACCBank to cut 200 jobs and close 16 branches; Wins f €6.1m court judgment against property developer
- Ackman Raises Stakes on General Growth Bet
- Ackman the Contrarian
- Activity in Financial Markets impacted by Credit Crunch; London's share of International Trading remains high
- Adding Comfort and Convenience
- ADM Londis reports profit before tax increased by 20% in 2007
- Advice on Selling a Home Without a Real-Estate Agent
- Advocates Tout a Property Rally
- Aer Lingus announces 10.9% rise in April 2009 traffic compared with 2008
- Aer Lingus announces plan to cut 676 jobs, pay and target savings of €97m by end 2011; Traffic up in September
- Aer Lingus announces traffic statistics for the volcano afflicted month of April
- Aer Lingus cuts US routes; IBEC says Irish Air Travel Tax should be re-examined; An ignorant or rational position?
- Aer Lingus expects 2008 loss to be close to €20 million; Loss also forecast for 2009
- Aer Lingus hikes charges for checking-in bags by as much as 50%; Ryanair reports fall in load factor in April
- Aer Lingus increases fuel surcharges
- Aer Lingus increases fuel surcharges
- Aer Lingus March traffic fell by 7.0% - - long haul down 20.9%; Ryanair calls for appointment of trade union leader David Begg as Chief Executive!
- Aer Lingus May traffic rose 2.7%; Airline agrees to cut directors' fees
- Aer Lingus passenger numbers rose 7.6% in year to June
- Aer Lingus passenger traffic up 8.8% in August; Numbers down on long-haul routes
- Aer Lingus report pre-tax loss of €119.7 million in 2008; Loss forecast in 2009
- Aer Lingus reports 32.4% plunge in long haul traffic in February
- Aer Lingus reports fall in passenger numbers in October 2009; Long haul dips 25.7% in 12-month period
- Aer Lingus reports loss of €20.6m in H1 2008; Fuel costs increased by €56.5m
- Aer Lingus reports operating loss of €93m in H1 2009
- Aer Lingus reports operating loss of €93m in H1 2009
- Aer Lingus reports pre-tax losses of €154.8m for 2009 - - up 26.8% on 2008
- Aer Lingus reports revenue fall of 11% in 2009 and operating loss before exceptional items of €81.0m; Board to meet on restructuring plan
- Aer Lingus reports revenues fell by 16% during the first quarter of 2009; Facing "exceptionally tough trading environment"
- Aer Lingus reports rise in passenger numbers in August
- Aer Lingus return fuel surcharge to most US routes rises to €150
- Aer Lingus says it carried just over one million passengers in July
- Aer Lingus staff to ballot for strike action over plan for €74m cuts
- Aer Lingus traffic fell 8% in February
- Aer Lingus traffic fell in May because of disruption from disruption from Icelandic volcanic ash
- Aer Lingus US traffic slumped in November
- Aer Lingus warns of uncertain outlook related to cost of fuel and slowing global economy
- Aer Lingus’ total passenger numbers increased by 7.5% in June 2009
- Africa seeing signs of recovery after global crisis - - IMF
- After Bubble, Ghost Towns Across U.S.
- After City Center, Architects Face New Reality
- After the Global Financial Crisis: The road ahead for Europe; IMF chief says Poland shows “good policies and strong institutions matter”
- After the Teardown
- Against All Odds
- Agreement on climate change may be within reach in Copenhagen
- Agribusiness and hunger - - Threat to global food security drives collaborative business models
- Agricultural commodity prices rose by an annual average of 29.6% in 2008 but will stagnate this year
- Agriculture more resilient to global crisis than other sectors; Rise in food commodity prices to ease
- AIB and Bank of Ireland announce EGMs to approve participation in "bad bank" NAMA - - discounts of 30% expected on transferred loans
- AIB announces changes to its lending and deposit rates
- AIB announces changes to its lending and deposit rates
- AIB announces changes to its lending and deposit rates
- AIB announces changes to its lending and deposit rates
- AIB announces half-year loss €872 million; Criticised/troubled loans at 25% of total gross loans
- AIB announces hike in Deposit and Mortgage Rates
- AIB announces increases in some of its mortgage rates
- AIB announces interest rate changes
- AIB announces new pricing structure; Irish mortgage offers set to grow as lenders charge for higher risk applicants
- AIB announces SME package: €1bn funding for investment and working capital requirements; €200m Start Up fund
- AIB Bank announces resignations of Chairman , Group Chief Executive and Group Finance Director
- AIB Bank cancels one year discount on Tracker Mortgages on day Euribor inter-bank 3-month rate hit new 2008 high
- AIB Bank error in account classification results in overcharging on 40,000 accounts - - requiring average refunds of €100
- AIB Bank hikes mortgage rates
- AIB Bank offers to buyback up to €2.8bn in outstanding debt
- AIB Bank reports pre-tax profit of €1.28 billion in first-half of 2008
- AIB Bank says it continues to target a low single digit percentage earnings growth in 2008; Slower loan growth of around 10% is expected
- AIB Bank's caretaker leadership to face angry shareholders at its AGM; "As long as the music is playing, you’ve got to get up and dance"
- AIB Chairman says decisions made in Ireland and AIB compounded effects of world recession; Regrets decisions on property development lending
- AIB Chairman tells AGM that funding is stable and robust with a strong emphasis on stable customer deposits; Current credit conditions are having some impact on its margin
- AIB cuts its 2 & 3 year Irish fixed mortgage rates to 5.2%
- AIB cuts mortgage and deposit rates
- AIB cuts mortgage broker commission by 50%
- AIB hikes Surcharge Interest Rate from 9% per annum to 12% per annum for branch loans and overdrafts
- AIB increases 2008 bad debts provision to €950m
- AIB launches "market leading" interest rate for First Time Buyers
- AIB launches scheme to support small businesses recovery; €500m in additional working capital and restructuring facilities
- AIB launches the AIB Parent Saver Plan with 10.00% A.E.R. until May 2009
- AIB raises 2009 bad debt charges to €5.3bn
- AIB raises about €1 billion from debt swap
- AIB raises bad debt charge to €4.3bn; Loans in difficulty increased by almost €9bn in the first three months to €24.3bn
- AIB reports loss of €2.3bn for 2009 after a bad debt charge of €5.4bn; First annual loss since bank was founded in 1966
- AIB says alternative to capital injection of €3.5bn could result in State takeover of bank
- AIB says Irish business start-ups in 2008 will fall to 12,000 from close to 18,000 in 2007
- AIB says it has provided finance for 38% of all Irish residential property transactions in the first quarter of 2010
- AIB says trading conditions remain challenging, particularly in Ireland; Irish State stake in the bank rises
- AIB Seed and Early Stage Equity Fund expanded by €23 million to €53 million
- AIB Seed Capital Fund reports €4.5m of investments in 2008
- AIB sponsored research says 81% of firms under threat if director dies
- AIB’s loan book is between 60% and 70% exposed to the property sector; Bad debt losses at Ireland's top three domestic banks may peak at almost €5.2bn over the next two years says Goldman Sachs
- AIG chief asks employees to return half of bonus payments; Resists naming recipients because of death threats
- AIG paid bonuses of more than $1m each to 73 people - - most from unit which almost doomed the insurance giant
- Air Force Leader's Ranch Goes on Sale
- Airbus expects higher fuel costs and slowing world economy to hit order intake
- Aircraft maintenance firm SR Technics closes Dublin Airport operation with loss of over 1,100 jobs
- Airline group IATA criticises European governments ' response to Icelandic volcano eruption
- Airtricity in £1.3 billion joint venture to build world's biggest wind farm in the outer Thames Estuary
- Airtricity secures consent for largest onshore wind farm in Europe
- Alabama Mall Shuts Doors
- All Eyes Are on Metrovacesa-HSBC Talks
- Alliance Global to Build Philippine Hotel
- Allianz sells Dresdner Bank to Commerzbank to create group to challenge German market leader Deutsche Bank
- Allied Irish Banks halves earnings estimate on bad debt charge hike
- Allied Irish Banks reports plunge in 2008 profit; Chief Executive says: "I regret some of the lending decisions we made"
- Allied Irish Banks to increase tier 1 capita by €5.0 billion; To raise €1.5 billion in addition to €3.5 billion injection by the Irish Government
- Almost 13,900 researchers engaged in R&D in Irish business sector in 2007; No breakdown of multinational/Irish-owned firm activity
- Almost 18% of new entrants on Irish Live Register in Q1 2009 had jobs by end of June 2009
- Almost 4,000 Laptops lost or missing in Europe's major airports every week
- Almost half of foreign companies based in Ireland regret decision; Dell supplier Flextronics to axe 118 jobs in Limerick
- Amazon.com reports first-quarter profit rose 30%
- America may be the most corrupt developed country; The Irish politicians who should be more ashamed than Frank Dunlop
- America's long-awaited fiscal train wreck is now underway
- America's most famous investor Warren Buffett issues the latest of his celebrated "letters"
- American Chamber of Commerce says a reformed EU offers level playing field; IBEC says Sinn Fein has zero credibility on business issues
- American consumer spending rose 1.3% in August -- savings rate fell; Weekly jobless claims rose
- American Divide: Wall Street and Main Street
- American Girl Founder Puts Houses on Sale
- American Paul Krugman wins the 2008 Nobel economics prize
- Americans are negative on the economy and markets; Disdain for Wall Street and corporate leaders
- Americans boosted spending in January; income growth and the savings rate fell
- Americans growing increasingly gloomy about the economy
- Americans will have to save more in the future says US Treasury Secretary Geithner
- Amid economic volatility companies find ways to remove risk from supply chains, says Economist Intelligence Unit report
- Among the First
- Among the First
- An Apartment Complex Teeters in New York
- An Appraisal Report: What must it contain?
- An estimated 345,000 houses or 17% of the Irish housing stock is vacant
- An Irish auctioneers' survey says residential property prices down on average 24% in 2009 but rate of decline in Q3 fell to 5.8%
- An unknown percentage of the fish we eat isn't what's it's purported to be
- An Urban Legend
- Analysing the financial crisis and its aftermath
- Analysis - Dr. Peter Morici ; US economy loses 51,000 jobs in July
- Analysis: Irish Economy - Cowen and the 100 days' milestone - a Political Pygmy amongst the Oireachtas Lilliputians
- Analysts Think Worst Is Yet to Come
- Andie MacDowell Plans 'Green' House
- Andor Technology says trading has been very strong in the second half of this year
- Anglo Irish Bank announces new 1 year fixed rate offer at 6% gross
- Anglo Irish Bank begins legal proceedings for recovery of €8 million against former chief executive David Drumm
- Anglo Irish Bank Bill should be rejected; Huge known unknown for public finances
- Anglo Irish Bank chairman Donal O'Connor confirms State faces further multi-billion euro exposure
- Anglo Irish Bank expects earnings per share growth of about 15% for the year ending 30 September 2008
- Anglo Irish Bank had loans to 15 customers in excess of €500 million each in September 2008; Customers withdrew €5.44 billion in last week of month
- Anglo Irish Bank launches Premium Demand Account paying up to 5.3% gross/AER/variable
- Anglo Irish Bank launches the "highest paying demand account in Ireland"
- Anglo Irish Bank reports 37% drop in profit after €500 million bad debts charge
- Anglo Irish Bank reports a 17% increase in underlying pre-tax profits for the six months to the end of March
- Anglo Irish Bank reports €4.1bn loss for 6-months to March 31, 2009 - - greatest business loss in Irish history; State to inject €4.0bn; Losses of €7.5bn by 2011
- Anglo Irish Bank says total level of loans to directors stands at €179m - Where were the auditors Ernst & Young?
- Anglo Irish Bank sells Austrian private banking subsidiary to Swiss group
- Anglo Irish Bank to be nationalised; Europe's most successful bank during Irish property bubble becomes its biggest casualty
- Anglo Irish Bank to issue interim management statement today
- Anheuser Bid Stokes Angst in St. Louis
- Annual growth rate in Irish residential mortgages in May 2008 fell to 11.1% - the lowest rate since January 1992 - Central Bank
- Annual Irish Consumer Prices fell 5.4% in June; Services down 5.6%; Ex-mortgage interest, inflation down 1.6%
- Annual Irish factory gate/manufacturing prices rose 0.3% in July; US dollar key factor in Ireland bucking international trend
- Annual Irish Industrial Production increased by 2.7% in November 2008
- Annual Irish industrial production up 8.9% in July 2009; US-owned pharmaceutical sector surged 68.3%; Turnover down 11.8%
- Annual Irish Inflation falls to 4.3% in April; Rate for Services was 4.8% while Goods increased by 3.8%; Food up 8.1%
- Annual Irish Manufacturing Prices down 2.1% in August
- Annual Irish manufacturing prices down 2.1% in March
- Annual Irish Manufacturing Prices down 4.0% in April bucking international trend; Overwhelming dominance of multinationals impacts Irish data
- Annual Irish Manufacturing Prices up 0.1% in June
- Annual Irish manufacturing prices up 2% in May
- Annual Irish Manufacturing Prices up 3.2% in January; 4,179 days lost to industrial disputes in 2008
- Annual Irish Manufacturing Prices up 3.9% in year to February because of dollar impact in US dominated sector
- Annual Irish Manufacturing Prices up 4.5% in March; US dollar movement big factor
- Annual Irish manufacturing production in November 2009 was 9.1% lower than in November 2008
- Annual Irish manufacturing production increased by 3.1% in March 2010
- Annual Irish production decreased by 2.7% in April 2010
- Annual Irish Production fell by 6.7% in March 2009; US dominated chemicals and man-made fibres up 19.2%
- Annual Irish Production increased by 0.6% in September 2009; Pharmaceuticals up 42.1%; Computer, electronic and optical products down 44.4%
- Annual Irish production increased by 3.5% in year to October 2009; Turnover dipped 21.2% on price falls
- Annual Irish Production increased by 4.2% in August 2008 but down 1.9% in latest 3-month period
- Annual Irish Production increased by 9.3% in May 2008; Basic chemicals up 41.6%
- Annual Irish Production output fell by 4.3% in May 2009; 18.7% growth in pharmaceutical output offset losses in other sectors
- Annual Irish residential mortgage lending growth rate turned negative in November for first time since 1990; Non-housing personal debt fell 21%
- Annual price changes in US Case/Shiller city index rose in February for the first time since December 2006; Average home prices across United States back to 2003 levels
- Annual volume of Irish retail sales fell 14.1% in 2009 - -down 18% in value terms; Sales rose 0.4% in December
- Anonymous donor offers €500,000 for graduates in Ireland to undertake Masters at UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School
- Another CMBS Bright Spot
- Another Full Year Of Housing Pain?
- Another Russian Tycoon Buys in Snowmass
- Anti-Lisbon Treaty campaigner Declan Ganley both supporter and opponent of European farm subsidies
- Apartment Leases, Rentals Pick Up
- Apartments Try to Stay Afloat
- Apollo of Petrograd
- Apollo Raises Stakes on Realogy Wager
- Apollo Signs Citigroup Deal
- Apple launches new iPhone 3G starting at $199 in US; Will be first available from July 11 in 22 countries including Ireland
- Apple launches the iPad
- Apple overtakes Microsoft as the world's most valuable technology company
- Apple profits rise 36% as Mac sales surge 51% in its fiscal 2008 second quarter
- Apple reports 15% jump in quarterly profit; Unable to supply enough iPhones and Mac computers to meet demand
- Apple reports 9% rise in revenues and 15% surge in profit in fiscal second quarter as iPhone sales more than double to 3.8 million units
- Apple reports another blowout quarter as profit surges 90%; Yahoo! posts sharp rise in earnings with help from Microsoft
- Apple reports another bumper quarter as profit surged 78%
- Apple reports blowout fiscal 2010 first quarter; Jobs says annualising quarterly revenue, tech leader is now $50+ billion company
- Apple reports profit of $1.07 billion in fiscal 2008 third quarter - a rise of 31%; Shares fall 11% on outlook
- Apple reports strong fiscal first quarter; 4.4 million iPhones shipped; Intel to shed up to 6,000 jobs worldwide
- Apple's fiscal fourth-quarter profit jumps 47% on record quarterly sales for Mac computers and iPhones
- Appraisal Market to Be Regulated from
- Appraiser’s promise: Is it in your report?
- Area north of the Arctic Circle has an estimated 90 billion barrels of Oil and 1,670 trillion cubic feet of Natural Gas says the US Geological Survey
- As Banks Balk, Builders Go Elsewhere
- As Buildings Empty, Banks' Credit Woes Pile Up
- As Dues Dry Up, The Neighbors Pay
- As Vacancies Grow, Landlords Open Wallets
- Asia 2010 growth forecast upgraded - - region will be responsible for 60% of global growth of 4.4%; World's Emerging Markets will account for 75% of growth
- Asia Key Indicators 2008: Asian Development Bank offers new way to measure poverty in the Asia and Pacific region
- Asia rebounding fast from economic slump says IMF
- Asia recovers but challenges ahead as China cancels steel plant sale in response to worker protests
- Asia Service Sector: Japan moderately fell in May; Rate of expansion of Chinese firms was the slowest in 12 months; India's services economy also cooled
- Asia's importance growing in global economy; Forecast to be bigger than the US and EU combined by 2030
- Asia-Pacific Business & Finance News w/e Nov 30, 2008: China warns about impact of global financial crisis; Japan's biggest business organization wants workers to have more sex
- Asia-Pacific Business & Finance News W/E November 09, 2008: China announces huge $586 billion economic stimulus package
- Asia-Pacific Business & Finance News w/e November 16, 2008: Asia accounts for 61% of 623,805 foreign students in the United States
- Asia-Pacific Business & Finance News Week-Ending August 09, 2008 - Beijing Olympics symbolises rise of China as economic and political power
- Asia-Pacific Business & Finance News Week-Ending August 30, 2008 - - Ten years required to build sustainable talent base of engineers and designers for China's industry
- Asia-Pacific Business & Finance News Week-Ending July 26, 2008
- Asia-Pacific Business & Finance News Week-Ending June 14, 2008
- Asia-Pacific Business & Finance News Week-ending June 21, 2008: South Korean President forced to retreat from reforms by mass demonstrations
- Asia-Pacific Business & Finance News Week-Ending June 28, 2008
- Asia-Pacific Business & Finance News Week-Ending October 04, 2008: China's contaminated milk scandal raises food safety concerns across Asia
- Asia-Pacific Business & Finance News Week-Ending October 18, 2008 - - China's economic growth slowed sharply in the third quarter
- Asia-Pacific Business & Finance News Week-Ending October 25, 2008 - - Financial turmoil hits East Asia's giants - Japan, China and South Korea
- Asia-Pacific Business & Finance News Week-Ending September 13, 2008 - - Chinese report says 70% of public surveyed say government officials benefited the most from economic development in the past decade
- Asia-Pacific Business & Finance News Week-Ending September 20, 2008: China confident of maintaining growth momentum despite global economic slowdown
- Asia-Pacific Business & Finance News Week-Ending September 27, 2008: Indian business community shocked by the workplace mob killing of a manger of a European multinational by former contract workers
- Asia-Pacific Business & Finance News: Japan’s export slide slowed to 45.6% slump in March compared with year ago; GDP in 2009 to be revised down to -3%
- Asia-Pacific Business & Finance News: China may review its economic growth target of 8% in 2009
- Asia-Pacific Business & Finance News: China says at least 5% of 130 million migrant workers have returned home since late 2008
- Asia-Pacific Business & Finance News: China's exports fell sharply in April
- Asia-Pacific Business & Finance News: Chinese Lunar New Year - 1 million lose their jobs as Year of the Ox begins
- Asia-Pacific Business & Finance News: East Asian economies are forecast to grow in 2009 at the slowest pace in eight years
- Asia-Pacific Business & Finance News: India’s biggest discount retailer says hundreds of its stores were vandalised after it failed to pay its security guards
- Asia-Pacific Business & Finance News: Japan reports stunning 49.4% plunge in exports in February - - the steepest fall since 1957
- Asia-Pacific Business & Finance News: Japan's business confidence plunges to 34-year low; China - 30 years after historic decision on economic reform
- Asia-Pacific Business & Finance News: Production at Chinese manufacturers declined for the seventh successive month in February
- Asia-Pacific Business & Finance News: US firm warns PC makers over Chinese censorship software
- Asia-Pacific Business and Finance News - - Week-ending July 12, 2008
- Asia-Pacific Business and Finance News Week-ending August 02, 2008: Hu says Beijing Olympic Games belongs to the Chinese people and, more importantly, to people across the world
- Asia-Pacific Business and Finance News Week-ending July 19, 2008: Olympic Games hurdles for Beijing businesses
- Asia-Pacific Business and Finance News Week-ending June 07, 2008: Indians, Malaysians and Indonesians protest against fuel price hikes; Thousands of Koreans rally against US beef
- Asia-Pacific Business and Finance News: Toyota expects first loss in 71 years; Japan's exports plunge; Sales of South Korea's national drink Soju soar
- Asia-Pacific Business and Finance News: Toyota names founder’s grandson to head group as sales slump
- Asia-Pacific Business News - - Week ending April 26, 2008: Vietnam grows at stunning speed
- Asia-Pacific Business News - - Week ending July 05, 2008: China outlines plan to ensure at least 95% self-sufficiency in grain supply
- Asia-Pacific Business News - - Week ending May 03, 2008: India considering a blanket ban on trading in food futures
- Asia-Pacific Business News - - Week ending May 10, 2008: China considers buying land in Africa and South America to provide food security
- Asia-Pacific Business News - - Week ending May 17, 2008: Mongolia is a vast and predominantly empty landscape but is experiencing a property boom
- Asia-Pacific Business News - - Week ending May 24, 2008: Sony Chief urges his managers to get "mad"
- Asia-Pacific Business News - - Week ending May 31, 2008: Asian countries prepare to cut costly fuel subsidies
- Asia-Pacific Business News: Japan’s Prime Minister Aso calls General Election for August 30th; Ruling LDP facing second defeat since 1955
- Asian business wakes up to "Desperate in Dublin" and sabotage in Mayo
- Asian central banks intervene to slow fall of US dollar; IMF asks if large reserves helped countries during the financial crisis?
- Asian cities close in on London and New York in Global Financial Centres Index; Dublin tumbles 13 places
- Asian Development Bank report says if crop yields in major producing countries could be raised to world average, global production of wheat would rise by about 17% and rice by 23%
- Asian Development Bank says era of cheap food is over
- Asian Economic Integration is good for US and Global Economy says Asian Development Bank study
- Asian economies poised for accelerated growth as global economic crisis recedes
- Asian growth losing steam fast amid Global Downturn - - IMF
- Asia’s rising “clean technology tigers” - - China, Japan, and South Korea - - to overtake United States
- Asia’s SMEs well placed for the regional recovery
- Asking prices for Irish houses fell 4.2% in the first three months of 2009
- Asking prices for Irish property fell on average 15% in 2007
- Asking prices for Irish residential property fell about 20% in 12 months to June 2009
- At GGP, Drama Remains
- At Marriott, Finance Chief Is Promoted
- Atlantic City Seeks Casino Investors
- Attention Home Buyers: Lock in Your Rate
- Austin's Real-Estate Glut
- Australia adds 32,200 jobs in July as the economy continues to outpace other developed nations
- Australia heads ranking of 24 OECD countries for best institutional growth conditions; Ireland gets 5th ranking
- Australia Lending Plan May Be Derailed
- Australia raises benchmark interest rate to 3.25% - - first G-20 central bank to hike; Economists see subtle shift to monetary tightening
- Australia's GDP rose 0.6% in second quarter of 2009; Also up 0.6% in 12 months to June
- Australian group bids €95 million for Irish telco Eircom
- Australia’s unemployment rate fell to 5.7% in November - - leads developed world in post-recession job creation
- Avenue Capital Plan Picked for Trump Casinos
- Average Irish national house prices fell by 1.1% in September - down 10.6% in 12-month period
- Average age of world's 435 nuclear power plants is 25 years; 75% of Western Europe's plants in last half of life
- Average earnings show annual decrease of 11.1% in the Irish financial sector
- Average Irish household is responsible for emitting approximately 8.1 tonnes of CO2 annually; Energy usage per dwelling in 2006 was 27% above the average for the UK
- Average Irish national house price fell 1.8% in October - - down 13.9% in 12-month period but based on low-sample size
- Average Irish national house price fell by 1.5% in June; Prices down 7.7% in first six months of 2009
- Average Irish national house prices accelerated to 1.9% decline in month of April 2009; In the first four months of 2009 national house prices have fallen by 4.9%
- Average Irish national house prices dropped 12.5% in year to July; down 23% from February 2007 peak but likely further to fall
- Average Irish national house prices fell 10.2% in the year to October
- Average Irish national house prices fell 18.9% in year to Q1 2010
- Average Irish national house prices fell 9.6% in year to November
- Average Irish national house prices fell by 0.9% in August; Prices down prices by 9.9% in 12-month period
- Average Irish national house prices fell by 1.0% in March 2009; Down 10.0% in 12-month period; National prices now back to November 2004 levels
- Average Irish national house prices fell by 9.7% in year July
- Average Irish residential property values down 20% in 2009; 40-50% from peak to trough price dip forecast; IAVI says market close to a floor
- Average national house prices in Ireland fell by 18.5% in 2009 compared with 9.1% in 2008 - - 31.5% dip since peak in February 2007 and maybe more
- Average price of a hotel room in Ireland falls by 17% year in 2008
- Average tax burden on workers’ earnings fell in most OECD countries last year
- Average weekly earnings in Irish Public Sector (ex Health) rose 3.4% in year to March 2009; Employment rose 2,900 - - up 20,000 in three years
- Average weekly Irish earnings in distribution and business services up by 2.7 % in 2007
- Aviation ground handling firm Aviance to exit Dublin Airport with 150 job losses; Aer Lingus to cut 200 jobs
- Avoiding Loan Rejections
- Bündchen, Brady Re-List Properties
- Babcock & Brown loses almost 50% of its value in a week; BCM says Irish telco Eircom will not be impacted by turmoil in Sydney
- Back to the bad old days?; The return of protectionism
- Backlash Hits Calpers Property Deals
- Bad Timing for London Mall's Debut
- Bailout Is No Quick Fix for Housing Woes
- Bakery group Aryzta reports pre-tax profits of €218 million for year ended 31 July 2008
- Ban on Down-Payment Aid Is Fought
- BaNama Republic, NAMA and "long term economic value" as "demographics" is disinterred from bubble wreckage
- Bank for International Settlements says world debt borrowings plunged sharply in Q3 2008
- Bank for International Settlements warns financial products should be certified safe like medicines
- Bank of America posts 41% decrease in second-quarter net income; Stock rises more than 9%
- Bank of America's net income fell 77% in first quarter
- Bank of England credit survey signals lenders plan to continue to tighten loan rules; UK new construction orders fell 13% in 3 months to May 2008
- Bank of England cuts benchmark interest rate to 1% - - a new all-time low since the Bank was founded in 1694
- Bank of England cuts benchmark rate to 1.5% - the lowest since the bank was established in 1694
- Bank of England cuts benchmark rate to 2% - lowest level since 1951; Rate has never been lower since 1694 - -in 314 years
- Bank of England cuts its forecast for UK economic growth; No respite from slowdown as unemployment rose the most in almost 16 years
- Bank of England cuts UK growth forecast to negative 4.5%; Recovery will take time
- Bank of England expected to keep benchmark interest rate on hold as consumer confidence plummets
- Bank of England governor calls for banks to be split into separate utility companies and risky ventures
- Bank of England holds benchmark interest rate at 5.0%
- Bank of England Hopes Gilt Works
- Bank of England in dramatic move cuts benchmark interest rate 1.5% to 3%; Lowest rate since 1955
- Bank of England keeps benchmark interest rate at 0.5% - - the lowest since 1694; Increases asset purchase size by £50 billion to £175 billion
- Bank of England keeps benchmark interest rate on hold at 5%
- Bank of England keeps benchmark interest rate unchanged at 5% despite recession fears
- Bank of England keeps benchmark rate at 0.5% - - the lowest in 315 years
- Bank of England keeps benchmark rate at 5%; Halifax says UK house prices fell at a record annual pace in June
- Bank of England keeps key interest rate at 0.5% - - a 315-year low; Increases size of Asset Purchase Programme by £50 billion to £125 billion
- Bank of England launches £50 billion sterling bank liquidity scheme to unfreeze London credit markets; Key 3-month Libor inter-bank rate fell slightly
- Bank of England minutes show policymakers voted 8-1 to keep interest rates on hold
- Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee voted 8-1 to keep its benchmark interest rate at 5% in May
- Bank of England official says no evidence of bigger being better in banking; UK regulation should risk losing some financial business
- Bank of England says Monetary Policy Committee split three ways in the July decision to keep interest rates on hold
- Bank of England says worst of credit crisis is over
- Bank of England signals more rate cuts as UK economy shrinks; Unemployment rises
- Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee keeps benchmark rate on hold at 5%
- Bank of Ireland and Irish Life & Permanent issue statements on merger/takeover approaches
- Bank of Ireland announces 94.6% take-up of Rights Issue shares
- Bank of Ireland announces First Time Buyers 1 year fixed rate of 2.95%
- Bank of Ireland announces resignation of Brian Goggin as Group Chief Executive
- Bank of Ireland announces €1 billion fund for First Time Buyers
- Bank of Ireland Business Banking says the number new Irish companies formed in 2008 fell 21%
- Bank of Ireland condemns IBOA threat of one-day strike as “completely unwarranted and against the interests of staff and customers.”
- Bank of Ireland cuts fixed rate mortgages
- Bank of Ireland economist Dan McLaughlin says Irish economy has been hit by three shocks; Economy to contract by 1.6% this year
- Bank of Ireland economist says Irish house prices are falling at a reduced pace; However July price data may not be good indicator of trend
- Bank of Ireland expects to receive a 30% on €16 billion of NAMA loan transfers; Several shareholders make angry interventions at EGM
- Bank of Ireland in discussions with institutional investors on capital raise
- Bank of Ireland issues update on stolen laptops
- Bank of Ireland keeps expected bad debt charge at €6 billion: Downside risks may exist; Warns of negative impact on net interest margin
- Bank of Ireland launches independent mentoring initiative targeted at its SME customers
- Bank of Ireland launches €100 million fund for renewable energy projects in Ireland - - €200m earmarked for the sector
- Bank of Ireland launches €250m fund to support Irish businesses
- Bank of Ireland Life announces launch of second series of what its terms its "highly successful Guarantee Plus - Investment Bond."; €40 million invested in the first series
- Bank of Ireland loan transfers to NAMA may be subject to "haircut" of less than 20%
- Bank of Ireland Private Banking says equity markets may now have hit the bottom of the cycle and that investors should be alert to the potential for recovery
- Bank of Ireland raises mortgage rates; 3-month Euribor inter-bank rates in the Eurozone rise to new 2008 high
- Bank of Ireland reports 32% fall in pre-tax profits to €650m for the six months to the end of September
- Bank of Ireland reports half-year pre-tax loss of €979m
- Bank of Ireland reports loss of €1.8bn for the nine months to December 31, 2009 after bad debt charges of €4.1bn
- Bank of Ireland reports loss of €1.8bn for the nine months to December 31, 2009 after bad debt charges of €4.1bn
- Bank of Ireland reports loss of €7 million in year ended 31 March 2009; Governor resigns; Loan impairment charge rises to €1.4 billion
- Bank of Ireland reports profit before tax of €1.93 billion for the year ended 31 March 2008: Underlying Earnings Per Share up 4%
- Bank of Ireland says interest rates could still fall this year in the Eurozone despite inflation and fall further in the UK
- Bank of Ireland says new Irish company registrations fell 18.4% in the first quarter compared to Q1 2008
- Bank of Ireland says slowing economic growth continues to adversely impact earnings; Slowdown most pronounced in the Retail businesses in Ireland
- Bank of Ireland sells €1 billion bond; Six Irish-owned guaranteed banks and building societies have raised €10 billion in the bond markets since October 2008
- Bank of Ireland shareholders told exposure to UK mortgage market may be reason for weak share price - Loss of over 9% Tuesday; Deposit and Loan rates raised
- Bank of Ireland tells Office of the European Competition Commissioner that it will not require any more State aid
- Bank of Ireland to contact over 10,000 of its life assurance customers over four stolen laptops containing confidential data
- Bank of Ireland to raise €3.421bn in equity tier 1 capital; Says Q1 trading conditions in Ireland and UK challenging
- Bank of Ireland to reduce its workforce by 750 staff over the next two years
- Bank of Ireland to refund €3m to ATM users who over 4-year period left the money from cash withdrawals in the ATM
- Bank of Ireland to sell New Ireland Assurance, the ICS Building Society and Bank of Ireland Asset Management
- Bank of Ireland warns "trading conditions have become increasingly difficult"
- Bank of Ireland's Dan McLaughlin forecasts ECB rate rise in July
- Bank of Ireland's Dan McLaughlin forecasts ECB rate rise in July
- Bank of Ireland's Dan McLaughlin says Irish housing affordability set to improve; ECB still on course for 2 interest rate cuts in 2008
- Bank of Japan cuts benchmark interest rate to 0.3%
- Bank of Japan cuts economic growth forecast and leaves benchmark interest rate on hold at 0.5%
- Bank of Japan keeps benchmark interest rate at 0.5% - cuts economic growth forecast
- Bank of Japan keeps benchmark interest rate on hold at 0.5%; Says economic growth is slowing due to high energy and materials' prices
- Bank of Japan raises outlook for economy for the first time in almost three years
- Bank of Japan says economy is on recovery trend; Deflation persists but other data was positive including strong growth in in manufacturing
- Bank of Scotland (Ireland) pledges €1 billion of Irish lending in 2009; Irish Banking Federation says banks will provid strong support to Irish business during slowdown
- Bank of Scotland Ireland to close Halifax network with loss of 750 jobs; Entry to Irish mortgage market in 1999 resulted in significant increase in competition
- Bank of Ireland welcomes €3.5bn investment by Irish Government; Expects €4.5bn in bad debt losses over 3-year period
- Bankers and investors expect euro to continue to slide; New global reserve currency required to replace fraying dollar
- Bankers Exit CBRE for Jones Lang LaSalle
- Bankers Seek Place in the Sun
- Bankers' Group Burned
- Banks Are Freezing Lines of Credit
- Banks Are Open for Real-Estate Pain
- Banks Begin to Rein In Branch Boom
- Banks cut foreign loans in biggest fall in at least 30 years - - in the fourth quarter of 2008
- Banks Jettison Commercial-Property Debt
- Banks Often Extend Sour Property Loans
- Banks Quick to Adopt New Loan Rules
- Banks Rein In Branch Boom
- Banks to Launch Covered Bonds
- Banks Toughen Terms on Loans
- Banks want to be at heart of changes to regulation; Current proposals would cut employment creation by 5m jobs in Eurozone over 10 years
- Banque de France Governor says benefits of globalisation through cheap goods from low-cost markets to Europe can no longer be relied on to contain inflation
- Barbados Shores Up Four Seasons
- Barclays Equity Gilt Study 2009: Past 10 years "lost decade" for shares; US annualised return since 1998 fourth-worst 10-year return of past 83 years
- Barclays Turns Developer
- Bargain Hunters Look at Dubai
- Bargain-Hunting at the Mall
- Bargaining Is Out of Place
- Barrier-free tolling on the M50 in Dublin has reduced average travel times in either direction by 5.5 minutes
- Barroso says no "firm recovery" has taken hold in Europe’s economy
- Barroso to resist lobbying for plum jobs on next Commission; Dutch renominate opposition party politician Neelie Kroes
- Basel Committee on Banking Supervision proposes closing regulatory loophole that facilitated banks to own the complex assets which have incurred huge losses
- Battle of Wireless Telephony Begins
- Battle Over Lehman's Real-Estate Carcass
- Battling Beetles in the Garden
- Beal Bank Makes Play For Trump Casinos
- Bears Crept Away
- Beaten-Down Markets Find New Fans
- Beazer Posts Narrower Loss
- Beazer Restates Results for 9 Years
- Behind a Bankruptcy Brouhaha
- Behind Lehman's Faith in Real Estate
- Behind the Boom and Bust of Vesta
- Beijing Hotels Face a Glut of Rooms
- Beijing's Cooldown Likely to Be Short-Lived
- Belgian, Dutch and Luxembourg governments in partial nationalisation of Fortis banking/insurance group; UK to nationalise Bradford & Bingley - its biggest lender in buy-to-let market
- Bell Tolls on a Debt-Heavy Plan
- Bernanke sees modest US economic growth next year; OECD says US should raise federal funding on jobs programmes for young people
- Bernanke's prospects of winning a second term as Federal Reserve chairman improve
- Best Managed Irish Companies Awards programme for 2010 launched
- Best Managed Irish Companies: Two weeks left to apply for inaugural year of innovative business awards programme
- Better and better: A year in review and a look ahead
- Between 2000 and 2009 EU27 trade with Japan plunged
- Beverly Hills Development in Doubt
- Bid for Universality
- Big 4 accounting firm PwC says first year fees for winding up Lehman Brothers Europe total £266 million
- Big Chinese Firms Take to the Skyline
- Big Hotel Planned Next to Sears Tower
- Big industrial users of energy in huge price hikes; Dow Chemical to also idle plants in Europe and US
- Big losses at insurance giant AIG and Freddie Mac dim hopes of early end to credit crisis; US housing market only halfway through downward cycle; House prices to fall a further 20%
- Big Palm Beach Deals
- Big Risk in Midtown
- Big US banks/ securities firms to pay record $145bn for 2009; Earnings rise 18% at 38 firms - - above pre-crash record year of 2007
- Big-Name Investors Pounce
- Big-Name Investors Start to Pounce
- Bill Gates' last day as Microsoft employee
- Bill Gross - - founder of world's biggest bond fund - - says debt imbalances essence of problem of global weakness
- Billion-dollar bond fund manager Bill Gross says US trillion-dollar deficits are here to stay
- Billionaire Set to Buy Trump Mansion
- Biofuels do little to help the climate: Reform of EU regulations is needed
- Biofuels: Scientists warn use of wild grasses in biofuel production as alternative to food crops could create economic and ecological havoc
- Black Monday for jobs as more than 100,000 cuts reported in US, Japan, Netherlands, UK and Ireland
- Black or illegal economies in countries can help in a recession but dishonest activity must be on sizeable scale
- Blackrock International Land reports pre-tax losses of almost €8m for the first half 2008
- Blackrock International Land reports pre-tax losses of almost €8m for the first half 2008
- Blackrock International Land says lack of increase in property values disappointing
- Blackstone Joins Extended Stay Bid
- Blackstone to Manage BofA Fund
- Blockbuster Begging
- Bloxham launches Financial Recovery Bond - Says:“Strong banks will get stronger”
- BMB, Alliance Capital Merge
- BOE Policy Dove Favors More Rate Cuts
- Boeing's 787 Dreamliner due to make its first test flight - - almost two and a half years late due to distributed manufacturing model
- BofA Ends Overdraft Fees on Debit Buys
- BofA Feels Bite of Move Into Mortgage-Backed Securities
- BofA Lawyers Rebuked in Cabi Case
- BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager December Survey finds investors looking to 2010 as year of moderate economic growth, benign inflation and solid returns in global equities
- BofA's Secret: Real-Estate Banking
- Bonds Tied to Mortgages Have Hope
- Bonus Time in Manhattan Real Estate
- Book Review: Ireland, Europe and the World -- Dan O'Brien
- Booking Bets on Hotel Luxury
- Bookstores in a Real-Estate Bind
- Boom or bust - - Big accounting firms still in the money but should they be trusted?
- Bord Gáis announces interim increase in gas retail prices of 20% from 1st September 2008
- Bord Gáis announces purchase of windfarm development in the West of Ireland and investment of about €50 million
- Bord Gáis Energy announces entry into Ireland’s residential electricity market
- Bord Gáis Energy Index Increases 1% in June; Gas glut to benefit Europe as "Gas OPEC" is currently toothless
- Bord Gáis reports pre-tax profits of €166m for 2007; Seeking price increase of up to 19%
- Bord Pleanála refuses Sean Dunne permission to develop on Jurys Hotel/Berkeley Court hotel sites; NIMBIES triumph again with veto on high-rise
- Borrowers to Banks: Show Me the Money
- Boston Properties Bows Out
- Boston Properties CEO Dies
- Boston Properties' Profit Falls, but Beats Its View
- Boston Scientific share price fall to 52-week low linked to liquidation of Lehman Brothers
- Boston Scientific to invest €21.7 million in a Research and Development project in Cork
- Both Good and Bad News
- Boxer consortium pulls out of Irish digital terrestrial television plans
- Boyd Gaming Delays Vegas Project
- BP announces "giant" oil discovery in the deepwater of Gulf of Mexico
- BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2008: Energy Consumption rises as Supplies Lag says oil giant; Oil price has been on an upward path for more than six years - longest period since 1861
- BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2009: Developing World leapfrogs sluggish OECD in energy demand; Ex-Canada's tar sands oil reserves sufficient for 42 years at 2008 production
- BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2010: Recession drove 2009 energy demand lower; Oil giant says global reserves sufficient to meet 2009 production for 45.7 years
- BP suspend dividends this year; Set aside $20bn to cover claims relating to Gulf of Mexico oil spill
- Bracing for a Quake
- Brazil's Rain Forests Give Way to Malls
- Breaking Into Your Own House
- Breakthrough of the Year, or a Big Game
- Breakthrough of the Year, or a Big Game
- Brian Cowen and his "educated" Government on its first anniversary
- Bribery, patronage and other public corruption costs Greece 8% of its GDP or more than €20bn annually
- BRIC manufacturers’ confidence falls sharply at start of 2009 as global economic downturn bites
- BRIC outward FDI - the dragon will outpace the jaguar, the tiger and the bear
- BRICs as emerging international financial power
- BRICs drive global economic recovery
- Brisk Bidding for Failed-Bank Loans
- Brisk Commercial Development Takes Breather
- Britain’s commercial property in September had largest monthly capital growth since June 2006 - - contained by continued falling rents
- British Airways reports 45% rise in pre-tax profits
- British Airways warns it will have to raise fares and axe routes because of high fuel costs
- British Airways, American Airlines and Spain's Iberia SA sign joint business agreement on flights between North America and Europe
- British Bank Sued Over Building Sales
- British Land's Strategy Shift Raises Eyebrows
- Britvic says Irish annual sales were £99.5m
- Brixton Poses a Test for Segro
- Brixton's Test: Raising Cash
- Broadband plans for 66 more Irish towns -- e|net selected as preferred bidder
- Broadening Eurozone recovery gathered pace in April; Growth of services rose to two-and-a-half year peak; Manufacturing at highest level since June 2006
- Broadway Partners Faces the Music
- Brokers Find the Money
- Brookfield Fund Buys J.P. Morgan Properties
- Brookfield Holds to General Growth Offer
- Brookfield Letter May Aid Maguire CEO
- Brookfield Wagers on D.C.
- Brookfield, Simon Position to Bid on General Growth
- Brown says climate change deal may not be agreed; Money remains key stumbling block
- Brown says: "We...saved the world..."; Sterling falls to record against Euro and Germany criticises the UK's “crass Keynesianism”
- Brown signals no new big UK fiscal stimulus planned as bond auction fails
- BT Ireland says a strong performance for the full year to the end of March 2008 boosted by broadband growth
- Budget 2010 Day Ireland: A focus on spending cuts rather than taxation is expected
- Budget Travel to close 14 retail outlets and cut 95 jobs; Irish tour operator business is down 40%
- Budweiser maker Anheuser-Busch agrees takeover by Stella Artois maker InBev in $52 billion deal that will create the world's biggest brewer
- Builder Group Shifts Tax Break Stance
- Builder Soho China Stumbles in Beijing
- Builders Feel Pinch of Key Omission From Bill
- Builders Make Plea for Federal Aid
- Builders Net Win in N.Y. Case
- Builders Tout Home Incentives
- Building a Well to Skirt Water Restrictions
- Building an indigenous Irish exporting base; Being prepared for a hard slog and the sheltered workshop that is RTÉ
- Building vs. Buying
- Built-to-Suit: To Each Their Own. Three Rivers California Real Estate
- Bumpy Recovery in the U.K.
- Bundesbank president opposed ECB decision to purchase government bonds
- Burkle Angles for Barneys Stake
- Burrows to become chairman of British American Tobacco - - a journey from whiskey via boomtime Irish banking
- Bush approves $17.4 billion rescue package for US auto makers
- Bush asks Congress to approve $770 million in new global food aid
- Bush asks Congress to approve $770 million in new global food aid
- Bush Picks Preston for HUD
- Bush Pushes European Lending Plan
- Bush says US risks “long and painful recession”; McCain/Obama to meet at White House; Stress in credit markets rises - Spanish bank offers free cars for opening long-term, interest-free deposits
- Bush Signs Housing Bill
- Business Center on the Line
- Business Climate Index and the Economic Sentiment Index up sharply in the Eurozone in March
- Business Climate Indicator and Economic Sentiment Indicator in the Eurozone fell sharply in October
- Business Climate Indicator for the Eurozone declines in June; Economic sentiment also falls
- Business Climate Indicator for the Eurozone picks up slightly in May; Economic Sentiment Indicator unchanged
- Business confidence among service companies in EU and BRIC regions rises; Marked improvement in UK; China also strong
- Business economists say US economy should expand at a solid pace this year and next
- Business models of debtor states have collapsed; Germany's banks switch from exporting capital to domestic support
- Business Objects - unit of German software company SAP - to invest €29 million in establishing a R&D Centre in Dublin
- Business-Property Outlook Sours
- Businesses Bring the Green to Portland
- Businesses Taking Less Office Space
- Businessman Philip Lynch calls for all-Party Irish Government to be established
- Buyer's Remorse Hits Vegas Project
- Buying a Sense of Security for the Home
- Buyout Fund Contemplates a REIT Turn
- C&AG report highlights "shortcomings" in Irish Financial Regulator which contributed to banking crash
- C&AG says €27.3m written-off on dud Irish public service web portal; €15m in fees for “stabilising...banking sector”; Farm scheme cost rockets from €248m to €1.1bn
- C&C boosted by good summer and rise of sterling against the euro
- C&C Group reports fall in cider revenue in both UK and Ireland; Outlook uncertain
- C&C Group says revenue to end August will fall 8%; Current difficult market conditions to continue throughout the second half of the year
- C&C reports 37% fall in full year operating profits related to plunge sales of Magners cider in UK
- C&C reports annual loss of €60.9m
- C&C reports decline in revenue and profit in six months to August; Resignation of CEO Maurice Pratt
- C&C reports pre-tax profits of €57m for the six months to the end of August
- C&C reports revenue down 5% in 5 month to July; To acquire Anheuser-Busch InBev operations in Ireland/Scotland
- C&C reports revenue down 5% in 5 month to July; To acquire Anheuser-Busch InBev operations in Ireland/Scotland
- C&C says cider market challenging
- C&C says it slipped up on cider figures
- C&C says sales revenue in year ended Feb 28, 2009 down 13%; Market conditions in Ireland and GB are "getting worse"
- Cabinet approves draft legislation on Irish "bad bank" NAMA; Blanks remain to be filled on key aspects of plan
- Calculus of globalization becomes more complicated with high price of oil; Shipping cost is on average the equivalent of a 9% tariff on trade
- California Cities Cut Police Budgets
- California Frets Fire's Early Start
- California Seeks to Curb Sprawl
- Call for government strategy that puts food sector at heart of Irish economy
- Calls Rise for Public Control of Water
- Calpers Confronts Huge Housing Losses
- Calpers Takes Hit on Land Deal
- Calpers Weighs Booting BlackRock
- Campaign for Change at One51 dissidents announce nominees for election to board of One51 at AGM
- Can China become the engine for world economic growth?
- Can China become the engine for world economic growth?
- Can emerging economies save the world economy?
- Can Houses Be Sold Like Art?
- Canary Wharf Gets J.P. Morgan
- Cancellations Hit Toll Brothers
- CapitaLand Bets on China Property
- CapitaLand's Net Profit Drops 33%
- Capitalism entering a new era of lower risk tolerance, higher regulation and slower growth
- Capmark Seeks Chapter 11
- Cappoquin Chickens at risk of closure with 150 full-time job losses
- Car sales in August down 41.6% in Ireland, 41.3% in Spain and 7.1% in France
- Carlos Slim to Buy New York Building
- Cars licensed in Ireland in March jumped 68.5% from the same month last year
- Case-Shiller: House Prices Fall 14%
- Cashing In on a Real-Estate Boom
- Cashing In on Real Estate
- Casino Empire Takes Fresh Hits
- Casino Succession in Question
- Cavalier Homes to Be Acquired
- CB Diversified -- at Debt-Heavy Cost
- CBRE Back in 1540 Broadway Mix
- Ceilings Come Down to Earth
- Celtic Tiger Aftermath: Guilty Irish politicians remain in denial and clover while ignoring their victims
- Celtic Tiger RIP: "How we blew the boom"; RTÉ's Crony Ireland Insiders and well-paid wage slaves in denial
- Centerbridge Wins Extended Stay Auction
- Centerbridge, Paulson Ups Extended Stay Offer
- Centerline Holding in Danger of Default
- Central Bank and Financial Regulator announce new Irish corporate governance standards for banks and insurance companies
- Central Bank and Financial Regulator say review of Irish banks’ mortgage lending policy for first time buyers shows practices need to be improved
- Central Bank governor says Ireland's two biggest banks AIB and Bank of Ireland have passed its stress tests -- which are more severe than ongoing Eurozone tests
- Central Bank Governor says Irish economy will begin to recover in 2010 but it will be "extended and gradual"
- Central Bank reports continued decline in Irish credit to non-financial corporations in March; Residential mortgage lending outstanding fell again
- Central Bank says annual growth rate of Irish residential mortgages dropped to 9.6% in July - the lowest since December 1987
- Central Bank says annual rate of growth of Irish residential mortgages in October fell to a 22-year low
- Central Bank says annual rate of increase in Irish residential mortgages fell to 5.4% in January 2009 - - the lowest annual rate of increase since 1986
- Central Bank says annual rate of increase in Irish residential mortgages fell to 9% in August - the lowest increase since mid-1987
- Central Bank says annual rate of increase in Irish residential mortgages in September lowest in 22 years - since September 1986
- Central Bank says annual rate of increase of Irish residential mortgage lending fell to 5.8% in December - - the lowest annual rise since 1986
- Central Bank says in 2009 credit ex-valuations effects dipped 3.2% for Irish non-financial corporations; Household credit dropped 1.5% and residential mortgages were 0.3% lower
- Central Bank says Irish bank lending continued to fall in June; Residential mortgage lending dropped for third straight month
- Central Bank says Irish Non-Financial Credit fell again in May; Residential mortgages dipped €352m to €145.8bn
- Central Bank says Irish private-sector credit rose to 17.1% annual rate in March; Residential mortgage growth rate fell to the lowest annual rate since 1992
- Central Bank says Irish residential mortgage growth fell to 11.4% annual rate in April - the lowest annual rate since 1992
- Central Bank says Irish residential mortgage lending at historic low in May; Annual growth rate of Private Sector Credit plunged to 0.8% compared with 15.1% in May 2008
- Central Bank says Irish residential mortgage lending fell for seventh straight month
- Central Bank says Irish residential mortgage lending outstanding fell in July for the fourth straight month; Total private sector credit dipped again
- Central Bank says Irish residential mortgages growth fell in June to the lowest since December 1991
- Central Bank says net monthly increase in Irish residential mortgage credit in March was at historic low of €20 million
- Central European economies depend on Developed Europe for 70% of their exports as remittances fall; Austria faces headwinds
- Centro Avoids Liquidation With Debt Deal
- Centro Sees a Net Loss, Sells Assets
- Centro to Sell Fund's U.S. Malls
- Centro's Structure Fends Off Creditors
- Chairman of Irish Financial Regulator says some of the behaviour of banks' top executives has been totally unacceptable
- Chance of a bottoming out in China provides hope for East Asia on an otherwise gloomy horizon says World Bank
- Changes to Irish Tax Policy can support Economic Growth and Competitiveness - NCC
- Chapter 12: A New Identity
- Charlie McCreevy awarded gold medal; What should be the prize for failure: a wooden nickel?
- Chartered Accountants say credit dries up for Irish small business; Expected in recession and no comparative historical data is available
- Chartered Institute of Management Accountants students/unqualified in Ireland earn €49,565; Fully qualified CIMA member earned average of €99,419
- Chartered Surveyors warn Irish construction sector output likely to fall to €14 billion by 2010 – down from €39 billion in 2007; Construction costs now at year 2000 levels
- Check the Real Estate: It's Time to Delve In
- Cheerleader of spin calls for Irish good news agenda
- Cher Asks $45 Million for Malibu Estate
- Chicago Landmark Teeters
- Chief executive of Anglo Irish Bank David Drumm resigns
- Chief Executive of Europe's biggest bank HSBC calls for central banks to raise interest rates to fight inflation; Says investment banking model is flawed
- Chief Executive of the Irish Financial Regulator Patrick Neary resigns in response to report on Anglo Irish Bank directors' loans
- Child Drownings Rise, Spark Safety Concerns
- China and India's service sectors continued to grow strongly in January
- China and the new challenges for inward FDI investment - - Prof. Seamus Grimes, Shanghai
- China celebrates 60 years of communism/ capitalism; Ready to reclaim pre-1890 status as world's biggest economy?
- China celebrates remarkable transition at XXIX Olympiad; Economy forecast to be world's largest from 2015 - regaining position it lost in 1890
- China confirms "firm opposition" to Japan's bid to extend its continental shelf; India to expand navy to support seabed mineral exploration
- China Curbs Loan Commissions
- China expects economy to grow 8% this year; "crucial but complicated" year for economic recovery forecast
- China has pegged currency to US dollar since July 2008 to help exporters; Emerging markets expected to keep currencies undervalued as crisis risks recede
- China hints at renminbi/yuan appreciation; Says think again - - it may not be China's century
- China hints it may end renminbi peg to the US dollar
- China increases bank reserve requirements as consumer price inflation remains close to 12-year high
- China keeps 8% growth target in 2009; No additional spending on stimulus announced
- China Land Price Growth Slows
- China Land Prices Fan Bubble Fears
- China may become Germany's top export customer by 2016; Global rebalancing favours US net exports - - US becomes cheap production location
- China may overtake the United States to become leading producer of manufactured goods in next five to seven years says OECD
- China moves up Global Innovation Index; Japan, Switzerland, Finland and US in lead; Ireland retains 19th ranking
- China moves up the global innovation rankings but innovation techniques still lag global best practice
- China moves up the global innovation rankings but innovation techniques still lag global best practice
- China Offers Hoteliers a Reprieve
- China plans to use its $2 trillion in foreign exchange reserves to accelerate Chinese business expansion overseas
- China Prepares to Salvage CCTV Tower
- China receives assurance from Obama administration on cutting US budget deficit
- China reports decline in exports/imports slowed sharply in September
- China reports exports fell for ninth straight month in July; New loans tumbled; Industrial output rose
- China reports fall in December exports; Trade surplus hit a record in 2008 as imports plunged
- China says about 20 million migrant workers have returned home after losing their jobs
- China says currency exchange rate close to "reasonable" level
- China to Alter Insurers' Rules
- China Urges Real-Estate Developers to Cut Prices
- China Vanke Posts Weak Sales
- China's 2009 growth revised up to annual rate of 8.2%
- China's and India's manufacturing sectors contracted in November
- China's consumer price index fell in May to 7.7%
- China's consumer price index rose at 2.7% annual rate in February; Production also rises
- China's economic growth has moderated to a more sustainable pace says World Bank
- China's economic growth plunges to annual 6.8% rate in fourth quarter of 2008
- China's economic recovery surged ahead in November with industrial production rising by 19.1%
- China's economy grew at annual 8.9% rate in the third quarter of 2009
- China's economy grew at the slowest pace since 2005 in the second quarter
- China's export volume decreased 17.5% year-on-year in January; Imports plunged 43% - Chinese Lunar New Year holidays had impact but trend remains grim
- China's exports jumped by 46% in February compared with a year ago; Imports climbed 44.7%
- China's exports plunge 25.7% in year to February; Stimulus plan boosts investment 26.5% in first 2 months compared with same period in 2008
- China's exports rose 17.7% n December; 2009 trade surplus fell 34% to $196bn; Maximum loan-to-value on investment residential property set at 60%
- China's GDP grew 11.9% in the first quarter of 2010 from a year earlier
- China's growing ties with emerging markets: What it means for geopolitics
- China's Home-Team Edge on Property
- China's industrial output grew at weakest pace in more than six years in August; Revised data shows Japan's economy contracted at a sharper rate in Q2 2008
- China's leadership key in global economic recovery and reform IMF says
- China's manufacturing expanded in April but slowest pace for six months; Indian manufacturing continued to grow
- China's manufacturing grew at at robust pace in October; India's growth was more moderate
- China's manufacturing output fell in June; India's manufacturing sector expanded
- China's manufacturing PMI hit a survey high in January; India's manufacturing sector expanded at fastest pace for nearly one-and-a-half years
- China's manufacturing sector continued to deteriorate in March; PMI data shows deterioration slowed in India
- China's power generation expanded 4.8% in July from a year earlier; Electricity consumption and Chinese GDP tenuously linked
- China's Premier Wen says more stimulus measures will be launched if required
- China's quarterly growth rate lowest in 10 years; Exports down 19% - - imports dip 31%
- China's retail sales rose in April at the fastest rate since at least 1999; Trade surplus fell slightly
- China's Retail Sector Draws More Interest
- China's service activity remained broadly unchanged in February; India's service PMI shows sharp growth in sector
- China's services sector activity rose to a seven-month high in March; India services fell from February’s seventeen-month peak
- China's services sector slowed in June; India's service sector is driving ahead at full speed
- China's stimulus package powers surges in industrial production, retail sales and bank lending
- China's trade surplus fell 9.6% to US$123.72 billion in the first seven months of 2008; Producer Price Index rose 10% - a 12-year high
- China's trade surplus was US$20.2 billion in May; Export growth accelerated to annual 28.1% rate
- China's under-consumption over-stated
- China-US: Protectionism on the rise - how likely is a trade war?
- China’s economic recovery gathered pace in October
- China’s economy grew at 10.7% annual rate in fourth quarter of 2009 - - up 8.7% in year; Inflation rises
- China’s economy grew at rapid pace in second quarter 2009; Stock market capitalisation of Chinese companies now second to US
- China’s economy will surpass the US by 2035 and be twice as large as the US by midcentury
- China’s recovery accelerated in August; Japan revises down second-quarter growth
- Chinese and Indian manufacturing PMI continued to grow at robust rates in February
- Chinese and Indian manufacturing PMI data showed a continued improvement in operating conditions in June
- Chinese and Indian manufacturing PMI in January continued to signal a weakening business environment
- Chinese companies take more cautious approach to foreign acquisitions
- Chinese Developers Race to Launch IPOs
- Chinese exports fell at an accelerated pace in May; Fixed asset investment surged; Japan revises Q1 2009 GDP drop to annual 14.2% rate
- Chinese exports jumped 48.5% in May increasing pressure to allow its currency to appreciate
- Chinese firm Citic Pacific hit by losses of US$1.89 billion on risky bets on US dollar
- Chinese inflation rises above 3% official target; Other indicators suggest slight slowing in China's economy
- Chinese manufacturing growth was maintained in September
- Chinese manufacturing output fell sharply in October; Japan's PMI fell to 7-year low and India's PMI also declined
- Chinese Manufacturing PMI at forty-eight month high in April; Inflationary pressures remain elevated; Robust growth maintained in the Indian manufacturing sector
- Chinese manufacturing PMI data in August show acceleration in sector; Domestic demand in India continued to power new order growth
- Chinese New Year: Year of the Tiger begins on Sunday
- Chinese PMI data signalled manufacturing exports in November rose at fastest rate since 2005; Indian manufacturing economy expanded solidly in month
- Chinese Premier seeks to ease tensions with the United States; Expects China to report trade deficit in March
- Chrysler HQ Big Factor in Sale
- Chrysler Plans to Lease Factory
- CIBC named as Canadian bank interested in AIB investment; RBC Canada says Irish banks in “vegetative state” and facing “debt wall of worry”.
- CIC May Invest in U.S. Real Estate
- Cincinnati Group Sues Over Homes
- Citi - - the US bank rescued by $45 billion in US taxpayer funds - - posts surprise profit of $1.6 billion
- Citi accused of "fraudulent misrepresentations" by Abu Dhabi fund; US Treasury suspends share sales; Controversy rages on $38 billion tax break
- Citi Cancels Renovation
- Citi energy trader pressing for his 2009 pay deal which could exceed $100 million
- Citi Gets Tough With General Growth
- Citi may surrender 40% of equity to US government in return for more capital
- Citi Scales Back Mortgage Business
- Citibank Europe's head says Dublin's International Financial Services Centre faces big potential job losses
- Citigroup Aims to Sell Japan Ski Resort
- Citigroup and Merrill Lynch agree to buy back $17 billion in auction-rate securities from US retail investors; Citi fined $100 million for "deceptive behavior"
- Citigroup downgrades Bank of Ireland and Anglo Irish Bank to “sell”; More than 60% of the shares of Irish banks are held by overseas investors; Oil price surges to $134 in New York - Updated
- Citigroup Loses Ruling on Construction Loan, for Now
- Citigroup reports fourth quarter loss on costs to exit the government’s bailout program
- Citigroup to axe 53,000 additional jobs - 75,000 jobs to go from December 2007 peak
- Citigroup Veteran Takes Apollo Job
- City Center Faces Dispute
- City's Market, at Least, Defies Curse
- Climate change study proposes cost-efficient alternatives to expensive target of preventing global temperature increase of 2 degrees Celsius+
- Climate change talks begin in Copenhagen
- Close to 45% of European unemployment spells last more than a year compared with only about 10% in the US
- CMBS Market Begins to Show Fissures
- CMBS Market Rises From Ashes
- CNL to Buy Ski Resorts
- CNN Anchor Offers Manhattan Loft
- Coca-Cola Company to submit planning application for $300 million facility at Wexford, Ireland
- Codes Change Boosts Housing Starts
- Cognotec - - the once Irish tech high-flier hope - - sold off for $4.7 million
- Coillte reports 79% rise in 2007 profit; Plans to expand into wind farms
- Coles's Death Ruled a Suicide
- Colleges Hire Specialized Developers
- Colony Weighs Las Vegas Investment
- Colony, Cogsville Team Up in FDIC Asset Sale
- Color, Style & Taste
- Columbia Feeds Clearview IPO
- Comfort at a price, Las Vegas Real Estate Listing
- Comment - Lisbon Treaty Aftermath: The case of European politicians confusing concerns of "people" with the anti-science opponents of Genetically Modified (GM) food
- Comment: Is Ireland an Organised Hypocrisy?
- Commerce via IPO
- Commercial Court orders full trial of 3 Limerick solicitors on personal guarantee claims of over €63m from Anglo Irish Bank
- Commercial Market Gains Footing
- Commercial Prices Now 43.7% Off Peak
- Commercial Property Faces Crisis
- Commercial Property Loses Shelter
- Commercial Property Remains Under Distress
- Commercial Real Estate Portends Crisis
- Commercial REIT Stocks Stage Retreat
- Commercial REITs: Beaten Down, Bid Up
- Commercial Sales Jump
- Commercial Sector in California to Worsen
- Commercial Shocks Trigger REIT Selloff
- Commercial-Mortgage REITs Rally but Concerns Persist
- Commercial-Property Pressures Grow
- Commission on Growth & Development Report: 13 countries had sustained high growth - defined as 7% per year or more for 25 years or longer; Highlights four sets of countries where growth has stalled
- Commission on Taxation Report Ireland 2009: Proposed property tax, a carbon tax, and domestic water charges as part of overhaul of Irish tax system
- Companies are making painful choices in order to grow during the recession says new report
- Companies in Europe Batten Down Hatches
- Companies see big benefits in collaborating with their critics says new research
- Companies Take Hits on Relocation Costs
- Company Appraisal: Real Estate Developers
- Company liquidations in Ireland more than doubled in 2008
- Company Valuation: Property-Owning Companies
- Competition Authority finds increasingly price-conscious Irish consumers; State must lead in reducing the cost of doing business; Tesco raises prices
- Competition Authority to launch investigation of Kerry Group’s proposed acquisition of Breeo Foods and Breeo Brands
- Competitiveness and public-sector finances: Three factors for boosting stability in the Eurozone
- Competitiveness of Eurozone economies: Long tradition of tensions
- Complex Mortgages May Hit FirstFed
- Composite Leading Indicators continue to show signs of improvement in most OECD economies
- ComReg directs Eircom to reduce the price of LLU Line Share by 65%
- ComReg Quarterly Report shows Irish Broadband take-up continues to grow strongly
- ComReg says 54% of Irish households have broadband
- Conditions at Irish construction firms worsened again in February; Pace of contraction was the weakest in twenty-seven months
- Condo Buyers in Florida Seek to Exit Deals
- Condo King Corus Weighs Options
- Confidence among UK business professionals indicates UK recession is at an end
- Confidence, Home Prices Decline
- Congress agrees $789 billion US stimulus plan; Obama hails "endeavor of enormous scope and scale"
- Congress Faults Bush on Housing Bill
- Congress Hammers Out Breaks for Homeowners
- Connecticut Files Suit Against Countrywide
- Connecticut, Starwood Hit Bump
- Connemara Mining announces "a second major discovery" of high grade zinc close to Limerick City
- Conservative Ireland rules despite the economic crash and its terrible human toll
- Consolidated Resorts Seeks Bankruptcy
- Construction and the Irish Economy: Are we ready for the post-"Golden Age" period?
- Construction Crisis May Be Building
- Construction demand in Germany will grow on average by only 0.5% per annum in real terms up to 2018
- Construction Industry Counts on Obama
- Construction Industry May Rebound in 2010
- Construction Loans Sour Small Banks
- Construction Sees Drop in Spending
- Construction Spending Exceeds Expectations
- Consulting Group Sues Vegas Resort
- Consumer Confidence Plummets
- Consumers Are Downbeat on Economy
- Contraction in Irish construction activity remained close to PMI survey record in November: Sharp input cost deflation posted
- Contraction of Japanese manufacturing sector slowed abruptly in April; Bank of Japan says economy will grow 1.2% in 2010 following 3.1% contraction this year
- Contraction of Northern Ireland private sector in August slowest since January 2008
- Contraction of Northern Ireland private sector slowest for twelve months in May
- Control of Stuyvesant Town Takes Center Stage
- Convergent Technologies Conference: IBEC says Ireland well placed to capitalize on our "unique" concentration of world’s most innovative companies
- Cooking Like the Stars?
- Cordish Nears Deal To Buy Tropicana
- Cork's Beamish and Crawford brewery to close with 120 job losses; Brewing on current site dates from 1650
- Corporate Expectations Barometer: Business expectations continue to rise Economist Intelligence Unit survey shows
- Corporate Style in Office Interiors
- Corporate tax competition has negative effect on income tax revenue according to research report
- Corus Auction Augurs Property 'Mark'
- Corus Bids Enter the Final Stretch
- Corus Has Buyers for Its Condos: Vultures
- Corus's Condo Crater
- Cost of commonly used services on average 30% higher in Dublin than in Belfast
- Cost of mortgage for Irish first-time buyers will be down 50% since 2006 by December this year
- Cost of regulation for world's top 100 financial institutions is €36 billion; Uneven Irish regulatory burden between large and smaller institutions
- Coughlan announces "project" to devise SME friendly Irish public procurement policy; Glacial change welcome but endemic cronyism likely to persist
- Coughlan announces 20 new "highly skilled" jobs over 5 years at US space components firm AMPAC in Dublin
- Coughlan announces expansion plan by Cerner Corporation to lead to 40 new "highly skilled jobs"; Workday Irish job loss rate in April was 750
- Coughlan announces R&D "Centre-of-Excellence" and creation of 10 "high-value" research positions in Dublin
- Coughlan announces revised qualifying conditions for new Irish work permits; Minimum pay for eligibility is set at €30,000 per annum
- Coughlan announces €3m in "new" export deals from Silicon Valley that are not new
- Coughlan appoints Enterprise Feedback Group on plan for Ireland to become a world-class knowledge economy by 2013
- Coughlan claims €40 million in new export sales have been "signed" during UAE trade mission
- Coughlan in United States in search of investment and jobs from ICT and financial services sectors for Ireland
- Coughlan launches "Best Connected - - New Software Economy" plan as adjunct to "Smart Economy" aspiration
- Coughlan launches industry innovation group; 9% of Science Foundation Ireland supported 2007 PhD graduates went to work in Irish-based businesses
- Coughlan launches new Irish public sector procurement handbook branded as "smart"
- Coughlan launches nine "transformational" Competence Centres for research and public investment of €56 million
- Coughlan launches public consultation process on the introduction of a Code of Practice for Grocery Goods Undertakings
- Coughlan leads Irish trade mission to US and Canada
- Coughlan meets National Consumer Agency following request from Cowen
- Coughlan signals rejection of Bord Snip/McCarthy report proposals; Irish political tradition - Ministers commission reports and then bin them
- Coughlan visits US to plead for US investment and jobs in advance of expected Obama Presidency
- Could the Irish public sector benchmarking fiasco provide a case for the DPP?
- Countrywide's Pressures Mount
- County Clare farmers' co-operative announces €200m wind project; SEI says Irish economy recorded energy savings of €750m in 2007
- Court Weighing Eminent Domain
- Cowen announces advisory panel on €500m Innovation Fund - Ireland; Half of membership on the public payroll
- Cowen announces appointment of 28-strong insider-dominated Irish innovation taskforce - - to rubber-stamp Government policy?
- Cowen announces public sector pensions levy; Total spending cuts of €2 billion
- Cowen announces what he terms 7-year €40bn 'stimulus for growth and job creation'
- Cowen concedes "mistakes" in selective defence of pre-crisis role; Auditors, regulators/ government share responsibility for Irish banking crash
- Cowen confirms commitment to €4 billion fiscal adjustment in December Budget
- Cowen heads for China; Irish-owned firms' share of Ireland's exports to China in 2007 was as low as 6.7%
- Cowen heads Irish trade mission in Japan
- Cowen hoists white flag on Irish public sector pension reform; Pensions bill jumped 56.5% in the period 2004-2009 to €2.0bn
- Cowen makes another “rallying cry”; Court appointed examiner seeks €425-an-hour; 18 State agencies fund 4,000 non-staff flights in 2 years
- Cowen provides €359m to create 2,000 public sector research jobs
- Cowen says tax revenues may fall to €32 billion in 2009 compared with €47.8 billion in 2007 - - expected deficit rises to €26 billion
- Cowen says agri-food sector had a major role to play in Ireland’s economic recovery
- Cowen says dole claimants will rise to 500,000 by Christmas; Irish unemployment to remain elevated for extended period
- Cowen says he would like to see pay for top Irish bankers cut by at least 25%
- Cowen says the Government is considering all options on bank rescue plan; PWC report says banks adequately capitalised
- Cowen signalls cuts in public pay and pensions being considered; IBEC calls for substantive Irish jobs stimulus package
- Cowen to launch €500 million “Innovation Fund Ireland” at the New York Stock Exchange
- Cowen warns of IMF rescue for Irish economy: Announces in Japan contracts and agreements for "new" export sales valued at €46m
- Cowen's Innovation Fund Ireland, jobs, Irish start-ups and failed entrepreneurs
- Cowen's manna-like US export bonanza; Obama nominates Rooney as US ambassador to Ireland
- Crane Collapses in New York
- Credit and debt are essentials of the modern economy
- Credit and debt are essentials of the modern economy
- Credit Crisis - Reform Proposals: European leaders call for a “Bretton Woods II” summit
- Credit crisis causes reappraisal of firm-wide risk management
- Credit Crisis may be abating but house property downturn in US and UK may last more than six years
- Credit crisis triggers US recession and one of America’s biggest banks may collapse former IMF chief economist says; Financial crisis is at the halfway point
- Credit crunch is not dampening corporate ambitions for innovation says latest Economist Intelligence Unit report
- Credit Default Swaps: Heading towards a more stable system
- Credit Frozen: What To Do?
- Credit Line Is Key for Gramercy
- Credit Losses Mount at Fannie
- Credit Suisse Buys Boston Property
- Credit Suisse reports first quarter loss; Barclays say that Q1 profits in Global Retail and Commercial Banking were ahead of last year’s: Profit in other key units down
- Creditors Meetings on rise as bad debts soar; The final nail in the coffin?
- CRH announces CEO Liam O’Mahony is to continue as a non-executive director
- CRH appoints Myles Lee as Group Chief Executive Designate
- CRH expects 2008 profit to exceed €1.6 billion; Outlook to improve in second half of 2009
- CRH expects to report a full year percentage decline in profit before tax in the low to mid-teens
- CRH reports 10% fall in pre-tax profits in the first half of 2008
- CRH reports 14% like-for-like sales fall in first four months of 2010
- CRH reports 2008 profit before tax of €1.63 billion - - a fall of 14%
- CRH reports 53% dip in 2009 profit before tax and impairment charges to €773m
- CRH reports profit before tax in H1 2009 fell 82% to €108 million
- CRH reports sales drop of 18% in 2009; Profit before tax dipped 55% to €0.75 billion
- CRH says full year 2008 reported profit before tax may show a high single digit percentage decline compared with the record 2007 outturn
- CRH says profit plunged in first half of 2009; Outlook - - trading conditions to remain extremely challenging but profit performance will improve
- CRH says sales revenue fell 10% and operating profit dipped 50% in H1 2010 compared with same period in 2009
- CRH says trading in the first four months of 2009 "extremely challenging"; Underperformance anticipated in the first half is expected to moderate
- CRH warns that the weaker US Dollar over recent months together with slower trends in a number of markets makes 2008 a challenging year
- Crisis Hits Russian Real Estate
- Crisis on Wall Street: Lehman Brothers to file for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy; Bank of America buys Merrill Lynch; Insurance giant AIG agrees restructuring following 31% share plunge on Friday
- Crony Ireland and misperceptions on pay and pensions between Irish public and private sector workers
- Crude oil price falls below $124 a barrel after the IEA cuts 2008 demand forecast; Price surged almost 12% since May 1st
- Crude oil price rises to new record of $139.89 in New York
- Crying Over the House Hunt
- CSO survey says €435m was spent on Irish cross-border shopping trips in the year to July 2009; 44% of households bought alcohol
- Curb Appeal: U.K. Real-Estate Stocks?
- Current economic crisis is likely to result in profound changes in nearly every major industry worldwide says Economist Intelligence Unit
- Cut in mortgage interest relief from Friday; Estimated 230,000 Irish home owners face higher mortgage bills - - at least temporarily
- Cuts in bankers' pay to extend to all Irish-owned guaranteed financial institutions; Politicians express outrage but mum on own featherbedding
- Cycle of Pain Ensnares Market
- D.R. Horton Pares Loss
- DAA - Dublin Airport Authority announces plans for "World Class" €4 billion development - Dublin Airport City
- Dáil approves emergency Irish bank guarantee legislation by 124 – 18; US Senate approves $700 billion Wall Street rescue plan by 74 – 25
- Dallas Condo Project: Exception to the Slump
- Dallas Retail Sector Comes Under Pressure
- Dan Fogelberg Ranch in Contract
- Dangers of premature "mission accomplished" and the Irish fields of dreams
- Dark Days for Mall Dynasty Built on Debt
- Datalex reports pre-tax loss of $800,000 in H1 2008
- Datalex says $125 a barrel oil may help it generate business from US airlines
- David McWilliams - - a short-termist like his Celtic Tiger villains?
- Davos 2010: Trichet and King support Obama's bank reform plan
- Davos World Economic Forum 2009: Trichet warns financial markets to stop putting pressure on banks to hold more capital; Risk of making global recession worse
- Davos World Economic Forum 2009: Wen and Putin blame US for global crisis; Russian PM warns against State "interference" in the private sector
- Davy - Ireland's biggest stockbroking firm - to cut up 10%-15% of staff
- Davy says bad debt losses for the six Irish banks over 2008-2010 will amount to €33bn; Charges at Anglo will be 15% of loans; 22% at Irish Nationwide
- Davy says case for public intervention in Irish mortgage market is persuasive; At least 40,000 new completed unsold units
- Davy says Ireland was never a wealthy country; High income in 2000-2008 largely wasted
- Davy says Irish economy is in a painful recession; Calls for a pay freeze in return for tax rebates
- Davy says Irish Tourism troubles are threat for economy and banks; Hotel bedroom numbers jumped from 26,000 in 1996 to 64,500 in 2008 - a surge of 150% - while tourist numbers rose just over 70%
- Davy says no problem for Ireland to breach Euro deficit limit temporarily; Limit of 3% of GDP will be approached in 2008 and breached in 2009
- Davy to provide €35 million to Irish credit unions to cover losses on investment product; Hopes to recover cost when financial markets rebound
- Davy welcomes High Court decision to quash the decision of the Financial Services Ombudsman in Enfield Credit Union case
- Day 52: BP is US Public Enemy No. 1; Wall Street should be the world's
- Day of turmoil capped by rejection of $700 billion rescue plan for Wall Street; US stocks in biggest plunge since 1987; Irish stocks in biggest tumble since 1983
- DBSI Failure Shows Spread of Turmoil
- DCC acquires wine merchant FindlaterGrants from C&C Group for €9.6 million
- DCC founder Jim Flavin resigns after High Court application by the Irish Director of Corporate Enforcement
- DCC hails "excellent" January as harsh weather conditions boosted business
- DCC pre-tax profits rise 15.7% boosted by largest division DCC Energy
- DCC reports "excellent" fiscal first quarter boosted by cold weather in April; Reported 2008 earnings expected to be in line with 2007 on continuation of current Euro/sterling exchange rate
- DCC reports 12% increase in pre-tax profits to €181.7m for the year to the end of March; Board to outline position on insider trading legal case with Fyffes
- DCC reports 27% increase in pre-tax profits -- on a constant currency basis - - for the year ending March 2010
- DCC reports operating profit rose 7.9% to €180.4 million in year ended March 31, 2009; Acquires Shell Denmark business for €14 million
- DCC reports operating profits for six months to end September up slightly to €48.8m
- DCC says trading profit for its first quarter to end of June was ahead of expectations
- DCC to acquire Chevron's oil distribution business in UK for €27.52 million
- DCC's board says Flavin's trading of Fyffes shares was an unwitting breach of civil law that is now repealed
- Deal Gives Firm Tallest Building in China
- Deal Is Reached For Ground Zero
- Dealing With a Vacant Home
- Dearth of Properties Spurs Fund Givebacks
- Deaths at Site Spur Safety Debate
- Debt Clouds Future of Fontainebleau
- Debt Costs Stoke Fears for Freddie
- Decline in Irish services PMI accelerated in April as economic downturn showed little sign of abating
- Deep Crisis, Strong US Dollar: Is this Contradictory?
- Defaults Rising for 'Pick-a-Pay' Option
- Defined Benefit Pension Scheme can be biggest risk to company – Mercer Ireland; Employer contribution rates have doubled over the last 8 years
- Defined benefit pension schemes will disappear from the UK this decade
- Deflation slows as Eurozone annual inflation rises to -0.2% in August 2009
- Dell delivers Exocet to Limerick with closure of iconic plant of the Celtic Tiger period; 1,900 direct jobs to be lost; Contractor and supplier jobs also gone
- Dell in deep discounting as US PC market falters; Western European market rose 24.3% in Q3 with Acer in the lead
- Dell reports 17% drop in quarterly profit
- Dell reports 48% fall in quarterly net income; Further job cutting is planned
- Dell reports 63% drop in quarterly profit and a 23% dip in revenue
- Dell reports falls in income and revenue in fiscal third quarter
- Dell reports strong fiscal-first-quarter results; Revenue from overseas markets overtook the US for the first time
- Dell tells ministers cost cutting plan to go-ahead; Up to 2,000 jobs at risk at Limerick plant
- Dell tells ministers cost cutting plan to go-ahead; Up to 2,000 jobs at risk at Limerick plant
- Dell to cut at least 400 temporary workers at its Limerick plant; Plans to increase parts purchases from China
- Dell warns of a ``further softening'' in demand this quarter
- Deloitte Annual Review of Football Finance 2008: Revenue of Top 20 clubs at £1.9 billion forecast for 2007/08 season; Little evidence of improved profits
- Delta Index becomes first Irish Financial Spread Betting provider to be regulated by the Irish Financial Regulator
- Delta Index to launch service in Germany
- Delta Index to sponsor the Irish political cabaret Leviathan
- Democrats Face Rescue Backlash
- Demographic change in industrial countries; Less impact on health spending than widely believed
- Demographic outlook for the BRICs varies greatly; India's working-age population to rise by stunning 240m in 20 years compared with 10m in China
- Dempsey says Dublin Airport Authority can operate Dublin Airport's Terminal 2 - -T2 - - if it meets agreed benchmarks
- Denis O'Brien's Digicel reports annual revenues rose 11% to $1.73 billion in the year to end of March 2009
- Denis O’Brien launches search for Irish student entrepreneurs
- Denmark remains top of the Economist Intelligence Unit's 2008 Business Environment Rankings; Ireland drops to 11th rank
- Denmark, Ireland and Finland were dearest for consumer goods such as food, clothing and electronics in EU in 2008
- Denmark, Sweden and Netherlands head the 2009 e-readiness rankings; Ireland up three rungs to 18th ranking
- Denver's Convention Housing Bubble
- Department of Finance urged Financial Regulator and Central Bank on priority of finding investors for Quinn's shares in Anglo Irish Bank
- Designer Outlets Maintain Their Fashion
- Designer Trash
- Designing for the Senior Surge
- Despite deep recession Ireland's high net worth population rose by over 10% in 2009; Globally wealth recovery almost offset 2008 losses
- Detroit Casinos Fare Well in Slump
- Deutsche Bank expects to “return to profitability” in 2009; Merkel warns bankers economic recovery will be a long road
- Deutsche Bank reports net loss of €4.8 billion in Q4 2008; Hit by bad bets on US automotive sector
- Deutsche Bank Research says among the BRIC countries, growth in China and India will continue to outpace Brazil and Russia
- Deutsche Bank Research: Irish patient has to swallow the bitter medicine of correcting past exuberance
- Deutsche Bank Research: Who is washing the dishes tonight? The gender gap in household work: causes and effects
- Deutsche Bank says Ireland has been the most uncompetitive Eurozone country in period 1999-2009 followed by Italy, Portugal and Spain
- Deutsche Bank Sues Trump
- Deutsche Bank to Sell Three Towers
- Developer Driven to Brink of Ruin
- Developer of 9/11 Site Seeks Aid
- Developer Seán Dunne says D4 Hotels and D4 Stores have not contravened any planning laws
- Developer Sean Dunne's Mountbrook Group lodges planning application for redevelopment of Ringsend & Irishtown Community Centre in return for an "implementable planning permission" for its Jurys Berkeley Court site
- Developer Sells Land Dirt Cheap
- Developers Ask U.S. for Bailout
- Developers Ask U.S. for Bailout
- Developers Back Off Harlem Plans
- Developers Cancel Las Vegas Project
- Developers Diversified Deal Is Nearer
- Developers Diversified Deal to Test Rescue Program
- Developers Dread Return of Recourse
- Developers Fight to Build at National Parks
- Developers Scale Back Luxury Projects
- Developing and emerging countries are likely to account for nearly 60% of world GDP by 2030
- Developing Asia needs more balanced growth to protect from external shocks - - Asian Development Bank
- Developing Asia's strong recovery to continue; Asian Development Bank warns of risks of forex intervention; Says several currencies undervalued
- Developing Asian economies to revert to more moderate growth; Sharp rise in inflation forecast - impact of high food and oil prices muted in most of Asia
- Diageo Ireland acquires site in Leixlip to build new Irish Guinness brewery on land originally owned by founder Arthur Guinness
- Digital Economy Rankings 2010: Nordic countries excel; Asia's digital leaders outperform Europe/ North America in new broadband quality indicators
- Digiweb acquires Smart Telecom which is due to exit from court examinership
- Direct cost of global financial crisis of 2007-09 may be lowest on record; Indirect costs have been breathtaking so far
- Discord Delays Hamburg Concert Hall
- Dismal Outlook for Mall Owners
- Dismal Outlook for Mall Owners
- Disney Rumors Spur Shanghai Money Grab
- Ditching Oil, Converting to Gas
- Dodd Tied to Countrywide Loans
- Dodgy Irish "economists" Bruce Arnold and Fintan O'Toole and economic facts
- Doha Round Trade Talks: Progress stalls as China and India seek concessions on protecting farmers from rising imports
- Doha Trade Round Talks: Irish Government warned not to allow rich farmers to scuttle progress; Agricultural produce accounts for 3% of Irish exports; Industrial and services exports for 97%
- Doha Trade Round Talks: Road to successful agreement littered with "potholes"; US Chamber of Commerce says deal has potential to deliver benefits to Ireland’s industrial and services sectors
- Doha Trade Round: Irish Farmers and Sacred Cows
- Doha world trade talks collapse; Demands from India and China for protections for their large farming bases were opposed by other Developing Countries, the EU and US
- Doing Business 2010: World Bank says record 131 economies reformed business regulation in 2008/09; Rwanda best reformer; Ireland retains 7th ranking
- Dollar demand for gold reached quarterly record of US$32bn in Q3 2008; Surge in demand from Germany and Switzerland
- Don't Do Windows? You May Be in Luck
- Double-digit growth in seaborne trade of dry bulk commodities to halt in 2009; World commodity dollar prices projected to fall by 34% in 2009
- Double-dip recession tops executives' concerns for global economic outlook
- Doubts Cast on Value of Vegas's Fontainebleau
- Doubts Linger for Europe's Property Stocks
- Dow closes at lowest since 1997; Banking giant JP Morgan Chase cuts dividend - - says Q1 2009 to-date "solidly profitable"
- Dow closes in on 10,000 level again; First time over threshold was in March 1999
- Dow has worst year since 1931; Ireland's ISEQ has worst performance since 1793
- Dow Jones hits 13-month high; Gold futures finished about $1,100 for first time; USD/EUR moves above $1.50
- Dow Jones Industrial Average closes below 10,000 level; First crossed threshold in March 1999
- Dow Jones rises above the 10,000 mark for the 26th time since 1999; 53% gain in just seven months
- Downturn in Eurozone manufacturing deepened as production and new orders posted sharpest losses since late-2001
- Downturn in the Irish service sector intensified in October
- Downturn of global manufacturing sector continued in August
- Downward trend of travel to and from Ireland continued in July 2009
- Dr Peter Morici: Bush Auto Plan will test Obama's Union Loyalties; Loans of well over $100 billion will be needed
- Dr Peter Morici: Bush Auto Plan will test Obama's Union Loyalties; Loans of well over $100 billion will be needed
- Dr Peter Morici: Friday's US Jobs Report - US equivalent of October Irish job losses at 1.2 million
- Dr Peter Morici: Friday’s US jobs report; Unemployment headed for 9%
- Dr Peter Morici: US records January trade deficit of $36.0 billion
- Dr Peter Morici: US reports November trade deficit was $40.4 billion - down from $56.7 billion in October
- Dr Peter Morici: US Senate Testimony on US auto industry bailout
- Dr Peter Morici: US Trade Deficit at $56.7 billion in June; Job losses mount
- Dr Peter Morici: US Trade Deficit rises in March; Drags on recovery
- Dr. Doom warns of risk of double-dip W-shaped recession; Trichet expects more "difficult times"; Globalised finance and its collapse
- Dr. Peter Morici on the other $700 billion - America needs to stop consuming more than it produces
- Dr. Peter Morici says extend the Bush tax cuts for all taxpayers
- Dr. Peter Morici: A jobless US recovery and strong stock market
- Dr. Peter Morici: America needs to get back to its roots
- Dr. Peter Morici: American stimulus spending and lost hope
- Dr. Peter Morici: America’s leadership deficit
- Dr. Peter Morici: An “X” shaped recovery and old time religion
- Dr. Peter Morici: Analysis - US economy loses 240,000 jobs in October; defines challenges for a new President
- Dr. Peter Morici: Analysis - US Economy loses 84,000 jobs in August
- Dr. Peter Morici: Analysis of US Current Account Deficit rise in First Quarter 2008
- Dr. Peter Morici: Bank of England announces New Special Liquidity Scheme; Like Federal Reserve moves, Too little to resolve Credit Crisis
- Dr. Peter Morici: Behind the dollar's dog days
- Dr. Peter Morici: Bernanke, Congress and President drive Stock Market rout
- Dr. Peter Morici: Breakthrough US jobs report expected on Friday
- Dr. Peter Morici: Can the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac bailout work?
- Dr. Peter Morici: Chasing dreams; EU €750bn bailout fund for Greece, others is not enough
- Dr. Peter Morici: China and the Great Recession - - Recalibrating US-China
- Dr. Peter Morici: China’s yuan, not the dollar, is too cheap
- Dr. Peter Morici: Chrysler, Stress Tests, Swine Flu, and Forecasts for the Week Ahead; A first glimpse of the beginning of the end of the recession?
- Dr. Peter Morici: Crisis grips US Job Market: Economy sheds 62,000 jobs in June
- Dr. Peter Morici: Deception, Delusion and Abuse
- Dr. Peter Morici: Democrats are heading for a train wreck
- Dr. Peter Morici: Derivatives!
- Dr. Peter Morici: Economic talks with China not likely to accomplish much
- Dr. Peter Morici: Fixing American health care
- Dr. Peter Morici: Fixing China trade key to a sustainable recovery
- Dr. Peter Morici: Fixing the Banks
- Dr. Peter Morici: Forecasters expect US economy shed 110,000 jobs in June and unemployment rose to 9.8%
- Dr. Peter Morici: Friday's Jobs Report: US unemployment headed for 9%
- Dr. Peter Morici: Friday’s GDP report - - an anti-middle class recovery
- Dr. Peter Morici: Friday’s Job’s Report: US Unemployment to stay above 10% in 2010
- Dr. Peter Morici: Friday’s US employment report and economic recovery
- Dr. Peter Morici: Friday’s US Employment Report and the Recovery
- Dr. Peter Morici: Friday’s US Home Sales report and the Sorry State of Banking
- Dr. Peter Morici: Friday’s US jobs report
- Dr. Peter Morici: Friday’s US jobs report
- Dr. Peter Morici: Friday’s US Jobs Report: Look to Retail Employment for signs of turnaround; Unemployment headed above 9%
- Dr. Peter Morici: Friday’s US Jobs Report: Unemployment and stock prices heading up
- Dr. Peter Morici: Friday’s US Jobs Report; Unemployment headed for 8%
- Dr. Peter Morici: Friday’s US jobs' report: Unemployment bumps 10%?
- Dr. Peter Morici: GM is having trouble lining up the financing to acquire Chrysler
- Dr. Peter Morici: Google and the China challenge
- Dr. Peter Morici: Health Care Reform and my expensive education in economics
- Dr. Peter Morici: How Obama could win big on health care
- Dr. Peter Morici: Huge US Productivity leap signals no wage-price spiral; Weekly jobless claims rise
- Dr. Peter Morici: Is the Fed Still a Central Bank?
- Dr. Peter Morici: Lessons from Greece for the United States
- Dr. Peter Morici: Mr. President; It’s the trade deficit stupid!
- Dr. Peter Morici: Obama and Pelosi’s reckoning
- Dr. Peter Morici: Obama confronting the consequences of bureaucracy and corruption
- Dr. Peter Morici: Obama courting disaster
- Dr. Peter Morici: Obama’s Budget Task Force is clever politics but poor leadership
- Dr. Peter Morici: Obama’s polemics versus the economic facts
- Dr. Peter Morici: Obama’s troubles with health care
- Dr. Peter Morici: Paulson’s Folly: Throwing good money after bad at AIG
- Dr. Peter Morici: Playing nice with Russia has failed
- Dr. Peter Morici: President Obama's Bank Tax: Just another bit of demagoguery
- Dr. Peter Morici: President Obama’s Donut Economics
- Dr. Peter Morici: President Obama’s record - - blame game is Democrats’ misfortune
- Dr. Peter Morici: President-elect Obama cannot indulge in a measured transition
- Dr. Peter Morici: Quarterly Forecasts; US slow growth or double dip?
- Dr. Peter Morici: Recession pushed down US trade deficit, rebound coming
- Dr. Peter Morici: Reforming Bank Regulation; A systemic regulator and resolution authority won’t avert or resolve future crises
- Dr. Peter Morici: Regulate bank pay
- Dr. Peter Morici: Sophistry Reigns Supreme: The Slippery Slope of Stimulus
- Dr. Peter Morici: Stewart vs. Cramer
- Dr. Peter Morici: Strategies to end the Financial Crisis
- Dr. Peter Morici: Strong US jobs report expected
- Dr. Peter Morici: Taxing grandma to pay Goldman Sachs
- Dr. Peter Morici: Testimony to US Congress on Causes of and Cures for the Economic Crisis
- Dr. Peter Morici: The ballooning US trade deficit is a principal cause of the Great Recession
- Dr. Peter Morici: The Dow Tanks as the Bank Bailout fails to restore confidence
- Dr. Peter Morici: The falling dollar and China’s cries for a global currency
- Dr. Peter Morici: The Fed, the yuan and the failure of diplomacy
- Dr. Peter Morici: The Great Recession; Fed study puts ideal US interest rate at -5%
- Dr. Peter Morici: The not so great US economic recovery
- Dr. Peter Morici: The Washington Follies - - stocks soar, unemployment passes 10% and the dollar slumps
- Dr. Peter Morici: Thursday’s US Productivity and Friday’s Jobs Reports
- Dr. Peter Morici: Time is running out for President Obama
- Dr. Peter Morici: US banks - - Is Nationalization Inevitable?
- Dr. Peter Morici: US Durable Goods Orders jumped 1.3% in July; GDP numbers Thursday expected to be stronger but tougher times to come
- Dr. Peter Morici: US Economy - A moderate recovery and bull market
- Dr. Peter Morici: US economy adds 290,000 jobs but unemployment jumps to 9.9%
- Dr. Peter Morici: US economy lost 159,000 jobs in September, after losing 73,000 jobs in August
- Dr. Peter Morici: US Economy; A double-dip or off the cliff?
- Dr. Peter Morici: US GDP and Jobs Data highlights of the week ahead
- Dr. Peter Morici: US GDP up 3.3% in Second Quarter
- Dr. Peter Morici: US health care and broken government
- Dr. Peter Morici: US health care and President Obama’s sinking approval ratings
- Dr. Peter Morici: US health care reform and the divine right of kings
- Dr. Peter Morici: US health care reform is a loser for President Obama
- Dr. Peter Morici: US Health Care: Creating real competition to lower costs
- Dr. Peter Morici: US housing sales and fixing the economy
- Dr. Peter Morici: US Labor Department releases key April Jobs Data Friday; The United States headed for Economic Malaise?
- Dr. Peter Morici: US loses 663,000 jobs in March; 3.3 million jobs lost in the last 5 months
- Dr. Peter Morici: US March trade deficit; China trade; Taxes and economic recovery
- Dr. Peter Morici: US November jobs report
- Dr. Peter Morici: US Personal Income up; Consumer Spending lags; All Eyes on the Federal Reserve
- Dr. Peter Morici: US Productivity advances 1.9%; Good News for Inflation, Interest Rates and Stock Prices
- Dr. Peter Morici: US Productivity Advances 2.2%: Good news for Inflation, Interest Rates and Economy
- Dr. Peter Morici: US recession ends for Summers but for who else?
- Dr. Peter Morici: US records another huge Current Account deficit
- Dr. Peter Morici: US records huge Current Account Deficit; Heightens risk of Depression
- Dr. Peter Morici: US registers $57.2 billion Trade Deficit in October; More American jobs destroyed
- Dr. Peter Morici: US Registers $677 billion Trade Deficit in 2008; Significant cause of recession
- Dr. Peter Morici: US stocks poised for big rally
- Dr. Peter Morici: US Stocks prices get recent boost and the Dow is heading for 12,000 by year-end
- Dr. Peter Morici: US Third Quarter GDP to be revised downward; Unemployment to rise and stock rally to continue
- Dr. Peter Morici: US to release February Trade Deficit data on Friday - What to Look for?
- Dr. Peter Morici: US Trade Deficit at $59.1 billion in August; Job losses mount
- Dr. Peter Morici: US trade deficit burdens economic recovery
- Dr. Peter Morici: US Trade Deficit falls to $58.2 billion in March, Lowers GDP by $250 Billion
- Dr. Peter Morici: US trade deficit in April to show little progress; Blocks recovery and destroys jobs
- Dr. Peter Morici: US trade deficit negates stimulus spending
- Dr. Peter Morici: US Trade Deficit remains stifling in May; Deepens Recession; Threatens long term growth
- Dr. Peter Morici: US Trade Deficit surges in April and Recession Risks mount; Bernanke aggravates Risks and Ignores Fundamental Problems
- Dr. Peter Morici: US Trade Deficit surges; Boosts likelihood of Recession - More losses; Job losses mount
- Dr. Peter Morici: US trade deficit threatens a double-dip recession, economic armageddon
- Dr. Peter Morici: US trade deficit threatens a second recession
- Dr. Peter Morici: US trade deficit threatens double dip and depression
- Dr. Peter Morici: US trade deficit threatens “W” shaped recovery, destroys jobs
- Dr. Peter Morici: US trade deficit, China’s currency require US action now
- Dr. Peter Morici: US trade deficit, new home tax credit and easy Fed policies threaten double dip recession
- Dr. Peter Morici: US Treasury’s flawed plan for Citigroup and other Banks
- Dr. Peter Morici: US unemployment rate rose from 5.0 to 5.5 % in May; 49,000 jobs were lost; Recession grips the Job Market
- Dr. Peter Morici: Wall Street rakes big bonuses, Obama fails to stem abuse
- Dr. Peter Morici: Washington’s neglect of main street banks threatens recovery
- Dr. Peter Morici: What to look for in Tuesday's US Trade Deficit data
- Dr. Peter Morici: What to Watch in Wednesday's US Consumer Price Data
- Dr. Peter Morici: What’s Next for the Fed: The People’s National Bank?
- Dr. Peter Morici: When will Henry Paulson learn?
- Dr. Peter Morici: Who needs the Euro anyway?
- Dr. Peter Morici: Why free trade is failing America
- Dr. Peter Morici: Why gold prices are soaring
- Dr. Peter Morici: Why Obama’s economic policies are failing
- Dr. Peter Morici: Will a US Stimulus Package work?
- Dr. Peter Morici: Will the Fed broaden its focus?
- Dr. Peter Morici: Will US Congress aggravate Global Warming?
- Dr: Peter Morici: US trade deficit expected to rise, negates effects of stimulus; Ford Public Offering a smart move
- Dr: Peter Morici: US Trade Deficit expected to rise; Overwhelms effects of stimulus
- Draft legislation for Irish "bad bank" National Asset Management Agency - - NAMA - - published
- Drinks Industry Group of Ireland says 2008 worst-performing year in 25 years
- Drinks Industry Group of Ireland says alcohol sales are down 7% in the first eight months of the year and off 14% in the month of August
- Drinks? DJs? See Realtor Inside
- Dubai Corporate Probes Grow
- Dubai Deal Called Into Question
- Dubai Developer Talks Signal Mergers
- Dubai Faces Hit as Property Boom Fades
- Dubai Holding, Emaar Cancel Property Merger
- Dubai Lenders Feel Squeeze
- Dubai Lenders Feel Squeeze
- Dubai Looks to Cool Property Market
- Dubai Moves to Shore Up Real-Estate Market
- Dubai Real Estate Feels Slump
- Dubai Scandals Cast Cloud Over Property Boom
- Dubai Tower Delayed Amid Cutbacks
- Dubai World Coughs Up Knickerbocker
- Dubai World Holds Key to Revival
- Dubai World Loses W Hotel Auction
- Dubai World May Be Forced to Sell Trophy Assets
- Dubai World Sues MGM
- Dubai: High Rise, Then Steep Fall
- Dublin airport passenger charges expected to rise 13% in 2010 with more to follow despite lowest Irish inflation since 1933
- Dublin and outside Dublin Prices: Higher in Dublin for 62% of items - Prices of goods and services 4.9% higher in capital
- Dublin City Council hikes commercial rates by 3.3%; VAT to increase next week; Four "wise men" tasked with finding public spending savings
- Dublin in Global Top 10 for prime office rents in 2009 - - more than double rents in Brussels and 33 times Berlin
- Dublin insurance broker OHC Insurances fined €10,000 by Irish Financial Regulator for overcharging customers
- Dublin office rents are the 12th highest in the world - more than double Toronto's and almost twice the level in Brussels - capital of the European Union
- Dublin Port Company boosted by profit of €109 million from sale of the former Irish Glass Bottle site
- Dublin Port Company reports fourth consecutive month of rising trade activity in March
- Dublin Port Company says volcanic ash brought bonanza for Irish ferries; Trips to Ireland by overseas residents in February 2010 were down by 24.3%
- Dublin prices for services significantly higher than beyond the capital; Q1 2009 planning permissions were down 23.7%
- Dublin ranks 25th of 215 in Mercer’s 2009 Quality of Living Global City rankings; Vienna scores highest - - Baghdad the lowest
- Dublin's Docklands Authority cuts deficit from €213m to €19m in 2009; Agency left with 34 Council/Executive Board members and 27 staff
- Dublin's Grafton Street overtakes London and Tokyo to take a top 5 position in the ranking of the world's most expensive shopping streets
- Duffy leaves Bank of Scotland with reported “golden handshake” for new banking role
- Duolog Technologies says it will grow its revenues by 50% to $15 million in 2009
- E-Commerce drops for first time in the US
- E-Speak – Connecting up Offices in the Digital Age
- Eagle Star to use parent's Zurich brand in the Irish market
- Earlier service interruption
- Earnings dividend from university education highest in US
- Earnings in Irish private sector fell by 3.1% in year to Q2 2009; Rise of 1.3% in public sector ex-pension levy; Earnings down 4.9% in small firms
- Easing in Eurozone Manufacturing PMI decline masks contrasting national trends
- East Asia’s local-currency bond markets on rise but still small compared with US and Japan
- East Asia’s myriad "noodle bowl" free trade agreements benefit the regions’ businesses
- East London Hopes For Olympic Renewal
- EBS - - the Educational Building Society - - reports loss of almost €80m in 2009
- EBS Building Society reports 2008 loss before tax of €38.2m after bad debts charge of €110m; Chairman and Finance Director resign
- ECB and Bank of England expected to keep benchmark rates on hold
- ECB and Bank of England keep interest rates unchanged; Trichet to address press conference
- ECB announces dramatic move to intervene in government bond market to complement the €750bn euro support package
- ECB announces €16.5bn purchases of bonds; Falling euro welcome news for exporters; Central banker criticises German "hysteria" about inflation
- ECB expected to keep benchmark rate on hold at 1%; Bank indirectly funding half of Eurozone country deficits in 2009
- ECB keeps benchmark rate on hold at 1%; Bank of England keeps rate at 0.5%
- ECB launches "stimulus by stealth"; Announces massive lending of €442 billion - - $621 billion - - for 12 months to Eurozone banks
- ECB lending survey shows Irish banks report tightening of credit standards and a decrease in loan demand
- ECB may cut key rate to 1%; Irish mortgage monthly savings may rise to €550 on 30-year €300K loan in 6 months
- ECB rate cut to 1.25% to cut monthly payment on €300,000 30-year loan by €39; Saving since last October
- ECB rate cut to reduce Irish monthly mortgage payment on 30-year €300,000 loan by €80 - - saving of €500 since last October
- ECB rate cut to reduce Irish mortgage repayments by up to €82 a month; Since September mortgage repayments have fallen by over 20%
- ECB rate cut triggers mortgage cuts by several Irish banks
- ECB rate cuts lead to monthly savings on €300,000 30-year mortgage of over €300 since September
- ECB rate cuts since September 2008 have potential of monthly savings of more than €500 on Irish €300,000 mortgage
- ECB Rate Outlook from Irish Bank Economists - Austin Hughes somersaults from 3 interest rate cuts in 2008 to "strong possibility of a further ECB rate rise in September or October"
- ECB Rate Outlook May 2008: Three Irish Bank Economists - From no cut this year to a revision down to 2 cuts by December
- ECB reports increase of 17% in withdrawn counterfeit euro banknotes to 413,000 in H1 2009; Trichet tells banks to maintain credit flows
- ECB says credit conditions in Eurozone have eased; Irish banks reported tightening of lending rules
- ECB to cut benchmark rate by at least 0.5% to 1.5%; Bank of England rate may fall to new 315-year low of 0.5%
- ECB warns of "hazardous contagion"; Banks face "considerable" loan losses in 2010/ 2011 with additional €195bn in writedowns
- ECB Watch: Benchmark rate expected to fall to at least 2% by mid-2009
- ECB Watch: Eurozone recession fears and the easing of inflation have put interest rate cuts on the agenda
- Echoes on 16th Floor: Venture Capital Exits
- Economic activity in OECD countries is picking up faster than expected; Irish economy appears to be close to a turning point
- Economic activity in the US manufacturing sector expanded in December for the fifth consecutive month
- Economic activity in the US manufacturing sector failed to grow in January for the 12th consecutive month
- Economic activity in the US manufacturing sector was unchanged in July
- Economic climate in Eurozone rose in January; Confidence in the world economy ebbed in February
- Economic crisis threatens "potato boom"; China is the world's biggest potato producer
- Economic downturn hits start-ups in multiple ways
- Economic Impact of Beer in Europe: Irish excise duty on beer 9 times European average but Irish are among Europe's biggest beer drinkers
- Economic insecurity in the US is at its highest in 25 years
- Economic Outlook forecasts sharp rise in unemployment by 8 million as recession takes hold across OECD
- Economic rebound in East Asia surprisingly swift thanks to China says World Bank
- Economic recovery spreading across OECD countries too timid to halt rise in unemployment
- Economic recovery takes firm hold worldwide; Confidence among manufacturers in Ireland at highest level since January 2007
- Economic Sentiment and Business Climate Indicators plunged to record lows in December in the EU and the Eurozone
- Economic Sentiment in European Union falls to lowest since 1985
- Economic Sentiment Indicator edged up in both the EU and the Eurozone in June; Eurozone Business Climate Indicator also rises
- Economic Sentiment Indicator for EU and Eurozone fell again in January; Business Climate Indicator for Eurozone lowest since 1985
- Economic Sentiment Indicator for EU and Eurozone improved further in July
- Economic Sentiment Indicator for the EU and the Eurozone fell again in February ; Business Climate Indicator for Eurozone lowest since 1985
- Economic Sentiment Indicator in Eurozone and EU fell in September; Business Climate Indicator declined sharply
- Economic Slowdown Hurts Lowe's
- Economics Nobel laureate makes case for investing in disadvantaged young children
- Economist George Lee abandons broken Irish political system; Resigns from Dáíl and Fine Gael
- Economist Intelligence Unit Cost of Living Survey 2009: Dublin is world's 13th most expensive city; New York gets 23rd ranking and London 27th
- Economist Intelligence Unit lists 29 countries that will contract in 2009
- Economist Intelligence Unit report says the past year has seen an upsurge in public and business scepticism about climate change
- Economist Intelligence Unit risk report asks: What happens if financial turmoil capsizes the global economy?
- Economists claim planned tax measures on US multinationals' overseas earnings will destroy jobs and hobble exports
- Economists say what the G20 should do on November 15th to fix the global financial system
- Economy, Credit Woes Halt Seattle Project
- Economy: International migration key to long-term economic growth because of the ageing of developed country populations says OECD
- Ed McMahon Faces Foreclosure
- Eircom reports 2% fall in quarterly earnings
- Eircom reports 8% increase in earnings for the year to the end of June: Australian BCM fund has no plans to sell stake in the Irish telco
- Eircom reports 8% increase in earnings for the year to the end of June: Australian BCM fund has no plans to sell stake in the Irish telco
- Eircom reports EBITDA earnings down 1% in year to June; Australia's Eircom Holdings reports A$1.9bn loss; Says sale talks continuing with Singapore's STT
- Eircom reports EBITDA earnings down 1% in year to June; Australia's Eircom Holdings reports A$1.9bn loss; Says sale talks continuing with Singapore's STT
- Eircom reports fall in profit in third quarter; Loss of 22,000 fixed line customers
- Eircom reports profit of €327m before adjustments for six months to end of 2009 -- down 3%
- Eircom reports revenue rise of 5% in its third quarter to the end of March; Meteor customer numbers up 17% year-on-year; Broadband customers up 37%
- Eircom says residents 5km from a telephone exchange will not get broadband; Kerry mast rule also problem
- Eircom to shed 1,200 jobs; Dublin Airport Authority seeking up to 400 voluntary job losses
- Eircom writes down value by €720 million; Pension scheme in deficit of €433 million
- eircom's €100,000 Web Innovation Fund winners announced!
- EirGrid plans to double capacity of the national electricity grid by 2025 with an investment of €4 billion
- Elan and Wyeth say Alzheimer's disease drug trial positive
- Elan cures breach with Tysabri partner Biogen
- Elan hires Citigroup to review possible sale, merger or strategic alliance
- Elan posts pre-tax loss of $129.8m for 2009 - - 56% improvement on the loss in 2008
- Elan reports 30% rise in second quarter revenue; Net loss decreased by 49% to $71.5 million
- Elan reports fall in net losses in 2008 on rise in MS drug Tysabri sales by 140%
- Elan reports first quarter loss of $85.5 million; Sales revenues of $1 billion forecast in 2008
- Elan reports operating profit of $32.7m for the first quarter of 2010
- Elan reports positive Tysabri results on slowing the progression of MS disability but mixed results on PML brain disease
- Elan reports pre-tax loss of $88.6m for the first quarter of 2009; Tysabri sales up 48%
- Elan reports revenues rose by 14% in second quarter; Pre-tax losses fell to $52.3 million from €69 million in 2008
- Elan reports third quarter profit after exceptional gain of $107.7m
- Elan reports third quarter revenues increased by 53% boosted by Tysabri sales; Operating loss fell to $39.3m
- Elan reports total revenue increased by 18% in H1 2008; Net loss fell by 44% to $159.4 million
- Elan revenues in first quarter boosted by Tysabri MS drug; Loss decreased by 8% to $85.5 million
- Elan says another MS patient on Tysabri drug has brain infection; Major shareholder calls for ouster of CEO Kelly Martin
- Elan to cut 230 jobs - - 115 in Ireland
- Elan's Tysabri multiple sclerosis (MS) drug has 31,800 patients worldwide
- Electrification in car industry to increase; Greatest challenge is high cost of batteries in range €10,000 to €15,000
- Element Six in Shannon agrees plan to save 160 jobs
- Element Six to cut 370 jobs at its plant in Shannon; Blames high-cost environment in Ireland
- Embattled C&C Group cuts 120 jobs at Bulmers Ireland
- Embattled insurance titan AIG scrambling for bridging finance of $75bn turns to Federal Reserve and State of New York; Shares plunge 61%
- Embattled Irish hoteliers seek immediate 30% reduction in commercial rates
- Embattled Setanta Sports on brink of collapse; Irish operation may be saved
- Emergency Irish Budget to target €4.5 billion in tax hikes and spending cuts
- Emerging Asia warned to be ready to act on potentially destabilizing capital inflows
- Emerging Asia's capital markets are starting to stabilise; Road to recovery will be long and hard
- Emerging Asia's middle class - - a force to be reckoned with
- Emerging East Asia heading for V-shaped recovery; Japan's export fall slowed to 35.7% in June
- Emerging East Asia's growth to moderate as inflation threat looms says Asian Development Bank
- Emerging East Asia's V-shaped recovery firmly on track; Time to unwind policy stimulus
- Emerging Europe Has Upside
- Emerging markets and domestic-demand-led growth: Rapid recovery in sight but not sufficient to counter several anaemic years in developed economies
- Emerging markets as emerging international investors
- Emerging markets economic growth softens says HSBC index; Fragile developed markets hit emerging markets exports
- Emerging markets will face grave problems in controlling inflation and money supply in fallout from financial markets turmoil in industrialised countries
- Emerging Markets: China should have increased consumption and Brazil investment - - not the reverse
- Emmitt Smith Plans Harlem Hotel
- Empire Strikes Back in Casino Battle
- Employers Offer Aid to Avert Foreclosures
- Employment in Irish industry fell 21,300 in 12 months to Q2 2009 despite rise in pharmaceutical production; Private sector unit labor costs also dipped
- Employment in the Eurozone fell a record 2.7 million in 2009; One in three unemployed persons in the EU27 have been jobless for over a year
- Empty Bank Branches Add To Supply In Retail Real Estate
- Empty Mall Stores Trigger Rent Cuts
- Empty Storefronts Blot Union Square
- End of the Office Party Is Coming
- Energy Prices Yield Boom for Some States
- England's Premier League top European football earnings in 2009 but wages at 67% of revenues threaten profitability
- Enormous fees paid to investment banks can swallow the gains from merger and takeover deals
- Enterprise Committee calls on Regulator to allow Quinn Insurance to participate in all profitable sections of the UK market
- Enterprise Ireland launches Seed & Venture Capital report for 2009
- Enterprise Ireland client company exports grew by 3% in 2008; Food sector accounting for 57% of exports grew 1% despite global commodity price boom
- Enterprise Ireland data shows claim of new orders of €100m secured on Cowen's March trip to US was false
- Enterprise Ireland has invested €275 million in the Third Level Research and Innovation system since 2000; Funded 18 start-up companies
- Enterprise Ireland seed and venture capital partnership funds made 103 investments worth €48.5m in 2007
- Entrepreneurial Spirit/ Innovation and the Crisis: Is US better equipped than Europe? Europe’s "extreme" export-orientation may be problem
- Entrepreneurs who succeed have better chance of success in subsequent ventures than first-timers or failures
- Entrepreneurship in Germany: what should be learned from Silicon Valley?
- Equity-Rich Property Buyers Get Richer
- Erickson Files for Chapter 11
- Ernst & Young ITEM Club says UK economy flirting with recession; Bank of England MPC member calls for interest rate cut
- Ernst & Young says Irish job numbers from FDI jumped "staggering" 56% in 2008 from 4,000 in 2007; IDA says net job numbers fell
- ESB's 435 new megawatts gas-fired station opened at Aghada, Co Cork - - Ireland's largest power station
- ESRI forecasts return to moderate Irish economic growth in 2011; Banking crisis "in no way" threatens solvency of State
- ESRI launches Handbook on Immigration and Asylum
- ESRI Medium-Term Review 2008-2015: Irish economy to grow at 3.75% annual rate; Business services exports very sensitive to Ireland’s competitiveness
- ESRI paper confirms Irish public/private pay premium for comparable jobs jumped from 14% to 26% in 2003/2006
- ESRI paper says 196,000 Irish households may be in negative equity by the end of 2010
- ESRI report says Ireland may meet its Kyoto Protocol commitment for 2008/2012 because of the recession
- ESRI says Irish Economy to shrink 9.2% in 2009 - - sharpest fall in an industrialised country since Great Depression; Employment to plunge by 187,300
- ESRI says the Irish economy will experience a recession in 2008 - the first time since 1983; Dramatic slowdown will result in sharp rise in public finances deficit
- ESRI slams Gormley's gombeenism on incineration; Irish waste policy has “no underlying rationale”; Likely to impose “needless costs on.. economy"
- ESRI supports single rate of tax relief on Irish pension contributions; Estimates savings in range €500 million to €1 billion
- Estonia says it is ready to become the Eurozone's 17th member country
- EU agrees funding of €100m for Irish infrastructure projects from €5bn economic stimulus package; German ambassador warns of second Irish No to Lisbon Treaty
- EU and Eurozone business confidence indicators improved again in September
- EU CAP Health Check: Currently 20% of farmers receive 80% of subsidies: Plan to cap cash handouts to rich farmers like the Queen of England and Ireland's Larry Goodman thwarted
- EU Commission forecasts Irish economic growth of 3% in 2011; Eurozone expansion of 1.5%
- EU Commission requests Bank of Ireland to suspend coupon payments on some securities
- EU Credit Crunch Seminar: Economic challenges facing the Irish economy are "homegrown"
- EU Credit Crunch Seminar: Economic challenges facing the Irish economy are "homegrown"
- EU Economic sentiment rebounds in April showing first noticeable increase in two years; Business Climate Indicator for the Eurozone also rose
- EU experts deadlocked on bans by France and Greece on GM maize; Global area of biotech crops rose to 125m hectares in 2008
- EU Finance Ministers term excessive executive pay awards “scandalous” ; Germany's President says global financial markets have become “a monster”
- EU is expected to renew anti-dumping tariffs on Chinese shoe imports
- EU leaders expected to agree main outline of new financial supervision system
- EU manufacturing recovery hopes led by UK and Italy; Business confidence rebounds strongly in BRIC manufacturing
- EU officials oppose Obama’s proposal to limit banks’ size and risk-taking; US Senate Republicans oppose requiring big banks to increase capital and liquidity requirements
- EU officials work on emergency fund to fight contagion; German Constitutional Court OKs Greek deal
- EU presidency says Europe's top 22 banks are "sufficiently capitalised"
- EU puts European emergency number 112 on the map before the summer holidays; 11890 to provide Free Directory Enquiries to Irish Consumers throughout the summer
- EU service sector set to shrink into 2009 as slower world growth spreads to BRIC; Industrial output falls in the Eurozone's three largest economies
- EU/Irish government support of €22.8m for Dell workers; €9,500 per head - - impact of collective power and individual powerlessness?
- EU10 Eastern European Countries adjusting to Global Financial Turmoil, some slowdown in growth welcome but inflation will remain a challenge says World Bank
- EU27 Households spend more than half of their expenditure on housing and food; Ireland leads with spending on alcohol at 4.1%
- EU27 public debt could rise to 100% of GDP by 2014; Eurozone forecast to grow 2% in 2010 and 1.5% in 2011
- Euribor 3-month rate falls but still elevated; Super-bears of bubble Roubini and Roach call for decisive action on financial crisis
- Euribor inter-bank lending rates rise to new high: 3-month rate at 5.05%; US dollar Libor rates fall towards Fed's 2% benchmark
- Euro hit by concerns ECB scaling back emergency liquidity support for Eurozone banks too soon
- Euro Reform: Commission President says "You can’t have a monetary union without having an economic union"
- Euro's role as a reserve currency is growing
- Europe and IMF agree €110bn financing plan with Greece
- Europe Faces More Property-Financing Pain
- Europe in Figures - Eurostat Yearbook 2008: Labour costs in 2006 varied by one to twenty in the EU27 + much more data
- Europe is experiencing the worst of the global recession
- Europe Property Rebound Faces Bumps
- Europe Property Woes Persist
- Europe returns to Coal: Italy to increase reliance on coal for power generation to 33% from 14% despite climate change concerns
- Europe's biggest banks face greater capital shortages than US counterparts; Deutsche Bank has liabilities of €2 trillion - over 80% of the German economy
- Europe's Collateral Damage: Property Investors
- Europe's Commercial-Property Sales Rise, as Values Slow
- Europe's Listed Firms May Be in for a Slump
- Europe's Property Sales Rise
- Europe's Real-Estate Firms Rebound
- Europe's REITs Face New Pain
- Europe's ten leading economic think-tanks expect ECB benchmark interest rate above 2% by end of 2011
- Europe's top economics institutes say Eurozone GDP to fall 0.4% in 2009; Modest growth in 2010; ECB to cut rates to 2% by May; Recommend urgent recapitalisation of banks
- Europe: Learning lessons from the crisis as recovery remains "fragile"
- European and UK banks are five times more exposed to Emerging Markets than banks in US and Japan; IMF in support talks with several countries
- European Bank for Reconstruction and Development warns two decades of economic reform in Eastern Europe at risk
- European bank shares boosted by strong earning results, revised Basel rules and flawed European stress-test results
- European Bank Stress Tests: AIB and Bank of Ireland pass tests; 7 of 91 banks failed - - 5 Spanish, 1 German and 1 Greek
- European banks will have to raise more capital/cut dividends after G-20 agreement on new global regulatory framework
- European biofuel target likely to be amended; UK report says a third of the food bought for home consumption is wasted
- European Broadband Access: An estimated 43% of Irish households have access in 2008 compared with 74% in Denmark and the Netherlands
- European car sales down 17.2% in Q1 2009; Germany up 18%; Ireland dips 64.9% and Iceland tumbles 91.3%
- European car sales fell 4.9% in May - - slide slowed by government scrappage schemes; Irish sales fell 50% in month; Down 64% in 2009
- European car sales fell 7.9% in June; Irish sales tumbled 48.7%
- European car sales recovered in April; Up 9.4%; Down 20.9% in Ireland; VW Golf Europe’s best-selling car
- European car sales rose in February despite a post-scrappage scheme plunge in Germany
- European car sales tumbled by 14.5% in October; Sales in Ireland dived 54.6% and 40% in Spain
- European Central Bank and Bank of England expected to keep rates on hold; Greek banks hit by capital outflows
- European Central Bank and Bank of England expected to leave interest rates at historic lows
- European Central Bank celebrates its 10th anniversary - a singular achievement that shouldn't be forgotten amidst the maelstrom of pettiness in Ireland's Lisbon Treaty debate
- European Central Bank cuts benchmark interest rate by 0.25% to 1.0%
- European Central Bank cuts benchmark interest rate by 0.25% to 1.25%
- European Central Bank cuts benchmark rate by 0.5% to 1.5% - - the lowest ever
- European Central Bank cuts benchmark rate by 0.5% to 3.25%; Trichet to address press conference
- European Central Bank cuts benchmark rate to 2.5%; Trichet to address Press Conference
- European Central Bank cuts key ECB benchmark interest rate by 0.5% to 2%
- European Central Bank drains €169.7bn in overnight funds from money market; Rising Euro increasing concern for ECB policymakers
- European Central Bank expected to cut benchmark interest rate by at least 0.5%; Bank of England may cut rate by as much as 1%
- European Central Bank expected to cut benchmark interest rate to 1% today; Trichet to announce position on new policy measures
- European Central Bank expected to cut benchmark interest rate to 2% today
- European Central Bank expected to keep benchmark interest rate at 4.25% today
- European Central Bank expected to keep benchmark interest rate on hold at 1%
- European Central Bank expected to keep benchmark interest rate on hold at 4.25% today
- European Central Bank expected to keep benchmark interest rate unchanged at 4.25% today
- European Central Bank expected to keep benchmark rate at 2%; Bank of England may cut rate to 1% - - a new low in its 315-year history
- European Central Bank expected to keep benchmark rate on hold at 1%
- European Central Bank expected to keep benchmark rate on hold at 4% today
- European Central Bank has done “excellent work” in managing financial turmoil the European Parliament says; Trichet tells MEPS inflation rate is likely to remain high for some time
- European Central Bank in dramatic move likely to increase benchmark interest rate to 4.25% in July; Economists' forecasts vaporise
- European Central Bank is expected to leave its benchmark rate unchanged at 4% today
- European Central Bank keeps benchmark interest rate on hold at 1.0%; Bank of England retains its rate at 0.5%
- European Central Bank keeps benchmark interest rate on hold at 1.0%; Trichet, to address press conference
- European Central Bank keeps benchmark interest rate on hold at 1.00%; Trichet to address press conference
- European Central Bank keeps benchmark interest rate on hold at 1.00%; Trichet to outline policy decisions at press conference
- European Central Bank keeps benchmark interest rate on hold at 1.00%; Trichet to outline policy decisions at press conference
- European Central Bank keeps benchmark interest rate on hold at 4%
- European Central Bank keeps benchmark interest rate on hold at 4.25%; Trichet to announce new forecasts for Eurozone inflation and growth at Press Conference
- European Central Bank keeps benchmark interest rate unchanged at 4.25%
- European Central Bank keeps benchmark rate at 1%; Bank of England kept its key rate at 0.5% - - the lowest since 1694
- European Central Bank keeps benchmark rate at 1%; Bank of England kept its key rate at 0.5% - - the lowest since 1694
- European Central Bank keeps benchmark rate at 1%; Trichet to address press conference
- European Central Bank keeps benchmark rate at 1%; Trichet to address press conference on the Greek crisis
- European Central Bank keeps benchmark rate on hold at 1%; Trichet to address press conference; Bank of England holds rate at 0.5% - - lowest since 1694
- European Central Bank keeps benchmark rate on hold at 1%; Trichet to hold press conference
- European Central Bank keeps benchmark rate on hold at 4.25%; Trichet to outline outlook for monetary policy at Press Conference
- European Central Bank keeps key benchmark interest rate at 2%; Trichet to address press conference
- European Central Bank kept its benchmark rate at 1%; Bank of England left its key rate at 0.5% - - the lowest since 1694
- European Central Bank lending to Irish financial institutions was €44.1 billion in July - the highest since the credit crisis began
- European Central Bank may cut benchmark rate by 0.75%; Bank of England may opt to cut by 1% to reduce rates to 1694 level
- European Central Bank Monthly Bulletin May 2009; Forecasters expect Eurozone GDP to contract by 3.4% in 2009
- European Central Bank policymakers seek to damp down speculation on the inevitability of interest rate cuts
- European Central Bank policymakers seek to dampen expectations of series of rate increases beyond benchmark rise to 4.25% in July
- European Central Bank policymakers seek to dampen expectations of series of rate increases beyond benchmark rise to 4.25% in July
- European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet says interest rates could be raised in July: Governing Council in "a state of heightened alertness" because of protracted high inflation
- European Central Bank President Trichet says financial markets remain under stress
- European Central Bank President Trichet says there is no room for complacency over inflation in the Eurozone
- European Central Bank raises benchmark interest rate to 4.25%; Trichet to outline position on inflation battle at Press Conference
- European Central Bank Rate Watch Sept 2008: Three Irish bank economists on interest rate outlook
- European Central Bank reports bank lending in the Eurozone tightened during the recent period of financial turmoil
- European Central Bank reports fall in growth of M3 money/credit measure in July signalling easing of inflationary pressures
- European Central Bank reports slight improvement in annual growth rate of money and credit in the Eurozone economy in March
- European Central Bank says Eurozone banks reported a tightening of credit standards and a fall in demand for loans by business and households in the first quarter
- European Central Bank says the rate of growth of M3 - money supply and credit in the Eurozone - fell in August signalling a decline in inflation pressures
- European Central Bank says total number of monetary financial institutions in Eurozone at 8,350 - down 15% in 10 years despite enlargement
- European Central Bank to cut benchmark rate by at least 0.5% next week after November plunges in Eurozone retail sales and economic confidence
- European Central Bank to raise benchmark interest rate to 4.25%
- European Central Bank warns of danger from rise in demand for euro banknotes outside Eurozone; Bank of England keeps benchmark rate on hold at 1694-year low of 0.5%
- European Central Bank's Executive Board member signals rise in benchmark interest rate to 4.25% in July to counter "unacceptable" inflation
- European Central Bank expected to keep interest rate unchanged at 1% today; Benchmark may remain fixed until late 2010
- European cities among best places to live; Vienna second to Vancouver in world ranking; Dublin at 49th rank ahead of London at 51st and Rome at 52nd
- European commercial property delivered a much improved euro-denominated total return of 3.7% in 2009
- European commercial property investment market turnover fell 44% in the first quarter of 2009
- European commercial property investment on a rebound; UK capital growth in December 2009 highest in 16 years
- European Commercial Property Market: Switzerland had best performance in 2008 with capital growth at 1.2%; Ireland had worst with negative growth of 37.2%
- European Commission accepts Greece's rescue plan but warns further spending cuts and new taxes might be needed
- European Commission accuses Greece of statistics fraud; New Finance Minister says: "There is no skeleton in the closet"
- European Commission approves establishment of National Asset Management Agency - - the State toxic property loans relief scheme for financial institutions in Ireland
- European Commission approves restructuring plan of Bank of Ireland
- European Commission approves split of UK bank Northern Rock
- European Commission clears acquisition of Irish company Horizon Technology by US-based company Avnet
- European Commission data shows Irish companies and farmers received over €2 billion from CAP in 2008; 550 farmers and companies received more than €100,000 each
- European Commission extends period for Ireland's fiscal adjustment by one year to 2014
- European Commission fines Intel €1.06 billion for breach of EU anti-trust laws in response to complaint from chip giant's American rival AMD
- European Commission gives temporary approval for Irish Government to inject funds in Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide; Restructuring plans have to be submitted by June
- European Commission launches excess deficit procedures for Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Latvia and Malta; Irish growth scenario optimistic and measures lack detail
- European Commission opens an excessive deficit procedure against the Irish Government
- European Commission proposes largely aspirational Recovery Plan valued at €200 billion - 1.5% of EU GDP; Ireland opts out
- European Commission proposes to allow lower VAT rates on some labour-intensive services
- European Commission questions Irish Government’s ability to implement its recovery plan for the public finances
- European Commission says average EU unemployment rate in the first quarter of 2008 fell to 6.7% - down from 7.4% a year earlier
- European Commission says average EU unemployment rate in the first quarter of 2008 fell to 6.7% - down from 7.4% a year earlier
- European Commission says economic growth is expected to come to a virtual stand-still in both the EU and the Eurozone in 2009
- European Commission says employment expansion appears to be moderating further following economic slowdown but remains positive
- European Commission says end of Europe’s recession in sight; Job cuts in two years to wipe out gains since 2006; Ireland facing deep recession
- European Commission says Irish economy will contract by 5% in 2009; GDP growth in Eurozone expected to fall 1.9% and by 1.8% in EU27
- European Commission says signs for economic recovery are apparent but sustainability remains to be tested
- European Commission to launch a baby-step stimulus plan today
- European Commission warns of likely permanent loss in Eurozone potential economic output because of global economic crisis
- European Commission:: France, Spain, Finland and Belgium get economic portfolios; Ireland gets Research and Innovation but no policymaking role
- European Commission; Business Climate Indicator declined in the Eurozone in April; Economic Sentiment Indicator fell in both the Eurozone and EU
- European companies predict layoffs will slow; 26% of Irish firms have made pay cuts
- European companies write off debt of €300bn - - equivalent to the national debt of Greece
- European construction sector will remain weak until at least 2010 because of the financial crisis
- European consumer and business confidence fell to new lows in March but pace of decline slowed
- European countries challenge drugs companies on prices; Europe's drugs bill has risen by 50% in real terms in a decade
- European countries lagging on fibre-based broadband networks
- European demand for new cars fell slightly in January-May 2008; Ireland heads declines at 15.5%; Irish car sales down 50.7% in May
- European Economic Advisory Group experts: Europe set to recover in 2010
- European Economic Sentiment continues in May to recover from historical lows
- European Economy 2010: Transition towards a tepid recovery
- European exports to main trading partners fell by more than 25% in January
- European finance ministers support reviews of national budget proposals but with no veto on them
- European Food Safety Authority says Irish pork is safe to eat
- European governments bailout/seize four banks; Euribor inter-bank rate rises to record: Irish bank shares crash to 20-year lows - AIB down 21% - Anglo Irish down 32%; IL&P 34%
- European governments selling property assets to ease debt burdens; UK commercial development hit by dip in public sector activity
- European Housing Review 2009: Ireland has floor areas per person of a fifth less than Western European average
- European industrial orders dropped for an eighth month in March but pace of downturn slowed
- European industrial orders jumped in June - - more evidence of easing of recession
- European industrial production plunged by the most on record in year to April; Eurozone down 21.6%
- European Innovation 2008: Global Information Technology Report 2007-2008 puts Estonia ahead of Ireland for second year
- European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) 2008: Sweden gets top rank; Ireland growth leader among group of Innovation followers
- European Investment Bank - - the EU's long-term lender - - expands lending for Irish projects
- European Investment Bank lends the EirGrid Ireland-Wales electricity link €300 million and €200 million to the ESB to help Ireland secure and green its electricity supplies
- European Investment Bank to provide Irish SMEs with €300m in loans in coming weeks
- European Investment Monitor: UK leads in Foreign Direct Investment Projects in 2007; Ireland had 80 projects compared with 123 for 10th ranking Netherlands
- European leaders agree on financial markets regulation including hedge funds and tax havens
- European Manufacturing optimism plunges on back of inflation fears; Manufacturers in Ireland and Spain most gloomiest
- European Migration: Barbarians or Geniuses at the Gate? - - Prof. Hans-Werner Sinn
- European new car market posted fifteen-year low in 2008 - down 7.8%; Ireland fell 18.7% in year - 61.9% in December
- European new car market up 11.2% in October; Irish sales down 62.4% in the 10 months of 2009
- European new construction to fall 20% in 2009; 1 million unsold housing units in Spain; Poland is star performer
- European new passenger car registrations fell 12.3% in April; Up +19.4% in Germany; Down -90.8% in Iceland, -65.2% in Ireland and -28.5% the UK
- European Parliament marks ten years of the euro; Trichet warns Eurozone faces pressing challenges; Ireland cited as beneficiary during period of turmoil
- European pension funds increase weightings in non-traditional asset classes; 47% of Irish schemes have indicated a further decrease in equity exposure
- European producer prices dropped the most in at least 28 years in June
- European REIT Rollout at Hand
- European report says Irish house prices should be left fall further; Real mortgage rates in Ireland were zero or negative between 1999 and 2005
- European residential construction fell by one-fifth in 2008 and 2009 - - back to 1995 level; Further dip of 2% expected in 2010
- European sovereign debt crisis may hit already-tepid growth; Asia far more important for US outlook
- European summit expected to be dominated by Greece; European Central Bank opposes IMF intervention
- European Union and IMF agree €750bn safety net for embattled Eurozone countries
- European Union banks may have further problems with toxic assets and capital shortages says OECD
- European Union countries will be required to introduce an upfront levy on banks to insure against future financial failures
- European Union finance ministers approve capital rise at European Investment Bank to boost lending
- European Union leaders agree to publish detailed results of stress tests of 25 big European banks; Greece’s fiscal consolidation plan remains on track
- European Union panel proposes overhaul of financial regulation system
- European Union special summit in Brussels sets 100-day deadline to draw up ambitious reforms for the global financial system
- European Union Spring Economic Forecast 2008-2009: Growth Moderates: Price Pressures a worry but overall, EU weathers external headwinds well; Eurozone average inflation forecast at 3.2% in 2008
- European Union-wide authority to deal with failed banks needed says IMF chief; "Pretense of progress" not sufficient
- Europeans have average of €12,500 per head to spend on consumer goods in 2008 ranging from €45,000 in Liechtenstein to €800 in Moldova
- Europe’s manufacturing and service industries contracted for an 11th month in April; Rate of decline in activity slowed
- Eurozone industrial production grew by 0.5% in May - - the first rise since August 2008
- Eurozone and EU27 budget deficit at 6.3%/ 6.8% of GDP in 2009; Government debt at 78.7% and 73.6%
- Eurozone and EU27 GDP down by 2.5% in first quarter of 2009; Annual falls at -4.6% and -4.4% respectively
- Eurozone and EU27 GDP rose by 0.7% in first quarter; +2.2% and +2.4% on Q1 2007
- Eurozone and EU27 GDP up by 0.2% in Q1 2010
- Eurozone annual food prices rose 6.2% in April compared with 3.3% for overall inflation; Irish food prices rose 8.4%; Annual price increase in the EU was 14.9% for milk, cheese & eggs
- Eurozone annual food prices rose 6.2% in April compared with 3.3% for overall inflation; Irish food prices rose 8.4%; Annual price increase in the EU was 14.9% for milk, cheese & eggs
- Eurozone annual inflation confirmed at 0.6% in April 2009
- Eurozone annual inflation confirmed at 0.6% in March 2009; Ireland at -0.7% - - the biggest annual fall
- Eurozone annual inflation confirmed at 1.1% in January 2009
- Eurozone annual inflation confirmed at 4.0% in June; EU27 up to 4.3%
- Eurozone annual inflation down to 0.9% in February; EU27 down to 1.4%
- Eurozone annual inflation down to 1.4% In June; Monthly inflation was 0.0%
- Eurozone annual inflation down to 2.1%; EU down to 2.8%
- Eurozone annual inflation expected to be -0.3% in September 2009; ECB lends banks €75.2 billion in second 12-month auction
- Eurozone annual inflation expected to be 1.6% in May 2010; ECB says money/credit supply unchanged in April
- Eurozone annual inflation falls to 0.0% in May; ECB money supply growth indicator falls to 4.9% in April
- Eurozone annual inflation fell 3.2% in October 2008; Further ECB rate cuts likely
- Eurozone annual inflation fell to 1.4% in June 2010; ECB ends covered bonds purchase programme
- Eurozone annual inflation fell to 3.3% in April
- Eurozone annual inflation fell to 3.6% in September 2008
- Eurozone annual inflation fell to record low of 0.6% in March
- Eurozone annual inflation in July is expected to rise to 4.1%
- Eurozone annual inflation is expected to be 0.9% in December 2009
- Eurozone annual inflation is expected to be 1.0% in January; ECB says bank lending will remain tight in Q1 2010; M3 was negative again in December
- Eurozone annual inflation is expected to be 3.2% in October 2008; ECB rate cut of 0.5% likely next week
- Eurozone annual inflation is expected to be 3.6% in September 2008 down from 3.8% in August
- Eurozone annual inflation is expected to rise to 1.5% in March 2010
- Eurozone annual inflation plunged to 1.6% in December 2008
- Eurozone annual inflation plunged to 2.1% in November
- Eurozone annual inflation rises to -0.1% in October 2009; Household savings rate at 16.5% in Q2 compared with 4.9% in US
- Eurozone annual inflation rises to 1.5% in April; Unemployment rate steady at 10% in March -- Germany only EU27 country where jobless rate fell from March 2009
- Eurozone annual inflation stable at 4.0% in July 2008 - up from 1.8% in July 2007
- Eurozone annual inflation steady at 0.6% in April
- Eurozone annual inflation turned negative in June for the first time on record
- Eurozone annual inflation up to 1.2% in February; EU down to 1.7%
- Eurozone annual inflation up to 1.6% in May
- Eurozone annual inflation was -0.1% in October 2009 down from 3.2% a year before
- Eurozone annual inflation was -0.2% in August 2009, up from -0.7% in July
- Eurozone annual inflation was -0.3% in September 2009 down from -0.2% in August
- Eurozone annual inflation was 0.0% in May 2009; A year earlier the rate was 3.7%
- Eurozone annual inflation was 1.0% in January 2010; EU27 prices rose 1.7%
- Eurozone annual inflation was 1.5% in April 2010; Lowest rate in EU27 was in Ireland - - highest was in Hungary
- Eurozone Bank Lending Survey: Irish banks report fall in demand for business and household loans in Q2; Other banks report increase in credit tightening
- Eurozone bank lending to industry fell again in November
- Eurozone banks eased credit restrictions slightly in the last three months
- Eurozone banks face additional losses of more than $283bn in 2009/2010; Deutsche Bank Research says European and US banks face lean years ahead
- Eurozone business climate and economic sentiment continued to improve in April
- Eurozone Business Climate Indicator and Economic Sentiment Indicator rose for eighth consecutive month in November
- Eurozone Business Climate Indicator continued to decline in August; Economic Sentiment Indicator in EU fell to lowest level since December 1993
- Eurozone Business Climate Indicator continued to decline in July; Economic Sentiment Indicator also fell sharply in both the EU and the Eurozone
- Eurozone Business Climate Indicator unchanged in June after 14 months of improvement; Economic Sentiment Indicator also unchanged
- Eurozone business confidence rose again in July
- Eurozone Composite PMI: Broad-based easing in rates of contraction evident in March
- Eurozone confidence indicators rose for seventh consecutive month in October
- Eurozone confidence surveys point to continued optimism in January
- Eurozone construction output up by 7.6% in March after severe weather
- Eurozone Consumer Confidence Indicator slipped in May - - a month dominated by debt crisis in Greece: Business climate slightly improved
- Eurozone consumers holding up but for how long?
- Eurozone contraction accelerates in February
- Eurozone debt crisis weakens German consumer confidence
- Eurozone deflation ended in November as annual consumer price inflation rose for first time in 7 months
- Eurozone economic climate indicator improves again; Ireland seen as only member country economy worsening in coming six months
- Eurozone economic outlook: Further contraction forecast in first three quarters of 2009 but at declining pace
- Eurozone economic prospects remain subdued; ECB to keep interest rates on hold today
- Eurozone economy returns to growth in third quarter for first time since Q1 2008; Big 3 - - Germany, France and Italy - - all expanded
- Eurozone economy sees strongest growth for two-and-a-half years in March
- Eurozone economy shrank at annual 4.8% rate in Q1 2009 - - more than first estimated; Producer prices plunged 4.6% in year to April
- Eurozone economy shrank the most since at least 1995 in the fourth quarter 2008
- Eurozone Economy: The IMF says restoring confidence key to growth
- Eurozone employment stable at 7.1% in April; Irish unemployment at 5.7%; Spanish rate at 9.6%
- Eurozone employment stable in Q1 2010 and EU27 down by 0.2% - - 455,000 persons
- Eurozone employment stable in Q1 2010 and EU27 down by 0.2% - - 455,000 persons
- Eurozone entered recession in third quarter for the first time in 15 years
- Eurozone external trade surplus €1.8bn In April; €10.2bn deficit for EU27
- Eurozone Final Manufacturing PMI fall in March eased from February low
- Eurozone finance ministers agree on how support package for Greece would be provided if the need quickly arises
- Eurozone finance ministers agree terms for possible €30bn bailout for Greece; Papandreou says ditching euro would be a "joke"
- Eurozone finance ministers meet to discuss Greece; French Economy Minister urges Germany to cut trade surplus and boost demand
- Eurozone finance ministers reject US calls to add to stimulus packages; Return to economic growth in 2010 “highly uncertain”
- Eurozone finance ministers tell Greece to introduce tougher spending cuts and new taxes
- Eurozone Flash PMI - Purchasing Managers' Index - Output falls for first time in five years but prices continue upward trend
- Eurozone Flash PMI Composite Output Index edges up to 51.9 in April; Manufacturing dropped to its lowest level since August 2005; Service sector picked up; Price pressures intensified
- Eurozone forecasters expect the economy to contract by 1.7% this year; Industrial production fell 12% in the Eurozone in 2008
- Eurozone GDP confirmed as having increased by 0.4% in Q3 2009; Volume of retail trade remained stable in October
- Eurozone GDP dip confirmed at -0.1% in Q2 2009; Bank of Ireland's McLaughlin says global recession is probably over
- Eurozone GDP fall in Q1 2009 confirmed at 2.5%
- Eurozone GDP falls only 0.1% in Q2 2009 following surprise growth in Germany and France
- Eurozone GDP fell 0.2% in the second quarter of 2008: EU27 GDP fell 0.1%; Economies of Eurozone's Big 4 - Germany, France, Italy and Spain all shrank
- Eurozone GDP growth confirmed at 0.2% in Q1 2010; German manufacturing orders fell 0.5% in May but up 24.7% on 2009
- Eurozone GDP in first quarter revised down; German and French exports fell in May
- Eurozone GDP in Q4 2008 fell 1.5% - - up 0.8% in 2008
- Eurozone GDP rose 0.1% in the fourth quarter of 2009; Germany stagnated; the French economy grew and Italy shrank
- Eurozone GDP will be back to 2008 level in 2012 - - 9% below “no crisis” scenario
- Eurozone growth accelerates in April led by ten-year high in manufacturing
- Eurozone growth in the fourth quarter of 2009 revised down to zero; Industrial prices rose 0.1% in February
- Eurozone growth of 1.2% forecast in 2010; Smaller contraction expected in 2009
- Eurozone growth unexpectedly resilient says IMF as it revises its forecast for 2008; ; Says ECB benchmark rate should be kept on hold; Trichet says euro has been a remarkable success
- Eurozone heads of state and government to hold May summit on Greek crisis
- Eurozone household savings rate in December 2009 was 15.1% compared with US at 3.6% and Japan just above 2.0%
- Eurozone industrial orders fell again in May; Ireland had biggest fall at 13.2% in month but smallest in year at 9.3%
- Eurozone industrial orders fell in October 2009; Industrial prices rose in November
- Eurozone industrial orders plunged by 3.9% in September
- Eurozone industrial producer price index fell 0.1% in December - - down 2.9% in 2009; German retail sales rose in December
- Eurozone industrial producer prices up by 0.9% in month of April
- Eurozone industrial production down 17% in year to June: Ireland only riser - - boosted by 30.5% surge in US-owned chemical sector
- Eurozone industrial production down by 2.0% in March 2009; Down 20.2% in 12-month period; Finland up 2.2% in March - no data for Ireland
- Eurozone industrial production expanded 0.3% in September
- Eurozone industrial production fell 0.6% in October
- Eurozone industrial production fell 1.2% in October - down 5.0% in the 12-month period
- Eurozone industrial production fell in March
- Eurozone industrial production in April surges to the largest year-to-year increase since records began in 1990
- Eurozone industrial production in the month of February 2010 grew by 0.9%
- Eurozone industrial production increased 0.9% in May
- Eurozone industrial production increased by 1.1% in August
- Eurozone industrial production plunged 17.3% in Eurozone in year to January
- Eurozone industrial production rose 1% in the month of November 2009
- Eurozone industrial production rose for a fourth month in August
- Eurozone Industrial Production stable in June; Ifo Economic Climate Indicator falls further
- Eurozone industrial production surged in January; December was revised up; Chemical sector boosted Irish production by 15.3% in month
- Eurozone industrial production unexpectedly rose in April by 0.9%; Ireland fell 13.7% and Germany was down 0.7%
- Eurozone inflation at -0.6% in July; June unemployment rate highest since June 1999; Netherlands jobless at 3.3%; Spain at 18.1%
- Eurozone inflation estimated at 3.3% in April - down from 16-year high in March
- Eurozone inflation estimated at 3.6% in May - a return to a 16-year high
- Eurozone inflation estimated at 3.8% in August; Down from 4% in July
- Eurozone inflation is expected to drop in April following German price falls
- Eurozone inflation is expected to drop in April following German price falls
- Eurozone inflation jumped to 4% in June - the highest since May 1992: ECB expected to raise benchmark rate to 4.25% on Thursday
- Eurozone inflation remained close to the lowest rate since 1999 in February
- Eurozone inflation returns to record levels
- Eurozone inflation tumbles to 1.1% in January
- Eurozone Inflation was 3.7% in May - the highest since June 1992; Food and energy price costs both accelerated
- Eurozone June Retail Sales fell by the most since at least 1995
- Eurozone labour market has held up much better than its US counterpart in the Great Recession
- Eurozone leaders agree rescue plan for Greece with IMF involvement
- Eurozone leaders promise Greece if it cuts its budget deficit “determined and co-ordinated action if needed to safeguard stability”
- Eurozone lending to private sector contracted at accelerating rate in October
- Eurozone M3 money supply growth falls more than expected in January signalling another interest rate cut next week
- Eurozone manufacturing and service output falls at fastest rate since late-2001 in aftermath of 9/11 terrorist attacks
- Eurozone manufacturing and service output grows at fastest pace in October since December 2007
- Eurozone manufacturing and services activity plunged to record low in October
- Eurozone manufacturing and services sectors grow at fastest pace in two years in November
- Eurozone manufacturing downturn continued in August: German retail sales flat in year to July
- Eurozone manufacturing expands at fastest pace since November 2006 in March led by Germany/ France; Exports show biggest rise for ten years
- Eurozone manufacturing output growth fastest for nearly 10 years in April but Greece suffers further contraction
- Eurozone Manufacturing PMI at highest level since August 2007; Germany accelerated while Spain, Ireland and Greece fell
- Eurozone Manufacturing PMI at a four-month low in June; Employment rose for second month
- Eurozone Manufacturing PMI confirmed at 21-month high at end of 2009
- Eurozone Manufacturing PMI in September signals sector is close to returning to growth after 16 months of contraction
- Eurozone Manufacturing PMI lowest since August 2005 led by record contraction in consumer goods sector; New order trends weaken in all big-four nations
- Eurozone Manufacturing PMI lowest since August 2005 led by record contraction in consumer goods sector; New order trends weaken in all big-four nations
- Eurozone Manufacturing PMI reached a 14-month high in August
- Eurozone manufacturing PMI rises in January; Record job losses reported
- Eurozone Manufacturing PMI rose to a 20-month high in November
- Eurozone Manufacturing PMI signals contraction as downturns gather pace in France, Spain and Italy
- Eurozone Manufacturing PMI sinks to five-year low in July as business conditions deteriorate further
- Eurozone manufacturing recovery slowed sharply in May
- Eurozone manufacturing sector grew in October for first time since May 2008
- Eurozone manufacturing sector slumped in October; Industrial production fell at annual rate of 6% - a pace not seen since 1993
- Eurozone manufacturing surge in February offsets slower growth in services
- Eurozone medium-term trend growth to fall to 1-1.5%; Government spending and cheap credit no longer growth drivers
- Eurozone money supply growth expanded in Eurozone in March
- Eurozone new industrial orders fell 3.5% in May and 4.4% in the year - the steepest on an annual basis since August 2003
- Eurozone new industrial orders fell 5.2% in December - down 22.3% in 2008
- Eurozone new industrial orders increased by 2.5% in April
- Eurozone new industrial orders index fell by 1.0% in April signalling slow recovery; Down 35.5% in 12-month period
- Eurozone new industrial orders index jumped by 3.8% in May
- Eurozone new industrial orders index rose by 5.2% in month of March 2010
- Eurozone new industrial orders rose 2% in August; Orders fell in Ireland -14.6%
- Eurozone new industrial orders surged 2.7% in November boosted by Germany; Down 0.5% in year to November; Annual Irish orders plunged -26.5%
- Eurozone output rise spread to services in September; PMI data shows rates of increase remain subdued; Employment falls sharply again
- Eurozone PMI at two-year high in January; France and Germany leading the recovery but Spain, Ireland and Greece fall further behind
- Eurozone PMI data in August shows sharp easing in service sector downturn; First gain in manufacturing for 15 months
- Eurozone PMI data in August shows sharp easing in service sector downturn; First gain in manufacturing for 15 months
- Eurozone PMI data shows manufacturing contracted in November at the fastest pace since at least June 1997
- Eurozone PMI data shows output growth up in manufacturing and services; Employment rises at fastest pace for over two years
- Eurozone PMI data signals further easing of downturn in May as output, orders and employment show reduced rates of decline
- Eurozone PMI June: Rate of contraction slowest for nine months in June; Easing in manufacturing but steeper decline in services
- Eurozone PMI March: Output and new orders show easings in rates of decline; Job losses reach new high
- Eurozone PMI points to continued retail sales weakness in August; Stabilisation in Germany - - steep falls in Italy; ECB says credit demand fell in July
- Eurozone PMI signals weakest output growth since July 2003, but charges for goods and service rise at steepest rate for 14 months
- Eurozone PMI: New record rate of output decline seen in December; Prices also fall at record rates
- Eurozone posted a trade surplus in March for the first time in almost a year
- Eurozone posted trade surplus in 12 months to September 2009; Extra-EU27 trade was in deficit
- Eurozone producer prices fell at record pace in October
- Eurozone rate of output contraction eases marginally from December record but job losses hit new high and prices show steepest ever declines
- Eurozone recovery continues in January but output growth slows
- Eurozone recovery shows first rise in employment for 2 years; Faster growth in services limits impact of sharp slowdown in manufacturing
- Eurozone retail PMI continued to deteriorate in June but rate of decline eased; Record fall in inventories presents hopeful signal
- Eurozone Retail PMI in mildest decline in 11 months in April; Better weather and car incentives provide sales boost
- Eurozone retail sales declined in March but at slower rate
- Eurozone retail sales down 4% in year to February
- Eurozone retail sales fall sharply in January - dropping for the eighth month running but rate of decline easing
- Eurozone Retail Sales fell again in July; Sales in Italy and Germany fell sharply; Modest rise in France
- Eurozone retail sales fell at sharpest rate in February since March 2009
- Eurozone retail sales fell for fifth month running in May
- Eurozone retail sales fell for sixth month running in June
- Eurozone retail sales fell for the third consecutive month in August: Sales rose in France; Sharp declines in Germany and Italy
- Eurozone retail sales fell further in April; Germany hit by end of car scrappage scheme
- Eurozone retail sales fell in November; Germany in steepest dip in five months
- Eurozone Retail Sales fell in October for the fifth consecutive month
- Eurozone retail sales fell in September; Employment rates cut as sales decline gathers pace; Sales rose marginally in France
- Eurozone retail sales fell in September; Employment rates cut as sales decline gathers pace; Sales rose marginally in France
- Eurozone Retail Sales fell sharply in April; Retailers reported a widespread inability to pass on rising costs due to price resistance
- Eurozone retail sales fell sharply in March
- Eurozone retail sales in March fell at lowest rate in five months; Sales down for ten consecutive months
- Eurozone retail sales in November 2009 fell by 1.2%; Down 4% in 12-month period
- Eurozone retail sales rose at fastest rate in over two years in July
- Eurozone retail sales rose in May with Germany and France accounting for half the region's output showing strong gains
- Eurozone retail sales rose slightly in December
- Eurozone retail sales stabilised in October; German retail sales fell in September
- Eurozone retail sales volume fell 0.2% in July 2009
- Eurozone retail sales volume fell by 0.4% in July and 2.8% in year; Eurozone GDP confirmed down 0.2% in the second quarter
- Eurozone retail sales volume flat in December -- down 1.6% in 2009
- Eurozone retail sales volume increased 1.2% in May following April decline
- Eurozone retail sales volume increased in May
- Eurozone retail sales: Easing of decline in Germany in July; Steeper downturns in France and Italy
- Eurozone retail sector sales fell in January as exceptionally harsh winter weather hit activity
- Eurozone Retail September PMI in sixteenth consecutive monthly fall - - smallest monthly decline since June 2008
- Eurozone retail trade fell 0.2% in September - less than expected
- Eurozone retail trade volume down by 0.6% in Eurozone in February; Stable in EU27
- Eurozone retail volume down by 0.4% in May compared with April
- Eurozone savings rate falls to 15.8% in Q3 2009 compared with 4.7% in US and 2.0% in Japan
- Eurozone Service Activity in August in marginal easing in the pace of decline from July’s five-year record low
- Eurozone service and manufacturing May PMI shows rate of composite output contraction easing at record pace
- Eurozone service sector contraction accelerated marginally in June compared with trend of the 3 months to May 2009
- Eurozone service sector contracts at record pace in October
- Eurozone service sector expanded in November at fastest pace in almost two years
- Eurozone service sector growth holds steady at slow pace in April as faster growth in Germany contrasts with weakness elsewhere; Spain reports record job cuts
- Eurozone service sector improves in August led by rebound in Germany; Confidence rose to 28-month high
- Eurozone service sector optimism dropped to record low in September; Price pressures ease again
- Eurozone service sector posted first growth in 16 months in September
- Eurozone services activity fell at record rate in December while job cutting accelerated
- Eurozone services activity in October expands at fastest pace since 2007; Recovery coincides with ongoing job losses and price discounting
- Eurozone Services Business Activity Index fell in June for first time in five years
- Eurozone Services Business Activity Index in July falls to five-year low; Record rates of contraction in France and Italy accompanied by near-record decline in Spain; Only Germany saw growth
- Eurozone Services Business Activity Index in July falls to five-year low; Record rates of contraction in France and Italy accompanied by near-record decline in Spain; Only Germany saw growth
- Eurozone services sector expanded for the tenth month running in June; Growth slowed slightly
- Eurozone services sector expanded in March at fastest rate since November 2007
- Eurozone services sector reports fastest expansion since August 2007
- Eurozone Services: Record fall in business activity as downturn gathers pace in all big countries
- Eurozone set to grow 0.7% in 2009 - 1% above IMF forecast; ECB should cut benchmark interest rate to 3% in coming months
- Eurozone Summit: Germany and France jointly call for improved economic governance in the wake of the Greek debt crisis
- Eurozone trade surplus more than doubled in June; In Jan/May 2009 Germany had biggest surplus followed by Ireland
- Eurozone trade surplus rose in April - German surplus in first quarter was €50.4bn
- Eurozone unemployment rate at 10.0% in February; Netherlands lowest at 4%; Ireland at 13.2% and Spain at 19%
- Eurozone unemployment rate at 10.1% in April; Netherlands at 4.1%, Ireland 13.2% and Spain 19.7%
- Eurozone unemployment rate at 9.7% in September 2009; Lowest Netherlands 3.6%; Highest Latvia 19.7%; Ireland at 13%
- Eurozone unemployment rate at 9.9% in January; 4.2% in Netherlands; 18.8% in Spain and 13.8% in Ireland, Youth unemployment was at 20.2% and 32.4% in Ireland
- Eurozone unemployment rate rises to 10% in November; Dutch rate at 3.9%; Irish at 12.9% and Spanish at 19.4%; Q3 2009 second GDP estimate unchanged
- Eurozone unemployment rate rose to 9.5% in May 2009 -highest rate since 1999; Netherlands at 3.2%; Denmark at 5.7%; Ireland 12%; Spain highest at 18.7%
- Eurozone unemployment rate rose to 9.6% in August 2009; Lowest in Netherlands 3.5%; Highest in Spain 18.9%; Ireland at 12.5%
- Eurozone unemployment rate stable at 7.5% in September; Netherlands at 2.5% and Denmark at 2.9%; Spain rises to 11.9%; Ireland climbs to 6.6%
- Eurozone unemployment rate unchanged at 7.2% in May 2008; Irish rate rises to 6%; Spain to 9.9% - lowest in Denmark: 2.7% and the Netherlands: 2.9%
- Eurozone unemployment rate unchanged at 9.8% in October 2009; Youth rate at 20.6%; 3.1 million additional unemployed in 12 months
- Eurozone unemployment rate was unchanged at 10.0% in May 2010; Unemployment rate fell in five countries
- Eurozone unemployment rises to 7.7% in October; Netherlands at 2.5%; Highest in Spain at 12.8%. Ireland's rate was 7.1%
- Eurozone unemployment rises to 8.0% in December; Netherlands at 2.7%; Spain 14.4% and Ireland 8.2%
- Eurozone unemployment rises to 9.2% in April - - the highest level in almost 10 years; Lowest in the Netherlands 3.0% and Austria 4.2%; Highest in Spain at 18.1%
- Eurozone unemployment rose to 10% in December 2009; Ireland's rate was at 13.3%; Netheralnds at 4.0% and Spain at 19.5%
- Eurozone unemployment stable at 7.1% in March; Big jumps in Spain and Ireland; Rate falls in Germany for 27th straight month in April
- Eurozone unemployment stable at 7.3% in June; EU27 stable at 6.8% - Largest annual rises in Spain: Rate at 10.7% and Ireland: at 5.7%; Lowest rates in Denmark: 2.6% and the Netherlands: 2.8%
- Eurozone unemployment stable at 7.3%; EU27 stable at 6.8%; Highest annual increases in Spain: 8.2% to 11.0% and Ireland 4.6% to 5.9%; Lowest rate in Denmark at 2.3%
- Eurozone unemployment up to 7.8% in November; Lowest in Netherlands at 2.7%; Highest in Spain 13.4%; Ireland at 7.9%
- Eurozone will return to gradual growth in 2010 and Ireland by 2011 when Irish debt/GDP ratio will rise to 96%
- Eurozone's manufacturing and service industries contracted in November at the fastest pace in at least a decade
- Eurozone: Further drop in the Ifo Economic Climate Indicator
- Eurozone’s recession deepened in the fourth quarter of 2008
- Eurozoze economy contracted slightly more than originally estimated in the second quarter
- Even the Rich Get Home-Equity Yanked
- Evidence mounts that US may experience the worst recession since the early 1980's
- Ex-Comptroller and Auditor General Purcell to investigate role of chartered accountants in Irish banking scandals
- Ex-McKinsey partner says hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam paid $1.75 million for tips on clients
- Ex-Nasdaq Chairman Bernard Madoff charged with massive client securities fraud; He estimates fraud could amount to $50 billion
- Ex-RBS chief surrenders one third of pension bonanza; Ex-BoI chief still laughing all the way to the bank from the bank
- Examiner appointed to property unit of Cork-based Fleming Group
- Exchange Traded Funds based in Dublin launched by Source - - an open architecture platform created by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley
- Exchequer Returns for November show deterioration in Irish public finances accelerated with a deficit of €7.9 billion; Lenihan says major gap between spending levels and tax receipts
- Exchequer Returns: Deficit grows to €22.7bn in the year to October; Lenihan says overall tax take this year is back at 2003 levels
- Existing Japanese R&D Project in Galway "formally" announced by Taoiseach
- Existing-Home Sales Decline
- Expect a Jolt When Opening the Electric Bill
- Expectations of a global economic recession have risen sharply among fund managers and risk aversion has reached a new high
- Expenditure on international trips by Irish residents rose 17.1% in Q1 2008
- Expert panel recommends cloud whitening in response to climate change threat; White roads/roofs also provide cost-effective solution
- Extended Stay Could Transfer Chain to Lenders
- Extended Stay Legal Battle Erupts
- Extended Stay Seeks Chapter 11
- Extended Stay Switches Bedfellows
- Extreme Makeover: Bankruptcy
- Facebook to establish international headquarters in Dublin; No jobs data provided
- Failure of suppliers’ businesses is the number one concern for manufacturers
- Fairfield Files for Chapter 11
- Fall in US oil consumption in the first half of 2008 was biggest drop in the last 26 years
- Fall in visits to Ireland continues in June 2009; Large number of Irish hotels will be transferred to "bad bank" NAMA
- Fall of 48.8% in new private cars licensed in Ireland in December 2008
- Fall of 60.2% in new Irish private cars licensed in May 2009
- Fall of 66.6% in new Irish private cars licensed in January
- Falling for Florida
- Falling immigration is slowing Irish population growth
- Fallout from Deal for Zell's Empire
- Famed Builder Is Acquired
- Family Feud Upsets Asian Firm
- Family Skirts Foreclosure
- Fannie Aims to Head Off Foreclosures
- Fannie Names New CFO, Risk Chief
- Fannie Posts Deep Loss
- Fannie Tightens Lending Standards
- Fannie to Aid Underwater Loans
- Fannie to Scrap Policy Over Down Payments
- Fannie, Freddie Aim to Slow Defaults
- Fannie, Freddie Are Pounded
- Fannie, Freddie Books Under Scrutiny
- Fannie, Freddie Called Weak in Capital Base
- Fannie, Freddie Cut Some Mortgage Rates
- Fannie, Freddie Divide Economists
- Fannie, Freddie Expand in a Bright Spot
- Fannie, Freddie Halt Foreclosures
- Fannie, Freddie Impact on Banks Downplayed
- Fannie, Freddie Plan Is Under Siege
- Fannie, Freddie's Right to Lobby Questioned
- FAO says food prices in many countries remain very high
- FAO says number of hungry people increased by about 50 million in 2007 as a result of high food prices
- Farkas Closes Deal to Buy Centerline
- Farkas Looks to Write New Chapter
- FÁS says Irish unemployment could exceed 8% by the end of 2009; Further downturn is likely in 2010
- FÁS/ESRI says 250,000 new Irish jobs will be created jobs by 2015 resulting in employment being 80,000 below 2008 level - - based on optimistic global recovery scenario
- Fashionable Co-existence
- FBD Holdings expects Irish insurance premiums to rise this year
- FBD Holdings to post operating profits in both underwriting and non-underwriting businesses in 2009
- FBD Insurance reports loss of €5.2m in H1 2008
- FBI Probes Home-Buying Incentives
- FDIC and Developer Slug It Out
- FDIC Faces Mortgage Mess
- FDIC Unveils IndyMac Plan
- Fears about $700bn financial rescue plan trigger biggest one-day percentage drop of Dollar against the Euro; Biggest one-day rise in oil price to $120 a barrel - intra-day 5 day rise at 44%
- Fears of New Bubble as Cash Pours In
- Fed Aid Sets Off a Rush to Refinance
- Fed Approves Mortgage Rules
- Fed Frets Over Commercial Real Estate
- Fed Grapples With Extended Stay
- Fed to Revise Terms for TALF Loans
- Fed's Beige Book indicates US recession is easing
- Federal Reserve "beige book" report says US economy continued to weaken in April and May: Recession is easing in many parts of the country
- Federal Reserve cuts benchmark interest rate to the lowest level in its 94-year history - 0% to 0.25%
- Federal Reserve cuts key benchmark interest rate from 2.25% to 2.0% - a reduction of 3.25% since September 2007
- Federal Reserve keeps interest rates near zero for at least six months
- Federal Reserve officials see a stronger US economy but a recovery "restrained"
- Federal Reserve reports US industrial production fell again in May; Capacity utilization declined to 68.3% - - lowest since at least 1967
- Federal Reserve says US economic recovery has begun; Keeps interest rate on hold and trillion-plus dollar supports intact
- Federal Reserve says US economic recovery is spreading to most parts of the country
- Federal Reserve says US economy continues to stabilize; Recovery will remain subdued
- Federal Reserve staff project moderate recovery in US economic activity over the next two years; Unemployment will remain high
- Federal Reserve stuns markets with plan to buy over $1 trillion in securities to aid US economy
- Federal Reserve's Beige Book and weak US economic data confirm fears of steep slump
- Federal Reserve's Beige Book says US economic activity was modest in June and first half of July
- Feeling Roomy, J.P. Morgan Shops Its Space
- Feldman's End Game
- Feuding Parties, Fighting No More
- Fewer Americans Are Relocating
- FHA Chief Navigates an Unfamiliar Path
- FHA Helps Prop Up Housing Market
- FHA Raises Premiums for Home Loans
- FHA Seeks to Ban Seller-Assisted Payments
- FHA Suspends Taylor Bean
- FHLB Woes Ripple Across Housing Projects
- Fianna Fáil minister says his department should be abolished; Ireland in the Age of the Spoilsmen
- Fianna Fáil senators lobbied for increased wages/ pensions for councillor "constituents"
- Fiat tops European Eco League with lowest CO2 Emissions in 2007; Top six car manufacturers now below 150 grams per kilometer
- Final PMI data confirm rate of deterioration of Eurozone’s manufacturing economy continued to gather pace in February
- Finalist for Citi Property Portfolio: Its Architect
- Finance Bill 2010: Provisions to increase the attractiveness of Ireland as a location for investment and transfer pricing changes for multinationals included
- FINANCE Irish Accountancy Survey 2008: Fee income of the twenty largest practices up by 11.0% in the past year - down from 19.6% in 2006/7
- FINANCE Irish Accountancy Survey 2008: Fee income of the twenty largest practices up by 11.0% in the past year - down from 19.6% in 2006/7
- Financial crisis accelerates shift of power in global banking system; Market cap of top 25 banks still higher than 2004
- Financial crisis triggers fall in foreign direct investment to/from developed countries; Set to rise in 2010; FDI inflows to Ireland turned negative in 2008
- Financial Crisis: IMF says US households more vulnerable to equity price shocks - - UK and Eurozone households to house price shocks
- Financial position of Irish households worsened last year for the first time since 2002; SSIAs with a value of about €10 billion matured in 2007
- Financial Regulation: IMF says society must stand with supervisors in role as naysayers in times of exuberance
- Financial Regulation: IMF says society must stand with supervisors in role as naysayers in times of exuberance
- Financial Regulator fines Irish Life & Permanent €600,000; Does not disclose reason
- Financial Regulator fines Irish Nationwide Building Society €50,000 in respect of email issued by the son of the Chief Executive
- Financial Regulator issues report on directors' loans procedures at six Irish financial institutions covered by the State Guarantee Scheme
- Financial Regulator says 28,603 Irish mortgage accounts were in arrears for more than 90 days at the end of 2009; 19,185 in arrears for more than 6 months
- Financial Regulator says 40% of Irish Consumers plan to use credit this Christmas
- Financial Regulator says Irish Motor Insurance claim costs fell in 2006
- Financial Regulator says many Irish consumers are unclear about Irish financial services complaint procedures
- Financial Regulator steps up supervision of six State-guaranteed Irish banks; Authorised officers assigned on-site; New business plans requested
- Financial Regulator to apply to High Court for approval of seizure of control of Quinn Insurance Limited from Quinn Group
- Financial Regulator to set new rules for bank directors; More mortgage rate hikes likely; Rapid wind-up of Anglo "prohibitively expensive"
- Financial Regulator's High Court application for control of Quinn Insurance has been adjourned
- Financial Services Ombudsman criticises “unwarranted and unsolicited” moves by Irish banks to move people off low-rate tracker mortgages
- Financial Services Ombudsman reports complaints to his office rose 15% in 2007
- Financier's Death Hints at Trouble for Lenders
- Financing Real Estate Development Projects
- Financing Real Estate Development Projects
- Finding Foreclosures, Screening Deadbeats
- Fine Gael announces Irish small business "rescue plan"; Coughlan/Hanafin announce Government Work Placement /Short Time Work Training Programmes
- Finfacts achieved record traffic in September - a month dominated by financial turmoil
- Finfacts achieves record traffic in October 2008 - - another month dominated by global financial turmoil
- Firms See Future in Smart Homes
- Firms See Future in Smart Homes
- First Life Sciences Fund established under the Enterprise Ireland Seed and Venture Capital Scheme 2007-2012; €75 million raised
- First quarter 2010 US GDP growth would have been 0% absent temporary boosting factors
- First Quarter of 2010 indicates some weakening in US home prices according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices
- First rise in Irish manufacturing output for 21 months in November
- First-Time Home Buyers' Few Options
- Five lessons from the financial crisis
- Five million young people - - 15 to 24 year olds - - unemployed in the EU27 in Q1 2009; Irish unemployment rate at 21%; Spain at 34%
- Five themes for the global economy in 2010; Recovery in advanced economies will be creditless and jobless
- Flagpole Builder Hits New Heights
- Flash Eurozone Composite Output Index falls for third month running in August: Rate of decline fell slightly; Price pressures ease
- Flash Eurozone Manufacturing and Services PMI: Growth slows for second month running: Pace sufficient to drive rise in employment
- Flash Eurozone PMI Composite Output Index fell to 51.1 in May; Modest rise in private sector economic output; Rate of growth was weakest since July 2003
- Flash Eurozone PMI shows improvement again in July driven by slowing in rate of contraction of manufacturing output
- Flipping Sides
- Florida Files Countrywide Lawsuit
- Florida for Sale!
- Flush German Funds Move In
- Flush REITs Have Loads of Cash, Little to Spend It On
- Flush REITs See Little Cause to Buy
- Focus now on applying stimulus IMF says - - ahead of G-7 meeting of advanced countries
- Focus of Eurozone competitiveness should be on more than prices and costs
- Foes and Friends in Trump Bankruptcy
- Fontainebleau Sues Over Financing
- Food prices have pushed UK farmland prices to record highs; Lifestyle buyers retreat because of the credit crunch
- Food prices have pushed UK farmland prices to record highs; Lifestyle buyers retreat because of the credit crunch
- Footfall Index illustrates "stark predicament" facing Irish retail sector
- For 'House' of Morgan, the Future Is Unclear
- For a Lehman Star, a Reversal of Fortune
- For Canary Wharf, Bank Crisis Hits Home
- For CMBS, 'Worst Is Yet to Come'
- For Farallon, a $1.5 Billion Workout
- For iStar, Ratings Now an Issue
- For Mortgages Underwater, Help Swims In
- For REITs, 2009 Is Year of Survival
- For Sale in Europe: Government Property
- For Sale: AIG's Home Base in Japan
- For Some REITs, Payout Date Looms
- For the past year US home prices have moved sideways according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices; Detroit prices are back to 1994 levels
- For WTC Site, Delays Prove Costly
- Ford Motor Co. returned to profitability in its second quarter
- Ford's Home Weathers Change
- Ford's Vail Retreat Listed at $14.9 Million
- Foreclosed But Not Forgotten
- Foreclosures Increase Again
- Foreclosures Prompt Schools to Get Tough
- Foreclosures Rise 48% in May
- Foreign Buyers Aren't Rushing In
- Foreign Cash Boosts Hong Kong Assets
- Foreign Cue
- Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to and from developed countries contracted by more than 40% in 2009
- Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) surged 30% in 2007; Ireland 16th highest for inward investment; Number of Irish greenfield projects fell 22%; Outward Irish investment rose by more than 30%
- Foreign direct investment - - FDI - - in Ireland dropped in 2009
- Foreign purchases of US Treasury securities rose in June; Ireland 13th biggest holder at $46.3bn
- Foreign-owned firms responsible for 89% of Irish tradable goods and services exports in 2008; Jobs in sector down 44,000 since 2000
- Forest City Puts a Halt To New Work
- Forget Inflation - Prof Hans-Werner Sinn
- Forget the Teardown, The 'Unbuild' Is Eco-Friendly But More Costly
- Former Anglo Irish Bank director resigns from Dublin Airport Authority; Government warns of “outflow of funds” from the Irish economy
- Former IMF chief economist Michael Mussa says global growth will reach 4.2% in 2010
- Fortis Sues Lender Kennedy in Debt Case
- Fortress Acquires Swig Project
- Fortress Looks for the Bottom, Again
- Fortress Swoops Up New York Condo
- Foster Architecture Firm to Lay Off 300
- Foundations to be laid for Dublin's National Convention Centre, Dublin – Ireland’s first carbon neutral building
- Four decades after men from Earth first landed on the moon - - July 20, 1969
- Four Seasons Agrees to Cost Cuts
- Four Seasons Maui Delinquent on Mortgage
- Four Star Pizza announces 200 new Irish jobs as recession bites
- Foxconn - - world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer - - to raise wages in China by 20% after suicide spike
- France to give €10.5bn to its six biggest banks even though they are “very well capitalised”
- Freddie Aims to Slow Foreclosures
- Freddie Considers Major Stock Sale
- Freddie HR Chief's Big Payday
- Freddie Hunts for Cash
- Freddie Mac to Unveil Lenders' Pact
- Freddie Moves Toward Stock Sale
- Freddie Tightens Mortgage Buying
- Freddie, Fannie Ills Leave Experts at Loss
- Free Zone, Las Vegas Real Estate Sale
- Freightquote to locate its Multilingual European HQ in Dublin and create 100 jobs
- French and German governments raise their economic growth forecasts for 2010
- French business leaders reported in April that export demand remains high; Consumer confidence fell
- French consumer confidence fell to a record low in May
- French consumer price index rose at annual rate of 3.7% in May - the highest since 1996
- French consumer price index rose at annual rate of 3.7% in May - the highest since 1996
- French Finance Minister puts EU corporation tax proposal on ice
- French insurance group AXA Global Distributors to create 200 'high value' jobs in Dublin over the next 3 years
- French Presidency gets agreement for minor reform of CAP farmers' subsidies
- French President Sarkozy rules out austerity in historic address to parliament at the Château of Versailles
- French Property Investment Picks Up
- Fresh Powder for Ski Towns
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- Friends First announces plan to cut 147 Irish jobs
- Friends First announces plan to cut 147 Irish jobs
- Friends Provident agrees to sell itself to buyout firm Resolution
- From Barn Raisings to Home Building
- From Russia -- With Cash
- Frustrated With Finding Foreclosed Homes
- FT European Finance Minister of 2009: France's Christine Lagarde takes top prize; Ireland's Brian Lenihan in last place
- Fund managers do not expect Federal Reserve to raise interest rates until H2 2010; Commodities most popular in four years
- Fund managers scale back economic recovery hopes; Re-evaluation of EU and China risk; Pullback from European bank shares
- Fund managers shifting their equity focus away from Europe to US and Japan; European equity markets seen as “cheap” by one-third of polled managers
- Fund managers' survey finds investor confidence eroded but fears over euro have peaked
- Further severe contraction of private sector output across the Eurozone in January
- Future of Fannie, Freddie Debated
- Fyffes 2008 profit before tax after adjustments falls to €128,000 from €13.2 million
- Fyffes acquires pineapple plantation In Panama
- Fyffes forecasts low double digit percentage increase adjusted earnings per share despite cost inflation
- Fyffes reports pre-tax profits of €18.6m in H1 2009 -- an increase of 18.6%
- Fyffes reports strong H1 2008 pre-tax profits boosted by exceptional gain arising from the DCC insider trading case
- G-20 countries agree to take “whatever further actions are necessary” to counter worst financial crisis since Great Depression
- G-20 Finance Ministers pledge "sustained effort necessary to restore growth"; No additional spending promised
- G-20 finance officials commit to economic stimulus measures until recovery takes hold; UK retreats from "Tobin tax" proposal
- G-20 finance officials meet to review plans for financial regulation and to discuss emerging global recovery
- G-20 leaders agree to provide $1 trillion in funding to “fight back” against the global recession
- G-20 leaders commit to help world economy through economic crisis
- G-20 Meeting London: World Bank says 2009 will be year of firsts; first global GDP decline since World War II; first trade decline of this size in 80 years; first time that recovery must be global
- G-20 Pittsburgh Summit: Europe and US rift on bank capital; IMF says banking crises leave “long-lasting scars”
- G-20 Pittsburgh Summit: European Union leaders seek Group of 20 agreement on binding rules to curb bank bonuses
- G-20 Pittsburgh Summit: Leaders move towards agreement on coordination of economic policies, restrictions on banker pay and financial regulation
- G-20 Pittsburgh Summit: World Bank says Low-Income Countries face long recovery
- G-20 Summit: "We are within a few hours...of agreeing upon a global plan for economic recovery and reform" Gordon Brown claims
- G-20 Summit: Choice between fiscal tightening and more stimulus measures to bolster fragile recovery in the rich world
- G-20 Summit: Does the developing world hold the key to building a stronger global economy?
- G-20 Summit: Leaders agree on timetable for cutting their deficits; Support higher capital demands for banks
- G-20: IMF says the difference between good and bad global policy is 60 million jobs
- G-7 finance ministers and central bankers say full effect of individual rescue packages will “build over time”
- G-8 finance ministers say global economy appears to be bottoming; German finance minister pours cold water on green shoots' optimism
- G-8 Summit: Agreements on trade deal by 2010; Climate change aspiration with emerging economies and $15bn to spur food production in poorer countries
- G8 leaders confirm 50% reduction of global greenhouse emissions by 2050 - Targets for 32-year time horizons the easy part; Five big emerging economies say G8 countries should assume most of the burden of reducing emissions
- G8 Summit Japan: World Bank President to Group of Eight: ‘World entering a Danger Zone’ because of high food and oil prices
- Galmoy Mines is to close by 2011 - 221 jobs will be lost
- Gambling Magnate Bets on New Casino
- Gap between rich and poor has grown in more than three-quarters of OECD countries over the past two decades
- Gartner highlights 27 technologies in the 2008 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies; UK media academic terms the hype surrounding Web 2.0 innovations such as social networking and the development of internet television as "Bollocks 2.0"
- GDP in the OECD area fell by a record 2.1% in the first quarter of 2009; Recovery could begin at the end of this year
- GE Capital to Halve Commercial Real Estate
- GE chief attacks "meanness and greed'; Richest made most mistakes with least accountability; Bottom 25% of Americans poorer than 25 years ago
- GE Chief Immelt says US economy is in worst shape since 1970's; US foreign affiliate earnings rise to record 37% of total corporate earnings
- GE Energy acquires Northern Ireland firm Kelman to further GE Energy’s “Smart Grid” capabilities with utilities
- GE Money's Irish Used Car Index confirms that prices for second hand cars are declining
- GE to Shed Light on Its Properties
- GE to Shed Light on Its Properties
- GE's Commercial Properties Turn Sour
- Gehry Lays Off Staff
- Geithner to announce US toxic asset plan for American banks with price tag of up to $1 trillion
- General Electric loses coveted triple-A credit rating which it held for 50 years
- General Electric to restructure finance division; $2bn in cost cuts from asset sales and redundancies
- General Growth Avoids Chapter 11
- General Growth Chief Exits
- General Growth Considers Buyout Bid From Simon
- General Growth Debt Bet Pays Off
- General Growth Executives Sell Shares
- General Growth Files Bankruptcy Plan
- General Growth Gets 24-Hour Loan Extension
- General Growth Gets More Time to Pay Debt
- General Growth Gets Some Help
- General Growth in Mortgage Pact
- General Growth Lands Funds for Bankruptcy Exit
- General Growth Lines Up More Capital
- General Growth Misses Payment Date
- General Growth Move Rattles Malls' Investors
- General Growth Offer Has Deadline
- General Growth Offer Has Deadline
- General Growth Official Sells Shares
- General Growth Postpones Earnings
- General Growth Posts Drop in Key Measures
- General Growth REIT Settles Suit
- General Growth Restructuring OK'd
- General Growth Switches Counsel
- General Growth Wins Approval to Restructure Contentious Loan
- General Growth Wins Key Extension
- General Growth Wins Plan Extension
- General Growth Wrestles With Its Debt
- General Growth's Free Fall
- General Motors - - for 77 years the world's biggest car manufacturer - - files for bankruptcy
- General Motors says Chevrolet Volt expected to achieve city fuel economy of at least 230 miles per gallon
- General's Lenders Threaten to Circumvent Citi
- Geoghegan-Quinn provides nearly €6.4bn in EU research/ innovation grants; 16,000 participants including 3,000 SMEs, will receive funding
- Geography matters and the BRIC countries
- George Lee and the job he hated
- German ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment dipped in July; Current situation positive - - expectations drop
- German and French governments launch plans for rescue of their their banking sectors
- German annual consumer prices posted a zero change in the year to August 2009
- German business confidence dipped slightly in May; Economic recovery in Germany is robust
- German business confidence dipped slightly in May; Economic recovery in Germany is robust
- German business confidence falls to a 26-year low in March
- German Business Confidence in December lowest since 1982
- German business confidence jumped in March boosted by a weaker euro and better weather improving consumer spending and construction
- German business confidence plunged to the lowest level in 16 years in November
- German business confidence rose from a 26-year low in April
- German business confidence rose to 17-month high in December
- German business confidence rose to a 13-month high in October; Economic recovery continues hesitantly
- German business confidence rose to a two-year high in April boosted by export demand and warmer weather
- German business confidence rose to an 18-month high in January
- German business confidence rose to two-year high in June boosted by impact on exports from euro’s fall/ global recovery
- German business confidence slipped in February as icy temperatures and snow hit construction and retailing
- German car exports rose by 51% in March; domestic sales fell after end of the public scrappage scheme
- German car giant Volkswagen reports strong results for first nine months of 2008 despite the slowing global economy
- German Chancellor Merkel's Cabinet agrees on launch of €100-billion corporate aid fund to help struggling firms
- German consumer climate in October stabilised despite financial crisis
- German consumer climate marks a cautious start to the New Year
- German consumer climate remains robust in April
- German consumer climate rises in June; Despite economic crisis consumers are in mood to buy
- German consumer climate stable despite austerity package discussions
- German consumer climate survey for June shows high prices dampening the consumer mood
- German consumer climate virtually stable but economic expectations have fallen sharply
- German consumer confidence continued to improve in July
- German consumer confidence experienced a slight decline in October
- German consumer confidence index shows further improvement
- German consumer confidence is improving with the arrival of Spring weather
- German consumer confidence remained virtually unchanged in March despite a flood of negative economic news
- German consumer confidence rose for the fifth straight month in August
- German consumer confidence rose for the fifth straight month in August
- German consumer confidence rose sharply in April
- German consumer confidence unexpectedly rose in September as fall in energy prices brightened outlook
- German consumer sentiment remained stable in May; Test ahead in coming months with anticipated rise in unemployment; Q 1 2009 GDP decline confirmed at 3.8%
- German consumers are in good mood in July
- German corporatism at its worst: Market order under attack - - Prof. Hans-Werner Sinn
- German Credit Constraint Indicator remains almost unchanged; Retail sales fall in December
- German discount retailer Aldi plans to open 35 new Irish stores as it gains market share in recession times
- German economic growth accelerated to the fastest rate in 12 years in the first quarter; GDP rose by 1.5%; Annual rise was 2.6%
- German economic sentiment fell in February
- German Economic Sentiment indicator at highest level since April 2006
- German Economic Sentiment Indicator fell slightly in November; Start-ups lowest since German reunification in 1991
- German economy entered recession in the third quarter for first time since 1996
- German economy grew by 1.3% in 2008
- German economy grows 0.2% in Q1 2010; France's economy expands 0.1%; Italy's economy grows by 0.5%
- German economy is forecast to contract in 2009, by the biggest margin since 1949
- German economy shrank in 2009 for the first time in six years; GDP fell 5% - - highest since 1945
- German economy shrank in the second quarter of 2008; Consumer price index rose 3.3% in July 2008 - a 15 year high
- German employment will increase by 80,000 in 2010 and by 120,000 in 2011; Budget deficit to fall to 3.4% of GDP next year
- German export intensive electrical engineering industry in long-term will depend on growing demand from Asia’s emerging markets
- German exports and imports fell in April; Exports ex-the EU rose 28.6%; Manufacturing orders rose sharply
- German exports fell 1.8% in August; Down 20% in 12-month period
- German exports fell 23.1% in the year to February 2009
- German exports fell in March; Monthly trade balance narrows to €16.7 billion
- German exports fell in October; In Q2 2008, Germany had the smallest increase in labour costs in Europe
- German exports fell the most in five years in the year to August; German manufacturing turnover rises
- German exports forecast to rise in coming months; ECB official says recovery in the Eurozone will only be consolidated with reforms
- German exports in March 2010 rose 23.3% on March 2009; Exports up 10% in month - - imports rise 11%
- German exports in November plunged as global recession took hold and goods demand outside the EU fell 7.8%
- German exports increased by 9.2% and imports by 14.8% in month of May 2010; Exports up by 28.8% and imports by 34.3% compared with May 2009
- German exports increased 4.2% in June and were up 7.9% in the year; Exports outside the EU rose 11.7% in year to June
- German exports plunged 20.7% in year to January - Ex-EU exports fell 24.5%; Annual inflation rose 1% in February
- German exports plunged by 28.7% in year to April 2009; Labour costs per hour worked rise 5.8% in year to March - - highest since at least 1997
- German exports rose 0.7% in March; Down 15.8% in 12-month period
- German exports rose 2.5% in year to May - down 3.2% in month
- German exports rose 3.8% in the month in September
- German exports rose 5.1% in month of February -- boosted by demand from Emerging Markets; Imports inched up 0.2%
- German exports rose 7% in June - - - the most in almost three years; Growth may have resumed in current quarter
- German exports rose again in July - - up 2.3% in month; Imports remained unchanged; Exports down 18.7% in 12-month period compared with 22.3% in June
- German exports rose by 13.9% in the year to April; Exports to countries outside the EU increased 18.4%
- German exports rose in May by 0.3% - - down 24.5% in 12-month period compared with 28.7% in April; Annual consumer prices rose 0.1% in June
- German exports rose in November 2009; China overtakes Germany as the world's top goods exporter
- German exports rose in October for a second straight month
- German exports to China grew 7% in 2009 as total exports fell 18.4%
- German factory order fell for the first time in eight months in October on weak export demand
- German firms faced slight tightening of the credit market in August
- German firms report lending continues to be restrictive
- German firms report slight improvement in the bank credit situation in June
- German Firms Scour U.S. for Deals
- German food industry shrugging off recession blues; May post increase in output in 2009
- German GDP falls 3.8% in first quarter of 2009 - - the steepest contraction since at least 1970; Down 6.7% in 12-month period
- German GDP plunged in the fourth quarter of 2008
- German government agrees on revised €50 billion bailout of lender Hypo Real Estate; Dublin unit Depfa triggered liquidity crisis
- German government report shows one in every eight residents of Germany lives at or below the poverty-line - €781 a month after tax
- German government revises up forecast of 2010 economic growth to 1.4%; Deutsche Bank says growth of over 2% is likely
- German government says economy will be on brink of recession in 2009
- German housing completions in 2009 fell to lowest level in at least 50 years
- German Ifo business climate index dropped to 26-year low in February
- German Ifo Business Climate Index falls to five-year low in October
- German Ifo Business Climate Index falls to lowest level since September 2005; Results suggest economic upswing coming to an end
- German Ifo Business Climate Index fell in April; Confidence in Manufacturing and Service sectors declined
- German Ifo Business Climate Index fell sharply in June
- German Ifo Business Climate Index has again fallen in September
- German Ifo Business Climate Index has again fallen in September
- German Ifo Business Climate Index improves in May; Dampening of economic activity in Germany following the very good first quarter should be moderate
- German Ifo Business Climate Index unexpectedly rises in January - first gain in eight months
- German Ifo Business Climate Index worsens again in August; Current situation is still seen as slightly positive
- German Ifo Business Climate indicator rose to a 15-month high in November
- German Ifo business confidence index rose for a second month in May; It fell to a 26-year low in March
- German Ifo business confidence index rose for third straight month in June signalling easing of recession
- German Ifo business confidence index rose to a 12-month high in September
- German Ifo business confidence indicator improved again in August
- German Ifo Institute for Economic Research and Professor Hans-Werner Sinn - Series of articles
- German Ifo Institute: Economic stimulus packages should heed long-term effects beyond the crisis
- German Ifo Institute’s business confidence index for July at highest since October 2008
- German import prices jumped 8.9% in June - the highest rate since November 2000
- German Indicator of Economic Sentiment increases sharply in August
- German industrial orders confirm recovery trend
- German industrial output surged the most in 16 years in May
- German industrial production fell in May; France says action is required in response to slowing Eurozone growth
- German investor confidence index slightly declined in July
- German investor confidence jumped in April
- German investor confidence rose to a 3-year high in June
- German investor confidence was stable in March; Eonomic analysts expect the economy to slowly recover in coming months
- German manufacturing industry has recovered strongly from recession but still 17% below historical peak
- German manufacturing orders surged in March signaling rate of Germany’s recovery is gathering speed
- German merchandise exports fell 18.4% in 2009; Year marked biggest drop in trade since 1950 - - China becoming the world's top exporter; Exports up 3% in December
- German producer /factory gate prices rose to annual rate of 6% in May
- German Producer Prices rose at annual rate of 5.2% in April 2008 up from 4.2% in March
- German producer prices rose at the fastest rate in 26 years in June
- German research shows cultural diversity generates knowledge-based start-ups
- German retail sales fell in November signalling a fragile recovery
- German State Banks and a Process of Creative Destruction
- German unemployment fell in October below 3 million for the first time in 16 years; 450,000 jobs added in year to September
- German unemployment rose in January; International Labour Organisation says the global recession could result in more than 50 million job losses
- German wholesale prices increase 8.1% in year to May 2008 - a 26-year high
- German ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment - Expectations improve
- German ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment - Expectations on the upswing in February
- German ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment fell slightly in October
- German ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment improved slightly in March but remains at low level
- German ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment in October hit by financial turmoil; Economics Institutes say Economy on brink of recession
- German ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment increased in November
- German ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment stabilized in May 2008
- German ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment stabilized in May 2008
- Germans Scour U.S. for bargains
- Germany - - the world’s biggest exporter to become the consumer of last resort?
- Germany and Denmark to guarantee all private bank deposits; UK working on "big steps" to aid banks in return for public equity stakes; Iceland scrambling to avoid meltdown
- Germany and France agree to support a bank tax
- Germany and France to express support for Greece at EU summit; Rescue plan work-in-progress
- Germany and Spain call for publication of the results of “stress tests” of banks
- Germany and sustainable domestic demand
- Germany considering plan with Eurozone partners to provide Greece and other debt-laden members with loan guarantees
- Germany consumer confidence rises again in September
- Germany faces cuts to fund "the biggest 'all-in' in the history of poker"
- Germany faces the prospect of some change
- Germany gives crucial backing for the creation of a "European Monetary Fund" that would act like the IMF in supporting Eurozone countries
- Germany launches second economic stimulus package; Spain joins Ireland and Greece on Standard & Poor's credit watch list
- Germany may reclaim mantle of world's top goods exporting nation in 2010
- Germany planning annual cuts and tax hikes of €10bn; France may raise retirement age from 60
- Germany poised for a full-year recovery in 2010
- Germany set for four more years of the impressive Angela Merkel
- Germany under pressure to agree a bail-out for Greece; Trichet signals no easy terms; Bundesbank chief says Germany’s export-dependence will fall
- Germany wastes enormous growth potential due to inadequate education; Every fifth 15-year-old does not get beyond elementary school
- Germany's annual road deaths lowest since 1950; Positive impact of ban on alcohol for new drivers; Irish publicans lobbying against lowering alcohol drink-drive limit
- Germany's Bundesbank says slowing growth may not be sufficient to reduce inflation in the Eurozone; Region's trade deficit expanded in June
- Germany's consumer price index measure of annual inflation rose to 3.0% in May 2008; Food prices were stable in month
- Germany's economic institutes say economy will shrink 6% this year; Industrialised economies will contract drastically by 4.2%; World trade to plunge 15%
- Germany's Economics Ministry says second quarter was strong period of economic growth
- Germany's export recovery prevented economy from contracting in Q4 of 2009; Budget deficit ratio in 2009 was 3.3% of GDP
- Germany's Food & Beverage sector star of crisis -- exports up 15% in 2008; Good news continues
- Germany's Ifo institute raises German economic outlook; Eurozone GDP to grow 1% in 2010, 0.9% in 2011
- Germany’s economy will contract 2.2% in 2009 and 0.2% in 2010; Ifo says the world economy is experiencing a massive downturn
- Germany’s jobs miracle: Short-time work, flexible contracts and healthy companies; Unemployment rose only 200,000 from October 2008 low
- German manufacturing sector turnover and industrial output grew in January despite the severe weather
- GetItKeepIt.com among winners of 2009 annual Eircom €100,000 Web Innovation Fund
- Ginnie Mae's New Role Spurs Concerns
- Glanbia abandons goal to become world class food company; Sells Irish dairy and agri-businesses
- Glanbia announces acquisition of Illinois based Optimum Nutrition - a manufacturer of nutritional supplements for the sports sector - for $315 million
- Glanbia expects to deliver a strong first half
- Glanbia reports 19% fall in 2009 pre-tax profits; Majority shareholder is interested in acquiring Glanbia's Irish dairy operations
- Glanbia reports 30.5% rise in HI 2008 pre-tax profit
- Glanbia reports good first half 2008 performance overall
- Glanbia reports pre-tax 2008 profit rise of 21% before exceptional items
- Glanbia reports pre-tax profits, before exceptionals fell 28%
- Glanbia says H1 2009 will be "significantly behind" 2008 - - a time of global boom in food commodity prices
- Glanbia says most business units performed well in 2008
- GlaxoSmithKline says simultaneous vaccination against seasonal and pandemic flu provides protection
- GlaxoSmithKline to close Stiefel Laboratories in Sligo with loss of 250 jobs
- Glimcher Shops Its Malls
- Glitz Masks Woes for Trump SoHo
- Global air traffic falls 2.4% in April - - Volcano dents recovery
- Global air transport: The worst is over
- Global airline industry will lose US$5.2 billion in 2008 - Slowing demand and high oil to blame
- Global bank lending fell the most in more than 30 years in Q2 2008; German banks have loans of $240 billion to Irish-based banks
- Global Banking Crisis: Stuffing the goose strategy - - Prof Hans-Werner Sinn
- Global business confidence surges - - in particular in US and BRIC countries
- Global car industry: The calm before the next storm
- Global carbon market market doubled to an estimated value of more than $126 billion in 2008
- Global carbon trading market grew to $64 billion in 2007
- Global CEOs want investors to act to create sustainability “tipping point”
- Global chip giant Intel to pay rival Advanced Micro Devices $1.25 billion to end all antitrust and patent suits
- Global CMOs must remake marketing operations, counsels a new Economist Intelligence Unit report
- Global Commercial Property Survey Q2 2009: Rents fall sharply; Surveyors in Italy, Spain and Ireland remain downbeat on outlook
- Global Competitiveness Report 2008-2009; United States tops rankings; Ireland retains 22nd place
- Global Competitiveness Report 2009-2010: Switzerland, US, Singapore, Sweden and Denmark lead; Ireland slips to 25th ranking behind Malaysia
- Global corporate FDI plans on hold for the next two years
- Global Crisis Douses Hawaii Tourism
- Global crisis will stall globalisation says Economist Intelligence Unit; Ireland slips 5 places in Business Environment Rankings - - Finland, Singapore, Canada in lead
- Global Direct Commercial Property - H1 2008 volumes fall 41% year-over-year; Cross-border transactions rise to 27% of United States trades
- Global economic confidence has halved in the two years since April 2007; OECD says 1 in 10 workers in its 30 member countries will be without a job in 2010
- Global economic growth in 2011 is forecast to be lower than 2010; Trichet says Europe is not facing double-dip recession
- Global Economic Outlook: Recovery in different gears
- Global Economic Prospects 2010: World Bank says faster fiscal tightening in rich countries would help developing countries in medium term
- Global Economic Prospects 2010: World Bank says recovery will slow as impact of fiscal stimulus wanes; Says crisis fallout will impact finance and growth over next 10 years
- Global Economic Prospects: V-shaped recovery underway; Growth of 4.5% in 2010 forecast
- Global economic recovery remains strong in 2010 but the risks are mounting for 2011
- Global economic slowdown must be viewed as an opportunity, not a distraction from efforts to mitigate climate change - IEA
- Global Economic Symposium: German Kiel Institute - - A 3-point program for combating the Financial Crisis and other remedies for global challenges
- Global economic turmoil remains elevated in advance of G-20 Washington summit
- Global Economics: The Return of Debtflation? US public debt to GDP to increase to 87% by 2020; A case for higher inflation?
- Global Economy 2010: Morgan Stanley forecasts advanced economies to grow 2%; Emerging economies 6.5%; BofA Merrill Lynch expects China's GDP to rise 10.1%
- Global economy expanded in March at fastest pace since July 2007 - - just before the onset of the international credit crunch
- Global economy is likely to recover in 2010 but economic growth may remain sluggish for several years
- Global economy may be close to a "tipping point" says the Bank for International Settlements - the banker for central banks
- Global economy poised for slower growth after surprisingly strong rebound; German GDP forecast at 2.1% in 2010 and 1.2% in 2011
- Global Economy Prize goes to Jeffrey Sachs, Mary Robinson, Baba Kalyani and Sunil Bharti Mittal
- Global economy shows signs of rising recession risks: Baltic Dry Index has tumbled 37% since May
- Global economy to continue to recover into early 2010 but outlook still highly uncertain says Economist Intelligence Unit
- Global Economy: Double-dip discounted despite drumbeat of doomsayers
- Global Economy: Germany Kiel Institute says bottom of output decline reached; Recovery to be modest by historical standards
- Global Economy: Insiders selling US shares as "green shoots" optimism wilts; Morgan Stanley says growth has returned but after deepest recession expect the weakest recovery
- Global Economy: Interest rate hikes to come before debt reduction in most countries; Growth in major economies may surprise to the upside over the next few quarters
- Global Economy: Nouriel Roubini - - America's Dr. Doom - - says tentative green shoots may well be overrun by yellow weeds
- Global Economy: U, V, W – Alphabet soup spells out economic developments but be skeptical of the sunshine wafflers
- Global Economy: US savings rate rises from close to zero in 2007 as housing wealth falls - bad news for Emerging Economies
- Global Economy: World Bank increases forecast of the economic slump in 2009
- Global Employment Outlook Survey: Sluggish hiring but more employers planning to keep existing staff; Most Irish employers expect no change in hiring in Quarter 3 2009
- Global Entrepreneurship Ireland 2008: Coughlan claims Ireland at heart an entrepreneurial nation and to fore in Europe; No mention of exports in 98-page report
- Global Equity Markets: Iceland and Ireland head annual losses in September; Hedge Funds outperformed equities but had worst month since August 1998
- Global Finance Crisis: Plugging equity leaks - A painful decade of stagnation for America lies ahead
- Global finance ministers urge IMF to ensure an “orderly and co-operative exit” from fiscal and monetary stimulus
- Global Financial Centres Index 2009: London, New York and Singapore head rankings; Dublin moves up to 10th place
- Global financial crisis intensified on Monday; Iceland warns of risk of national bankruptcy; French bank BNP Paribas set to become Eurozone's biggest
- Global financial crisis slashed value of financial assets worldwide by massive $50 trillion in 2008 - - the equivalent of annual global GDP
- Global Financial Crisis: Warnings of danger from 2001 and a Fed all bark but no bite - with monumental consequences
- Global Financial Crisis: Barometers of stress hit highs on fears of deep recession; Citi plunges 26%
- Global Financial Crisis: Bush to host world summit on the financial crisis
- Global Financial Crisis: Eurozone leaders agree on sweeping rescue plan; France, Germany, Italy and other countries will announce national measures Monday
- Global Financial Crisis: Fears that bank rescues are too late to avert global recession; Wall Street in biggest crash since Black Monday in 1987
- Global Financial Crisis: IMF welcomes Eurozone Plan to combat crisis; US rescue plan should be implemented without delay
- Global Financial Crisis: The latest scare is deflation and the experience of Japan's lost decade has policymakers worried
- Global Financial Crisis: UK and Spain move to protect their banks; US financial stocks slump to lowest level since 1997 - Bank of America tumbles 26%
- Global Financial Crisis: Urgent need for more transparency from Irish banks
- Global financial sector credit crisis losses near $1,000bn; Paulson abandons toxic assets plan; Consumer credit markets "ground to a halt"
- Global financial stability improves but IMF sees fresh challenges; Japan warned on rising public debt
- Global Financial Stability Report: IMF says losses on US subprime assets/securities will total $1.45 trillion - more than 50% above April estimate; Financial firms face reducing assets, raising capital and implementing new business models
- Global Financial Stability Update: IMF says PIIGS countries in Eurozone will have to refinance €300bn in maturing bonds in H2 2010
- Global Food Crisis Summit: European leaders to offer pieties but resist any change in protections from an era of food mountains and wine lakes
- Global Food Crisis Summit: FAO says world only needs $30 billion a year to eradicate the scourge of hunger; OECD countries spent $372 billion in 2006 alone to support their agriculture
- Global Food Crisis Summit: Rich country subsidies/protections for agriculture, biofuels and the opposition of well-fed Europeans to GM foods, remain unresolved
- Global Food Crisis: Biodiversity to curb world's food insecurity - Just twelve crops and fourteen animal species now provide most of the world’s food
- Global Food Crisis: Food Prices expected to remain high for the next 10 years
- Global Food Crisis: France wants extension of agriculture protections to Africa and Latin America; Recipe for empowering rich elites while farmers would lose access to international markets
- Global Food Crisis: Gulf Arabs buying farmland in Pakistan to increase food security; Germany wants higher environmental/health standards for food imports; EU chicken exporters using banned chlorine-washing process
- Global Food Crisis: Rice price falls; US Senate passes veto-proof Farm Bill; UN's FAO says it's not responsible for 78.5m additional babies born globally every year
- Global Food Crisis: Soaring global food prices may be peaking
- Global Food Crisis: Strong signs of record rice production in 2008 but prices are expected to remain high in 2008 - Myanmar/Burma disaster could worsen outlook
- Global Food Crisis: UN official says the world needs a "green revolution'' to feed its rising population
- Global Food Crisis: UN task force to tackle global crisis
- Global Food Crisis: World Bank launches $1.2 billion Fast-Track Facility for Food Crisis; Zoellick proposes 10-point plan
- Global food prices remain high despite higher output; Low Income Food Deficit Countries import bill expected to rise by 40% in 2008
- Global food production will have to increase 70% for additional 2.3 billion people by 2050
- Global forest cover shrinking by 20,000 hectares a day
- Global growth expected to exceed annualised 4% rate in second half of 2009; 4%+ growth maybe unsustainable during 2010
- Global growth to resume in the second half of 2009 but recovery will likely be anaemic
- Global high-net-worth wealth fell 19.5% in 2008; Irish HNWIs fell to 16,300; State bank guarantee/ recapitalisations “drivers of wealth”
- Global House Price Index Q2 2008: More countries registering falls as global house price inflation continues to slow
- Global House Price Index: Annual house price inflation in Q1 2008 stood at 6.1% compared to 9.2% in Q4 2007; Bulgaria heads ranking at 31.5%
- Global housing market shows some signs of recovery; One in every 136 US households with a loan got a foreclosure notice in Q3
- Global inflation impacts from rains in Iowa to China's Sichuan earthquake
- Global Inflation Risks have reemerged as major threat to the world economy says IMF
- Global Inflation: Have the world’s central banks critically misjudged the situation?
- Global Information Technology Report 2008-2009: Denmark and Sweden once again lead the rankings; Ireland gets a 23rd rank
- Global intervention by central banks to ease the worst financial crisis since the 1930's by pumping $180 billion into the inter-bank markets
- Global investment in renewable energy surged to almost $150 billion in 2007 despite financial market turmoil; Europe still leads
- Global Investor Poll: Investors sense rout in stocks after 68% 8-month rally
- Global investor risk appetite at four-year high; Japanese equities are the most undervalued in the world
- Global investors' risk appetite has reached its highest point in more than three years as double-dip recession fears fade
- Global Irish Economic Forum and branding Ireland: Green Party minister Eamon Ryan is both for and against science
- Global Irish Economic Forum: Diaspora "key achievers" due to meet; A gabfest with potential?
- Global Irish Economic Forum: Diaspora "key achievers" due to meet; A gabfest with potential?
- Global Irish Economic Forum: Diaspora baby steps on offer from Cowen when great leap forward is so overdue
- Global Irish Economic Forum: Cowen says 2 out of 3 jobs depend on exports to the EU; Asks for help on establishing 'European Silicon Valley' in Ireland
- Global manufacturing contracted in September at fastest rate since late-2001
- Global manufacturing downturn eased further in April
- Global manufacturing economy in recovery mode led by China
- Global manufacturing expansion in April at highest level since May 2004
- Global manufacturing July PMI data shows upturn in output gained traction as new orders recovered
- Global Manufacturing PMI at five-year low in July as weaker demand and high cost inflation pushed new orders and production lower
- Global Manufacturing PMI ended 2009 at 44-month high
- Global Manufacturing PMI hit a five and-a-half year high in January
- Global manufacturing PMI hit new low in December
- Global Manufacturing PMI hits 39-month high in October
- Global Manufacturing PMI plummeted to new low in November
- Global manufacturing PMI rose above neutral 50.0 level in August for first time since May 2008
- Global Manufacturing PMI rose to 70-month high in March
- Global Manufacturing PMI rose to five-month high in March; Worst of manufacturing recession may have passed
- Global manufacturing PMI rose to nine-month high in May
- Global Manufacturing PMI sank to record low in October
- Global manufacturing recession continued in February
- Global manufacturing recovery continued in February
- Global manufacturing recovery eased in May but supported fastest jobs growth in six years
- Global manufacturing sector contracted for the first time in five years in June as companies faced weaker demand and survey record cost increases
- Global manufacturing sector remained in deep recession at start of 2009; Staffing levels fell sharply in every region
- Global MBA Rankings 2010: Financial Times gives London Business School top rank; Dublin's Smurfit School in 99th place
- Global office rents fell in 2009 for the first time since 2003; Tokyo most expensive; Biggest fallers in Europe - - Kiev -50%, Dublin -38% but still 17th most expensive city
- Global Office Rents: Dublin falls to 17th most expensive in world after 28% annual dip; London’s West End again heads the rankings
- Global oil consumption will grow strongly in 2010
- Global oil demand and prices forecasts raised
- Global oil demand will collapse in 2009 as world endures a painful recession
- Global PC market growth evaporates in Fourth Quarter 2008 as Financial Crisis hits home
- Global PC shipments grew in Q3 2009; EMEA fell sharply; Acer of Taiwan overtook Dell in the No. 2 market ranking
- Global private equity leaders say the credit crunch will lead to transformation of the industry
- Global Productivity 2010: Output of employees in advanced economies fell in 2009 for the first time in more than 40 years
- Global Rate Cut of 0.5% - ECB, Federal Reserve, Bank of England, Swedish Central Bank, Bank of Canada, and the Swiss National Bank in dramatic move
- Global retail prices for laptop computers set to rise as contract manufacturers seek to hike prices for the first time
- Global service sector contracted in June at slowest pace since September 2008
- Global service sector recovery remained subdued in February
- Global services expanded for third consecutive month in October
- Global SMEs optimistic on growth prospects; Financing conditions unlikely to improve before 2011
- Global Stock Markets 2009: Russia, Brazil, India and China - - the best big market performers; Worst decade for US stocks since 1820s
- Global Stock Markets Report: Iceland and Ireland head losses in year to June
- Global study gives Ireland's broadband high ranking for penetration; Low grades behind some developing economies for quality
- Global survey of almost 1,000 technology professionals reveals IT operations need significant overhaul
- Global unemployment will not begin falling in many countries for another 10 to 12 months; Obama considering job supports
- Globalisation and Asia’s return to economic supremacy
- Globalisation will resume after crisis at slower pace; Singapore, Hong Kong and Ireland are the top globalised economies
- GMAC to Shrink ResCap Business
- GOA - the online games unit of mobile phone company Orange - expects to create 400 jobs in Dublin over next five years
- Going for Growth 2010: Easier to climb the social ladder and earn more than one’s parents in the Nordic countries, Australia and Canada
- Gold forecast to rise to $1,100 despite crumbling jewellery demand - - target price half inflation-adjusted 1980 high of $2,200
- Gold rises to a new record; Premature to expect end soon to dollar dominance
- Goldman Blends In With New Tower
- Goldman Close to Financing Deal for Extended
- Goldman Losing Real-Estate Guru
- Goldman Sachs agrees record $550m fine for "half-truths and deception," in marketing financial products; Litigation continues against French employee
- Goldman Sachs and its Trojan Horse CDOs
- Goldman Sachs apologises for its role in financial crisis; To provide $500m for 10,000 US small businesses
- Goldman Sachs banker says Greek debt hiding schemes "could have and should have” been more transparent
- Goldman Sachs chief attacks some investment banking products as socially useless
- Goldman Sachs earnings fall 11%
- Goldman Sachs faces US Senate grilling; Goldman's shares rise on bad day for Wall Street
- Goldman Sachs reports 70% drop in fiscal third-quarter net income
- Goldman Sachs reports first-quarter earnings rocketed 91%
- Goldman Sachs reports fourth-quarter loss of $2.12 billion - the first since the company went public in 1999
- Goldman Sachs reports second-quarter net profits of $3.44 billion as bank returns to pre-Lehman Brothers collapse levels of risk
- Goldman Sachs's New Palace
- Goldman Takes Heat Over Whitehall
- Goldman Wants to Foreclose on Resort
- Good Connections
- Good news for indigenous Irish exporters who are dependent on UK for more than 50% of their exports
- Good secondary-schooling key to ongoing educational, job success OECD study shows
- Good Times Ahead for Unibail
- Good, bad speculation and the oil price
- Goodbody Stockbrokers slashes Irish economic growth in 2008 to 1.1% on consumer spending slowdown; Commercial building likely to fall in 2009; 15.7% of workforce are of foreign origin
- Google Adwords campaign for IDA Ireland will promote Ireland as a location for foreign direct investment
- Google and the Irish Software Association announce new initiative to help small companies exploit internet
- Google is planning to launch operating system for personal computers in direct challenge to Microsoft
- Google launches web store and unlocked super-smartphone called Nexus One
- Google redirects search requests on its local Chinese service to its Hong Kong domain - - beyond the reach of Chinese censors
- Google reports 26% profit increase in third quarter
- Google reports 27% rise in third quarter net income
- Google reports first quarter earnings rise of 37% and a revenue gain of 23%
- Google reports growth in second quarter profit and revenue but below market expectations
- Google reports net income for the first quarter rose 8.9% to $1.42 billion
- Google reports second-quarter net income rose 35% compared with Q 2 2007 but lower than Q1 2008; Shares fall
- Google reports strong fourth quarter revenue and earnings; Signalls wish to remain in China
- Google reports strong sales despite recession times
- Google says online advertising market appears to be stabilizing; Net income surges 18% in second quarter but revenue growth slows to 3%
- Google says subject of China cyberattacks to access Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists
- Google tells Advertising Summit in Dublin as high street retailers are being hard hit in the current slowdown online purchases remain strong
- Google to launch free web browser today called Chrome
- Google, IBM, Apple and Microsoft head world's top 100 brands
- Gordon Brown scales back ambition for G-20 summit to be a Bretton Woods II; Obama arrives in London Tuesday
- Gordon Gekko returns to a Wall Street that has brought misery to millions
- Government agrees to pay suppliers within 15 days; Missing invoice syndrome unlikely to change
- Government announces "major" R&D investment to drive growth in exports and employment in Irish food sector; Enterprise Ireland to provide €20 million in funding - four food companies to supply €2 million
- Government announces new R&D Centre in Galway; 30 jobs for "highly skilled individuals" to be created
- Government announces R&D investments of €45.5 million which will create 26 new jobs
- Government announces €7bn recapitalisation of AIB and Bank of Ireland; Lenihan unaware of IL&P deposits of €7bn in Anglo
- Government budget deficits in the EU more than doubled in 2008; Ireland headed deficit rankings at 7.1% of GDP; Finland top surplus country at 4.2%; Denmark runner-up at 3.6%
- Government claims Irish €250m subsidy scheme will protect 27,400 exporting jobs but why the delay?
- Government considering deferring payment of some of "bad bank" NAMA bonds to ensure more equitable risk sharing between banks and taxpayers
- Government debt in Eurozone may top 100% of GDP with “severe consequences” for growth/ stability says ECB official
- Government in emergency move plans to announce Budget 2009 on October 14th in response to worsening Irish public finances
- Government is seeking foreign cash injections for Irish banks
- Government of Iceland toppled as street protestors launch "Saucepan Revolution" - first ruling political casualty of credit crisis
- Government publishes "Delivering the Smart Economy" report on Irish science research activity
- Government publishes action plan for reform of the Irish public service; New public spending review group to report by June 2009
- Government publishes Irish Sate bank guarantee detail; Expects to recoup €1 billion over the two years
- Government support to farmers rises slightly in OECD countries to $252.5bn or 22% of total farm receipts in 2009
- Government to launch new pension scheme to protect workers at failing Irish companies
- Government to present Anglo Irish Bill on good day for bad news; Mass resignation of directors
- Government to privatise health insurer VHI which was established in 1957
- Government to provide up to €10 billion for the recapitalisation of Irish banks
- Government to provide €250 million fund for Irish jobs at risk
- Government unintentionally cuts Irish science funding by 15%; Why should anyone be surprised with unintentional spending increases?
- Government's emergency legislation to provide €400 billion guarantee for Irish banking system to be passed by Oireachtas today
- Governor: WTC Site Faces Delays
- Grafton Group reports 50% drop in pre-tax profit to €53.4 million in H1 2008
- Grafton Group reports revenue fell 26% to €1.98bn in 2009; Pre-tax profits dipped 79% to €13.6m
- Grafton Group says 2008 earnings will be at lower end of expectations; Fyffes seeking significant increases in selling prices in 2009
- Grafton Group says 2009 turnover to the end of October was down 28%
- Grafton Group says Irish sales fell by 16% in first four months of 2008
- Grafton Group says it is well positioned for a challenging trading environment in the UK and Ireland; Sales declined by 16% in May and June in the Irish market
- Grafton Group says turnover is down 14.5% to €2.35 billion in the 10 months to October 2008
- Grafton Group signals return to growth for first time since H2 2007
- Grafton reports 73% fall in pre-tax profit in 2008
- Grafton reports plunge in H1 2009 pre-tax profit to €3.7 million
- Gramercy, SL Green Start Split
- Grand Investment Gets Capital Injection
- Grand Theft Auto IV video game sales top $500 million in the first week
- Greatest Bubble in History: Warnings ignored in US and Ireland; Vacant Irish housing units rise 150% to 350,000 in period 2002/08
- Greece announces €4.8bn austerity plan
- Greece is targeting 70 employees of its Finance Ministry who are property millionaires
- Greece reports plunge in budget deficit in H1 2010
- Greece, Portugal and Spain export little beyond the Eurozone
- Greed Incorporated: Obama slams "irresponsible" and "shameful" bonuses for Wall Street bankers
- Greek crisis and why getting tough on CDSs - - credit default swaps - - does more harm than good
- Greek debt crisis contagion continues as focus of markets; IMF chief warns of delay in resolving crisis
- Greek government agrees draft outline of a €24bn fiscal rescue plan
- Green Builders Await the Green
- Green Party Minister Ryan announces wish list/plan to create 30,000 jobs begining with 50 in first year; Everything branded with "smart' but the political system
- Greencore announces €21m cost concealment fraud at its Scottish Mineral Water business
- Greencore announces €21m cost concealment fraud at its Scottish Mineral Water business
- Greencore reports 14% drop in pretax profits for the six months to the end of March
- Greencore reports annual loss of €8.4m
- Greencore reports pre-tax loss of €27m for the six months to March 27, 2009
- Greencore reports pre-tax profits for the year to end of September fell by 30% to €41.7m
- Greencore says outlook positive despite poor consumer sentiment and weather in UK
- Greenspan Blasts Fannie, Freddie Fix
- Greenspan “shocked” to learn of the breakdown in lending standards and risk management; Says “found a flaw” in his ideology in testimony on the "once-in-a century credit tsunami"
- Greentown Buys Back Its Foreign Bonds
- Greenwich Global Hedge Fund Index rose 2.01% in May - up 0.49% in 2008 compared with loss of 3.81% for S&P 500
- Gross Irish insurance premium income for 2008 fell 26%
- Grosvenor Launches China Fund
- Group of Eight finance ministers warn on inflation; Financial Stability Forum says initial implementation of financial system reforms "on track"
- Growing Delinquency Rate Slows
- Growing fears over future of Dell's manufacturing plant in Limerick as Dell's share price falls to 10-year low
- Growth in Chinese manufacturing continued in July but at a slower pace: Indian manufacturing remained robust
- Growth in world merchandise trade fell to 6% in real terms in 2007 - down from 8.5% in 2006
- Growth of Eurozone private sector at 26-month high in December
- Growth of Eurozone service sector moderated at start of 2010; Ireland was the weakest performer overall
- Growth of Eurozone services activity and new business at 25-month highs in December
- Growth of global economy at 21-month high in September
- Growth of global economy at 34-month high in April
- Growth of global manufacturing and services accelerated in December 2009
- Growth of global manufacturing continued in September
- Growth of global service sector activity and new business slowed in June
- Growth of global service sector moderated in January
- Growth of global services activity in May stayed close to April's 33-month high
- Growth of Japanese manufacturing continued in October; Consumer prices and jobless rate dipped in September
- Growth of Japanese manufacturing eased in November; Data on October industrial output less than expected; Wages slide for 17th straight month
- Growth of Japan’s manufacturing sector gained momentum in August
- Grubb & Ellis CEO Resigns
- GSW Offering: Springtime for IPOs?
- Guardian Life, Lowe Team Up
- Guinness owner Diageo unveils €650m brewing investment for Ireland; 250 jobs to be cut
- Guinness parent Diageo selects Ireland as its Global R&D Centre of Excellence for Beer
- Gulf Firms Retrench Amid Crisis
- Gulf states face crippling shortages of energy, water and food unless resource management is overhauled now
- Gushing Life in Epicenter
- Hacker indicted for massive attack on US retail/banking networks; 130m cards at risk
- Hackers in Europe and China broke into computers at about 2,500 companies and government agencies over the last 18 months
- Haiti's Rubble Holds Key to Survival
- Half of Irish adults under the age of 45 have no occupational pension
- Hanafin says over 1 million workers in Ireland have no private pension - almost 50% of workforce and majority of private sector workers
- Hancock at Center of 'Tranche Warfare'
- Hancock Tower Draws Low Bid
- Hang Lung Bets on China Deals
- Hang Lung's Profit Soared in First Half
- Happy Christmas, Maligayang Pasko, Gōng Xǐ Fā Cái or Happy Holidays may be your fancy
- Hard-Won Wisdom for Guangzhou R&F
- Hardware Games
- Harlem Developers Near Default
- Harrah's Buys Planet Hollywood Debt
- Harvard Tests Market for Property Bets
- Hatteras Financial Shares Rise 2.8%
- Hawaii Hotels Face Tough Times
- Headquarters with Living Quarters
- Health REITs Provide Bright Spot
- Heart of La Defense in Talks With Creditors
- Hedge Fund billionaires see merit in some regulation
- Hedge Fund Manager calls it a day; Thanks idiots whose parents paid for prep school, Yale, and then the Harvard MBA, who were there for the taking
- Hedge funds administrator Citco to cut Irish jobs
- Hedge funds down on average up to 16.60% in October - about half the decline in equities
- Hedge Funds falter as big shakeout underway; Over 9,000 employed in administration in Ireland
- Hedge Funds Help Fill a Gap
- Hedge funds performance index fell for fifth straight month in November
- Helmsley Estate Sells Manhattan Hotel
- Help for Home Buyers
- Help Wanted
- Henderson to Build Up Landbank
- Here's Donald, to Assist Ed McMahon
- Hewlett-Packard reports 13% fall in quarterly profit; Revenue ex-US at 65% of total; Pay cut planned
- Hewlett-Packard reports 14% jump in quarterly profit
- Hewlett-Packard reports 14% rise in quarterly profit amid strong international sales; Revenue from outside of the US was 68% of the total
- Hewlett-Packard reports 19% drop in quarterly profit; Sees "stabilized market"
- Hewlett-Packard reports 19% drop in quarterly profit; Sees "stabilized market"
- Hewlett-Packard reports quarterly profit jumped 25%
- Hewlett-Packard says fiscal-second-quarter results were helped by strong growth from international sales accounting for 70% of revenues
- Hewlett-Packard to acquire EDS for $13.9 billion; IT services company was founded by Ross Perot in 1962
- Hewlett-Packard to create 500 jobs at its Liffey Park Technology Campus in Leixlip
- Hewlett-Packard to cut 24,600 jobs
- Hibernian says half of Ireland’s population is not financially prepared for recession and do not have enough savings to cope with the unexpected
- High costs doom 400 manufacturing jobs in Waterford/ Dublin; Teva to cut 315 jobs - - had planned 165 new jobs in 2008
- High Court agrees to hear second application for court protection of Carroll's technically insolvent companies
- High Court appointed administrators seize control of Quinn Insurance Limited - - owned by Irish billionaire Seán Quinn
- High Court approves provisional liquidator for two Carroll companies; Investment body chief warns on NAMA forcing big "haircut" on toxic loans
- High-Stakes Battle for Macau Project
- Higher average farm prices expected say OECD and FAO; Brazil's agriculture growth set to outpace the EU27 four-fold in next 10 years
- Higher taxes on US-based multinationals would hurt US workers and exports; US share of MNC employment at 69%
- Highest number of Irish births registered since 1896
- Hilton Buyout Drags Blackstone
- Hilton Debt Weighs on Blackstone
- Hilton Plans Expansion in Asia
- Hiring climate in Ireland subdued; Job prospects for the majority of World Labour Markets decline
- Hochfelder Accused of Larceny in Deals
- Home Builders Hammer FDIC
- Home Builders Pulte and Centex Do Better
- Home Builders See Daylight
- Home Builders See Recovery
- Home Builders Shop for Cheap Land
- Home Buyers Seek Sleepover 'Test Drive'
- Home Buyers, Start Your Engines
- Home Data in Spain Spell Gloomy News
- Home Depot Chief Renovates
- Home Gauge Climbs Amid Bargains
- Home Heat: a Rush for Alternatives
- Home Improvement Goes On
- Home Magazine a Victim of Housing Woes
- Home Prices Continue to Decline
- Home Prices Continued Fall in May
- Home prices fell in 80% of US cities in the third quarter - a record triggered by distressed foreclosure sales
- Home Prices Hold Key in Credit Crisis
- Home prices in 20 major US cities rose for a fourth straight month in September; Las Vegas most depressed market with peak-to-trough plunge of -55.4%
- Home Remodel Hits Bumpy Road
- Home Resales Fall, Inventories Surge
- Home Resales Resume Declines
- Home Sales Rise but Risks Persist
- Home Sales Rise in Hard-Hit Areas
- Home Sales Surge in New Zealand
- Home Sellers Try Leaseback Tactic
- Home Supply Fell Over Past Year
- Home Vacancies Set Record
- Home's Insured, but Is It Enough?
- Home-Appraisal Row May End Up in Court
- Home-Equity Woes Tarry
- Home-Insurance Credits
- Home-Price Decline Spreads
- Home-Price Declines Continue
- Home-Price Watchers Hope Drop Slows
- Homes With Yacht Space
- Hong Kong heads the 2009 Index of Economic Freedom; Ireland gets a fourth ranking
- Hong Kong Land Sale Signals Cooling
- Hong Kong Lowers Threshold for Property Sales
- Hong Kong Luxury Condos Shimmer
- Hong Kong Tops List of Expensive Offices
- Hong Kong Trophy Goes for Record Price
- Hong Kong Warns of Bubble Risk
- Hong Kong's internet domain is biggest security threat to web visitors; Finland's is world's safest; Irish .ie domain sixth safest in Europe but rating fell in 2008
- Hongkong Land's Underlying Net Rises
- Honohan calls for inquiry into Irish banking crisis similar to investigation of 9/11 security failures by the US Congress
- Honohan says Government will provide further significant capital funding to the Irish banks in coming weeks
- Honohan says “ignorance and inattention” were at the heart of regulatory failure; IFSC group warns income tax hikes will cause job losses
- Hope Arises for Housing-Bill Deal
- Hope for Commercial Property Takes Hit
- Hormann Electronics to shut Cork operation with loss of 138 jobs
- Horse Racing Ireland says industry contracted in 2008 for first time in 15 years
- Hot, Cold for REIT IPOs
- Hotel Builders Make Reservations. Real Estate In Central Oregon
- Hotel Deals Pick Up
- Hotel Feud Prompts Grand Jury Probe
- Hotel High Noon
- Hotel Investors at Crossroads
- Hotel Loans: Must Sell
- Hotel Receivers Earn Rich Rewards
- Hotel REITs Seek to Conserve Capital
- Hotel Sears Tower?
- Hotel Venture Runs Into Ugly Reality
- Hotel, 68% Off
- Hotels Change Names to Draw Business
- Hotels Change Names to Draw Conferences
- Hotels Hint at Turnaround
- Hotels Risk Losing Holiday Inn Brand
- Hotels Sound Alarm on Time Shares
- Hotels Struggle Under Debt Burden
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to establish R&D Headquarters in Dublin and create 450 jobs over 5 years
- Hourly labour costs in the Eurozone rose by 2.1% in the year up to the first quarter of 2010
- House Approves Foreclosure Package
- House Hunt: Options Stir In Builders
- House Passes Homeowner Aid
- House prices in England and Wales fell for the seventh straight month during April; Scotland’s housing market is proving remarkably robust
- House prices in Europe remain above long-term average; Further price declines likely in Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Italy and France
- Housing Bill Clears Hurdle
- Housing Bill Close to Becoming Law
- Housing Bill Is Mixed Bag for Builders
- Housing Bill to Aid Democratic Ally
- Housing Bill's Tax Credit Draws Criticism
- Housing Bill: A Boon for Homebuilders?
- Housing Deal Protects Complex
- Housing Downturn Hits Home Depot
- Housing Glut Eases Slightly
- Housing Inventory Drops as Sellers Retreat
- Housing Lenders Feel Heat
- Housing Market Still Under Pressure
- Housing Package Deal Reached
- Housing Pain Hits Prime Borrowers
- Housing Plan Fails to Excite
- Housing Recession Just Builds
- Housing Slump Hits Bank Stocks
- Housing Slump Hits Latino Workers
- Housing slumps may end soon in Germany, Japan and the US; No early prospect of end in Spain and Ireland
- Housing starts in the US in April were 40.9% higher than in April 2009; US producer price index for finished goods fell 0.1% in April
- Housing Study Says Worst Isn't Over
- Housing Supply Declined in May
- Housing Woes Still Linger
- Housing's Chill Hits Apartments
- Housing-Aid Measure Advances
- How 1 Property Sank Savings of 35 Investors
- How Casino Odds Turned Against Morgan Stanley
- How challenging is Unconventional Monetary Policy?
- How Far Up Will Dubai Tower Finally Top Out?
- How Long Will Lower Vacancy Rate Hold Up?
- How Six Deals Weathered the Slump
- How to Attract Canadian Buyers
- How to Buy a Foreclosed Home
- How to Find Foreign Home Buyers
- How to put the global economy on a sustainable growth path
- HP reports 28% increase in profit
- HP reports 3.2% revenue fall in fiscal second quarter; To cut additional 6,000 jobs - - 2% of workforce
- HSBC Future of Retirement Report 2008: In global survey 34% of respondents support enforced private savings - reaching a high of 68% in Germany
- HSBC Unit Buys Washington Building
- HSBC's Housing Woes Lessen
- HUD Nominee Expected to Be Confirmed
- Hyatt Hotels Lends a Helping Hand
- Hyatt to Boost Presence in Big Cities
- Hypo Borrowers Exhale
- Hypo Real Estate Faces Probe
- Hypo Real Estate Forecasts Grim Outlook
- Hypo Real Estate Posts Provisional Loss
- Hypo Real Estate Welcomes An Offer from Flowers Group
- IAVI - Irish Auctioneers & Valuers Institute - has reached agreement with the National Consumer Agency on publishing correct sales prices; The Irish Times had raised the issue with the agents
- IAWS boosted by global food demand boom reports revenue rise of 34.7% in the nine months to April 26th 2008; Origin Enterprises' revenue jumped by 52%
- IBEC says over 20% of Irish employers have implemented pay reductions
- IBEC appoints economist Danny McCoy as Director General
- IBEC calls for 10% rebate on commercial rates for Irish retailers from cash-strapped local authorities
- IBEC calls for ending of pay parity link in Irish public sector pensions that gives them a six-star standard status
- IBEC calls for overhaul of Joint Labour Committee system which sets pay/conditions for 170,000 Irish workers
- IBEC calls for reforms to transform Irish pubic service; What about its own credibility?
- IBEC delivers Irish tribal conservatism not needed radicalism
- IBEC Director General Turlough O’Sullivan to retire in 2009
- IBEC gives "cautious approval" to National Pay Agreement; Exporters say many companies will use "inability to pay" clause
- IBEC report says Ireland more attractive for FDI post-crisis - - a mix of reality and spin
- IBEC reports marked improvement in Irish business sentiment
- IBEC says challenge for EU Lisbon Treaty advocates as many voters remain either un-informed or confused
- IBEC says economic crisis demands new Irish public investment plan
- IBEC says Irish GDP will expand 1.7% in 2011; Says no to carbon tax; Proposes €5bn fiscal adjustment; Jobs stimulus; Lower minimum wage
- IBEC says Irish pay rises in 2010 unrealistic; Minister warns of impending “significant lowering” of salaries for high public earners
- IBEC says Irish pay rises in 2010 unrealistic; Minister warns of impending “significant lowering” of salaries for high public earners
- IBEC says Irish public procurement system worth €16bn annually is dysfunctional but fears radical reform
- IBEC says most Irish companies expect a pay and recruitment freeze
- IBEC says re-energising trade with the US is a key component in Ireland's economic recovery
- IBEC slams ICTU ballot for a one-day national work stoppage
- IBEC slams Irish national strike plan; DAA says Dublin, Cork and Shannon Airports are to be targeted next Monday
- IBEC would support reintroduction of Irish third-level tuition fees
- IBEC's food and drinks unit says 2,000 jobs lost in 2009; Calls for introduction in Ireland of Supermarket Ombudsman
- IBM bucks trend with 12% increase in fourth-quarter profit and positive outlook for 2009
- IBM collaborates with Irish universities to solve complex business issues; Plans to create 40 jobs
- IBM establishes Smarter Cities Technology Centre in Ireland
- IBM invests €30m in ‘Green’ Data Centre and Global Supply Chain Hub in Dublin
- IBM reports second-quarter net income jumped 22%
- IBM reports 13% rise in profit in first quarter
- IBM reports 30th consecutive quarter of earnings gains but tepid sales growth; Amazon.com sold more e-books than hardbacks in Q 2 2010
- IBM reports quarterly profit up 14%
- IBM second-quarter profit rose 12% but sales fell
- IBM to shed up to 200 jobs in Dublin
- IBM to shed up to 200 jobs in Dublin
- Icahn Joins Trump Casino Fight
- Icahn Wins Bid for Fontainebleau
- ICBC Pushes Into U.S.
- Iceland agrees with British/Dutch to repay €4bn lost in failed Icelandic bank by 2024; Paves way for more IMF aid
- Iceland makes waves again as ash hurls across Northern Europe
- Iceland to cut public spending by 30% over next 3 years; Slams UK and Netherlands
- Iceland's president rejects Bill on compensation for UK and Dutch savers; IMF aid package at risk
- Iceland: People before profits and people before banks!
- Iceland’s central bank raises benchmark interest rate to 18% from 12% on instructions of the International Monetary Fund
- ICTU calls for return to 1980s era Irish income tax rates with combined top rate of 65%
- IDA Ireland congratulates Liebherr on its 50th anniversary in Killarney, County Kerry
- IDA Ireland puts 2009 numbers on net job losses, new investments but no values; Total jobs fall below 2000 level
- IDA Ireland says 2,300 new jobs created in assisted foreign-owned companies in HI 2009; 6,000 jobs lost
- IDA Ireland says Ireland continues its transition into a leading 21st century innovation-led economy; Agency should be more direct on the challenges ahead
- IDA Ireland says job numbers at foreign-owned firms fell in 2008
- IDA Ireland targets 62,000 direct new jobs by 2014; No estimate of job losses; In 2009 total employed in IDA supported companies fell below the 2000 level
- IDA Ireland welcomes Intel’s new European ‘Open Lab’ for Leixlip
- IDA Ireland Horizon 2020 Strategy: Lack of coherence on changes facing existing Irish-based multinationals/ challenges of adapting model for China and India - - Prof. Seamus Grimes
- IEA says rising oil supplies will help offset higher demand over the next five years; Further investment and better data is needed
- IFG reports flat pre-tax profits of €9.9m in H1 2008
- IFG says overall performance in 2008 has been good
- IFG says overall performance in 2008 has been good
- Ifo Economics Institute raises German growth forecast for 2008 but lowers it for 2009
- Ifo Institute says few German firms impacted by the Credit Crunch
- Ifo Institute's Sinn launches Kasino-Kapitalismus on banking crisis
- Ifo Institute: Between 1992 and 2007 European home building volume rose by about one third; Civil engineering construction only grew 18% in real terms; Commercial construction 16%
- Ifo Institute: German industry falls further behind the US in terms of productivity because of insufficient investment in information technologies
- Ifo World Economic Climate Index falls further; Economic situation is unfavourable in Spain, Italy, Belgium and Ireland
- Ifo World Economic Climate Indicator for Eurozone improves in second quarter of 2009 for the first time since autumn 2007
- Ifo World Economic Climate Indicator rises for Eurozone
- IFSC accounts for €789.1 billion of €1.1 trillion of external Irish debt
- IIB Bank rebranded as KBC Bank Ireland; Opts out of Irish State banking guarantee scheme following €3.5 billion capital injection by Belgian government into parent bank
- IIB Bank's Austin Hughes changes tack on ECB rate cuts but still forecasts Eurozone recession that would result in cuts of 0.75% by early 2009
- Illinois Plans to Sue Countrywide, CEO
- ILO report says huge growth in executive pay does not boost performance; CEO pay at 15 top US firms jumped to 520 times average earnings in 2007
- ILO says global financial crisis to increase unemployment by 20 million
- ILO says global financial crisis to increase unemployment by 20 million
- IMD of Switzerland tops Economist Intelligence Unit's 2008 MBA rankings; Dublin's Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business gets 40th ranking
- IMF and World Bank say need to Fix Banking Sector for stimulus to work
- IMF approves bond sales to member countries for first time to support bailouts; World Bank increases support 54% in 12 months to June to counter financial crisis
- IMF backs continued Chinese stimulus, and economic rebalancing
- IMF calls on Japan to cut public debt; Net debt to-GDP ratio heading for 140% of GDP in 2014 -- 240% in gross terms
- IMF Chief says leading economies in Depression; Warns of failure to act on Banks; US and Ireland prepare new bank bailout plans
- IMF chief says many of world’s leading economies fooling themselves on foreign export demand driving their recoveries
- IMF chief says US consumer is currently the engine of worldwide growth
- IMF chief sees a strengthening of global economic recovery; Greece bailout plan to cover three years with strict conditions
- IMF Conference Call on Ireland: New sources of growth required; No reason to fear default on debt
- IMF Economic Forum: Financial system risks still high; Governments need to rethink how the financial sector intersects with the broader economy
- IMF economist forecasts more house price falls in both the US and Europe
- IMF forecasts a solid recovery of US economy from the middle of 2010
- IMF forecasts global recession in 2009 for first time in 60 years; Advanced economies to contract sharply - - upturn in 2010
- IMF forecasts Global Recession; Advanced economies will have first annual contraction since 1945
- IMF Global Stability Report: Capital surges can be difficult for recipient countries
- IMF has sold 212 tons of gold to central banks since September 2009
- IMF head says global growth still largely driven by government stimulus measures; Double-dip not forecast but "it may happen"
- IMF official says euro’s fall brings currency nearer to more balanced level
- IMF paper says central banks will have to hike interest rates to rein in inflation/ restore a measure of stability in commodities and financial markets
- IMF praises China's progress on currency liberalisation; Says still room for more fiscal stimulus into 2010
- IMF prepares "unprecedented" $17 billion package of supports for poor nations; Will sell 400 metric tons of gold to fund lending
- IMF proposes two new taxes on banks to the G-20 to fund future bailouts
- IMF raises forecast for global growth to 4.25%; Sees multispeed recovery
- IMF report on Japan projects GDP to fall by 6% in 2009; Inflation is projected to remain negative until 2011
- IMF revises up global forecast to near 4% for 2010
- IMF says "you never recover before the cleaning up of the banking sector': Mexico requests $47 billion credit line from Fund
- IMF says budget deficits in industrialised countries will remain sky-high in 2010; Economic recovery partially relies on confidence
- IMF says central banks should place greater emphasis on avoiding asset price busts
- IMF says close ties led to crisis in world’s five major economies; Integrated financial/banking/trade systems spread worst financial crisis in 60 years
- IMF says commodity prices buoyant in year of crisis and recovery
- IMF says crisis deals sharp blow to Asian growth
- IMF says crisis is moment of truth for Europe; Sweden braces for fallout from Baltic banking crisis
- IMF says debt retrenchment in Europe will be “extremely painful” and take up to 20 years
- IMF says debt-to-GDP ratio of advanced countries to rise by 20 percentage points in 2009 - - biggest upturn in decades
- IMF says Europe’s economy is resilient but not immune to global economic threats; Forecasts couple of slow growth years
- IMF says Eurozone needs to do more to clean up banking sector; Recovery likely to be slow - - shape and timing highly uncertain
- IMF says France has less severe recession but tepid recovery in prospect
- IMF says Germany faces extended downturn despite stimulus
- IMF says global economic crisis has left deep scars; US proposal to extend financial regulation breaks new ground
- IMF says Global Economy contracts in the most severe recession since World War II; Slow recovery in 2010
- IMF says global economy to slow dramatically; Morgan Stanley forecasts outright contraction in Eurozone economic activity
- IMF says global financial crisis has begun to hit the world’s poorest and most vulnerable countries
- IMF says global recovery under way but likely to be slow
- IMF says government debt is raising risk for the world financial system; Western banks are due to have further bank writedowns of $800bn
- IMF says governments need a plan to dispose of the crisis assets; Ireland/Denmark unique in guaranteeing existing bank debt
- IMF says growth in UK expected to gradually pick up through 2010 but speed and strength of recovery remain highly uncertain
- IMF says Latin America helps shape global economic recovery
- IMF says more action is needed to avoid protracted decline in Eurozone
- IMF says nascent global recovery from recession needs nurturing
- IMF says restarting securitisation markets is “critical” to a wider economic recovery; Detoxing radioactive term from crisis
- IMF says rising unemployment marks crisis third wave; Survey says global labour market is at turning point
- IMF says risks to global financial system have subsided; Banks face additional writedowns of $1.5 trillion by end of 2010 - - particularly in Europe
- IMF says tax cuts in response to global slowdown should favour spenders not savers; Calls for big spending measures
- IMF says tax policies helped fuel the credit boom by encouraging borrowing by companies and individuals
- IMF says US and European banks need to raise $875 billion in capital by 2010; Global financial sectors face losses of about $4.1 trillion between 2007 and 2010
- IMF says worst of the financial crisis may still lie ahead; Storm can be weathered without a damaging global recession; Recovery to be only gradual
- IMF sees multi-speed recovery in Europe in 2010; Trichet, says "confidence is the key word for 2010"
- IMF sees unemployment remaining high in many advanced economies
- IMF staff paper says controls on capital could be useful part of policy toolkit - - radical change from conventional wisdom
- IMF studies how to pay for financial sector rescues
- IMF study says financial crisis alters pattern of US consumption; Implications for global economic development
- IMF supported programs help countries weather the worst of the global crisis says internal review
- IMF Survey: Comparing recessions in Germany, Spain, and United Kingdom
- IMF to sell gold; Strauss-Kahn says on global recovery "too early to declare victory and to say that the crisis is behind us"
- IMF urges G-20 States to take more decisive action to combat crisis
- IMF urges G20 industrialized and developing economies to take action to help counter global economic slowdown; World Bank says global trade could fall for the first time since 1982
- IMF warns of decade of restraint ahead; Public debt in developed economies of G-20 to rise to 118% of GDP by 2014
- IMF World Economic Outlook Update: Global economy is beginning to pull out of a recession unprecedented in the post–World War II era
- IMF's F&D Magazine looks at world emerging from crisis
- IMF's Finance & Development: Asia is moving into a leadership role in the world economy
- IMF's Strauss-Kahn says closer cooperation needed in Europe; Commission warns Eurozone’s four biggest countries and Ireland growth forecasts too optimistic
- IMF's Strauss-Kahn says global cooperation saved the world; Germany opposes the Fund becoming a banker of last resort
- IMF, EU and World Bank announce $25.1 billion support package for Hungary; Risk of sudden interruptions or reversals in capital flows has risen appreciably
- IMF’s regional outlook shows Asia leading global recovery
- IMI’s National Leadership Forum urges immediate global roadshow to enhance "Brand Ireland"; A case of putting the cart before the horse?
- Immigrants fare less well than Irish nationals in the Irish labour market says ESRI/Equality Authority report
- Impact of crisis on unemployment less severe in EU than in US
- Impact of long-term unemployment: Lost income, lost friends, loss of self-respect and depression
- Important Investors’ mechanism
- Improving governance for development and in crony systems in Ireland and Japan
- In 2008 696,000 persons acquired citizenship of an EU27 member state; 29% were Africans; 3,250 new Irish in 2008
- In a Slow Market, Builders Offer Big Incentives
- In Atlanta, Irrational Building Exuberance
- In Berlin, a Buying Opportunity
- In Booming Dubai, Call It the Anti-'Credit Crunch'
- In Developers' Sights: London's Earls Court
- In dramatic move US Securities and Exchange Commission charges Goldman Sachs with subprime fraud
- In Dubai, Defaults Hit Developers
- In Dubai, Show Goes On for Property
- In Dublin Elan tumbles 46% on Tysabri report; In New York GM stuns market with $15.5 billion second-quarter net loss
- In financial services, independent yet overlapping functions hinder a comprehensive understanding of risk
- In Hong Kong, Cooling Trend
- In Ireland 0.6% of broadband connections are fibre optic; By 2015 every Finnish household must be within 2km of fibre optic cable running at 100 megabits per second
- In January 2010 the population of the EU27 was 501.m; Highest birth rates in Ireland, UK and France - - lowest in Germany and Austria
- In July UK consumer price inflation surged to 4.4%; House prices fell as property market slowed to a ``virtual standstill''
- In Pennsylvania, Hope for CMBS
- In praise of manual work and liberation from the "knowledge economy" robotic world!
- In Some Cities, Downturn Revives Building Plans
- In Spain, Property Bargains Abound
- In Spain, Property Bargains Abound
- In the Internet age physical location remains a key driver of innovation says Economist Intelligence Unit
- In US confidence in Obama on the slide because of weak economy; In Australia the Prime Minister resigns despite economic good fortune
- In Virginia, It's a Tenant's Market
- In Volkswagen, 'Dynamo of Dixie' Hitches Ride
- Incoming Taoiseach Brian Cowen says Ireland has lost competitiveness in recent years; Concerned at the very significant payments being made to senior business people
- Inconvenient Truths: ESRI responds to criticism of Irish waste management policy report; Gormley commissions new report from high fee lawyer on incinerator plan for his constituency
- Increase of 2.8% in new Irish private cars licensed in July; Decrease of 15.4% in January-July 2008 period
- Increase of 83.7% in new Irish private cars licensed in May 2010
- Increased demand and relocation activity slowing rental declines in the majority of global office markets
- Increasing number of petitions for Irish company examinership are failing
- Independent News & Media notes unwarranted decline in share price; Irish and UK staff accepted "comprehensive" series of pay reductions
- Independent News & Media rejects Denis O'Brien's restructuring proposal
- Independent News & Media reports 2.6% increase in H1 2008 pre-tax profits
- Independent News & Media reports €53.8 million loss in H1 2009
- Independent News & Media says advertising revenue is stabilising
- Independent News & Media says discussions on €200 million bonds signal a consensual solution
- Independent News & Media says financial standstill agreed on bonds and new working capital facilities procured
- Independent News and Media reports loss of €161.4 million in 2008; Problems in securing borrowing facilities to fund maturity of €200 million bond
- Index of leading US economic indicators dipped in February for the third time in five months
- Index of leading US economic indicators unexpectedly increased in December as the Fed expanded the money supply
- India has youngest workforce among large economies; Demographics necessary for strong growth but insufficient condition
- India rebounds; Needs to return to reform agenda says IMF
- India sailed through the Great Crisis of 2008-09; Celebration may be premature
- India Tourism Booms, But Just Try Finding a Hotel
- India's manufacturing boosted by higher domestic demand in September
- India's Property Sector May Offer Bargains
- India's Property Stocks Get Hot
- Indian Builders Lower Sights
- Indian Builders Lower Sights
- India’s elections: Smaller parties will shine but the economy may suffer; Large number of criminals expected to be elected
- Indonesia - - an emerging Asia Tiger?
- Industrial commodity prices are expected to remain low in 2009; Economist Intelligence Unit's IRM price index will fall by an average of 41%
- Industrial commodity prices are expected to weaken in the second half of 2008
- Industrial overcapacity in China is “wreaking far-reaching damage on the global economy”
- Industrial Parks in the Moscow and Neighboring Regions: The Advantages
- Industrial producer price index rose by 1.1% in July in the Eurozone - annual increase up 9%
- Industrial production down by 1.6% in November both Eurozone and EU27; Down 7.7% in 12 months to November
- Industrial production down by 2.3% in Eurozone in February; Annual plunge of 18.4%
- Industrial production fell in Eurozone and EU27 in July 2009
- Industrial production up by 1.3% in Eurozone in March
- IndyMac Halts Foreclosures
- IndyMac Is Included in FBI Inquiry
- IndyMac Plans Chapter 7 Filing
- IndyMac Sheds Retail Mortgage Branches
- IndyMac Works With U.S. Regulators
- Inequities are killing people on a "grand scale" reports WHO's Commission
- Inflation a key economic concern for India and China as growth accelerates; Asia to expand by 6.6% in 2010
- Inflation as a solution for America's fiscal problems?
- Inflation causes German consumer climate to plunge in July
- Inflation is biggest concern related to Food and Fuel Price increases, IMF Managing Director Strauss-Kahn warns G8
- Inflation Slows in Singapore's Residential Market
- Inflation worriers hit the panic buttons during Great Recession; Medium-term inflation risks - - are they a serious threat?
- Infrastructure Investment: What Does It Mean for appraisers?
- InishTech launched as a new Irish start-up to handle Microsoft's software licensing and protection services
- InjuriesBoard.ie paid out €113 million to 4,652 personal injury claimants in H1 2008; Awards since 2004 to exceed €500 million in 2008
- InjuriesBoard.ie paid €217m in compensation to 8,845 Personal Injury Claimants in 2008
- Innovation Ireland Taskforce's aspirational report; US banks / credit-card companies contribute most money for start-ups - - not venture capital companies
- Innovation Ireland Taskforce: Yet another 120,000 jobs plucked from the air by insiders?; In UK 2,900 high-tech companies in business since 1991 have only 40,000 jobs
- Innovation Ireland: Science Foundation claims 8 spinout companies from university research; Enterprise Ireland claims over 100
- Innovation, The Venturesome Economy and Ireland
- Insider trading case sinks multi-billion dollar hedge fund Galleon
- Insider trading charges against Hedge Fund billionaire/ executives at IBM, Intel and McKinsey expected to lead to more cases
- Insolvent State agency Dublin Docklands Development Authority plunges to massive loss of €213m; Taxpayer bailout signalled after reckless venture
- Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland says Companies Bill 2009 – Directors Loans sections confused and contradictory
- Institutional investors set to increase exposure to Asia; China and India to get lion’s share of investment
- Insurance Dilemma Hits Fannie, Freddie
- Insurance Forecast. Golf Course Real Estate In Memphis
- Insurance group Aon Corporation to establish what is called a Global Centre of Excellence in Dublin
- Insurance group FBD cuts earnings forecast; Shares plunge 21% in Dublin
- Insurance group Hibernian plans to transfer 580 Irish jobs to India
- Insurance on the Logistics Market. Las Vegas Residential Real Estate
- Insurers Criticized for New Rate Models
- Insurers Get Cold Feet Where Wildfires Burn
- Insuring Real Estate. Pleasanton California Real Estate Agent
- Intel - - Ireland's largest industrial employer - - to cut 294 Irish jobs
- Intel raises its revenue outlook
- Intel raises its revenue outlook
- Intel reports 12% jump in third-quarter profit
- Intel reports 90% fall in fourth quarter profits
- Intel reports best first quarter since it was founded in 1968
- Intel reports better than expected third quarter results
- Intel reports blowout fourth quarter with net income up 875%
- Intel reports record revenues of $9.5 billion in the second quarter; Chipmaker celebrates 40th anniversary this week
- Intel reports second quarter loss after booking EU antitrust fine; Signals worst trading conditions in history for chip industry are over
- Intel reports the strongest quarterly results since it was founded in 1968
- Intel says the PC market "bottomed out" in first quarter; Net income plunges 55%
- Interest on Irish national debt will take 18.7% of tax revenues in 2013; National Pensions Fund achieved return of 1.3% in H1 2009
- Interest payments on Irish national debt to rise from 3.8% of tax revenue in 2008 to at least 20% by 2013; Pension fund loses 6.7% in Q1 2009 after loss of -30.4% in 2008
- Interest rates headed for historic lows - - Simon Barry, Ulster Bank
- Interesting Times
- International aircraft leasing in Ireland employs 1,000 on average salaries over €110,000
- International consultancy Gerson Lehrman to create 50 jobs in Dublin over 3 years; Coughlan hails capture of "sophisticated operation" deal
- International Energy Agency calls for greenhouse gas emissions slump to be made permanent
- International Energy Agency cuts long-term forecast for global oil demand due to economic crisis and climate change policies
- International Energy Agency cuts oil demand forecast but crude rebounds above $136 a barrel in New York
- International Energy Agency may revise downward its forecast of 21% fall in global energy sector investment
- International Energy Agency says 2050 baseline scenario is for oil demand to rise 70% - equivalent to five times today’s production of Saudi Arabia
- International Energy Agency says carbon dioxide capture and storage is one of the most promising technological solutions to curb greenhouse gas emissions
- International Energy Agency says nearly nearly 50% of global electricity supplies will have to come from renewable energy if carbon emissions are to be halved by 2050
- International Energy Agency says oil demand could reach 2008 levels in 2012 or maybe after 2014; Crude rises to 8-month high of $73
- International Energy Agency says oil demand will fall for a second year in 2009 - - the first back-to-back contraction since 1983
- International Energy Agency says world crude-oil demand to fall for the first time in 25 years
- International Energy Agency says world energy demand will more than double by 2030; Meeting IPCC emissions cut of 50% by 2050 would require huge amount of investment and unprecedented technological breakthroughs
- International Energy Agency sees continued oil market tightness over Medium Term; Developing countries total consumption will equal mature economies by 2015
- International Energy Agency supports liberalisation of European Union electricity and gas markets
- International Energy Agency warns of potential risks to the economic recovery from high energy costs
- International Energy Outlook 2009: World energy consumption projected to rise 44% from 2006 to 2030; Carbon emissions to jump more than 39% without new policies
- International Financial Data Services acquires stake in Irish software firm Percana
- International house price comparison index for 2007 ranks Dublin, Ireland and Beverly Hills, California for world's most expensive comparable management level family homes
- International House Price Comparisons 2009: Dublin plummets but remains expensive; US average for management level house is $363,401; Most inexpensive at $112,675
- International housing survey says UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand have no affordable major urban markets
- International Monetary Fund cuts its forecasts for 2008 and 2009 world economic growth
- International Monetary Fund is planning to inject $250 billion into the global economy
- International Monetary Fund lifts its global growth forecasts for the next 18 months
- International Monetary Fund Managing Director calls for global solution to the US financial crisis; Coordination of reform effort "is a job for the IMF"
- International Monetary Fund says a year after the subprime crash global financial markets are “fragile” and risk remains “elevated.”
- International students generate €430m for Irish economy
- International study shows Irish housing affordability up but only affordable markets are in US and Canada
- InterTrade Ireland’s Seedcorn Business Competition offers €360,000 prize fund; Claims companies on the island raise €95.4m of additional equity investment
- InterTradeIreland €10m cross-border business programme launched
- Investor Blinks After Staredown
- Investor sentiment has double-dipped on outlook for global economy; Move out of US and into Emerging Markets
- Investor's Banks Hold the Bag
- Investors demonstrating growing belief in a robust global recovery
- Investors Dump Mall, Industrial REITs
- Investors Eye Mall Owner's Performance
- Investors Lost It All in Memphis
- Investors Return to Prague
- Investors Say 'No' to Colony
- Investors seek refuge in US markets; Confidence in both China and the Eurozone dips
- Investors Win on REIT Path
- IONA Technologies reports first quarter 2008 revenue growth of 6 percent to $16.4 million and a a loss of $5.1 million
- Ireland - - a land of beggars on horseback where the buck stops nowhere
- Ireland 2009: People of the Year, Brass Neck and Golden Fleece Awards!
- Ireland and Japan; the Human Cost of broken political systems
- Ireland and leadership at a time of crisis
- Ireland and leaving the Euro: 10 questions for pub-stool economists
- Ireland and UK had worst global commercial property returns in 2008; Boston’s John Hancock Tower price plunges 50% in less than 3 years
- Ireland exiting the euro and the risk of setting the Irish economy on fire
- Ireland falls in broadband rankings; Denmark heads the 30 member countries of OECD; Irish penetration less than half Denmark's
- Ireland gets 10th ranking for most attractive destinations for foreign direct investment (FDI) in Europe in 2009; Irish FDI employment back to 1998 levels
- Ireland has achieved 24 places in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA; Top Irish company Lincor gets 35th ranking
- Ireland has banned upwardly-only rent review clauses in business leases; Claim move makes investment in Irish commercial property unattractive
- Ireland has the highest electricity prices in Europe for businesses and domestic consumers
- Ireland heads European binge drinking ranking; Daily drinking among the 55+ people in Europe suggests chronic disease risk
- Ireland implements 2007 EU Directive on shareholder rights
- Ireland in firing line as Obama targets overseas tax breaks
- Ireland in group of innovation followers with above average performance according to 2009 European Innovation Scoreboard
- Ireland is gaining a reputation for world-class research -- more spin or substance?
- Ireland is second in Europe for shopping centre space per capita; Chartered Surveyors say change was underway in Irish commercial leases before upward only rent reviews ban
- Ireland named as one of the countries that facilitate tax dodging
- Ireland ranked fourth most expensive country in the world; EU proposes ways to deliver lower food prices in Europe
- Ireland was still ranked second richest in EU in 2008 but caution with data is merited
- Ireland will again lead Christmas household spending in Europe - at €1,354 per head with the UK in second place at €803
- Ireland's Broadband penetration rises to 58.9% in June 2008 compared with Denmark at 86%
- Ireland's budget deficit could rise to 24% of GDP in 2010 following Eurostat ruling
- Ireland's business-as-usual professional fee 'cartels'
- Ireland's Choice: Reform or risking status as a failed rich State
- Ireland's CO2 emissions fell 1.4% in period 2005-2007
- Ireland's economic woes pushes it out of Top 20 of most attractive global countries for venture capital and private equity investment
- Ireland's Exchequer deficit expanded to €8.4 billion in August signalling sharp deterioration in the Irish public finances
- Ireland's ISEQ rose 27% in 2009 - - back to April 1997 level; Index at 30% of 2007 peak; CRH at 34% of market
- Ireland's sovereign credit rating lowered by Standard & Poor’s for the second time in 2009; Move triggered by Anglo Irish losses and NAMA
- Ireland, Eamonn Gilmore and free lunch economics
- Ireland, Greece and leaving the euro
- Ireland, North and South: A Statistical Profile: Average house prices in RoI more than trebled between 1996 and 2006 while NI prices more than doubled
- Ireland: A "smart" economy in food better than pie-in-the-sky aspirations?
- Ireland: A jobs crisis in search of a national strategy
- Ireland: Where the buck stops nowhere - - Irish banking inquiry, DCC and a cast of Pontius Pilates
- Ireland’s Environment 2008; Environmental Protection Agency says little headway in meeting huge challenges of climate change, water quality and waste management
- Ireland’s National Debt at €84.0bn in June - - 80% held by foreign investors; National Pensions Fund made 2.3% return in H1 2010; Ireland to borrow €18.5bn+ in 2010 to keep country going
- Ireland’s SME owners working longer hours
- Ireland’s universities TCD and UCD in research alliance aim to create new Nokia; Genesis of old Nokia or Ryanair wasn't in a lab
- Irish Economy: ESRI presents grim outlook; Job losses of up to 117,000 in 2009 - more than 4 times worst year of 1980's
- Irish new private cars licensed in December fell 28.9%; Sales plunged 63% in 2009 to the lowest since 1987
- Irish "bad bank" NAMA set to become one of world's biggest repositories of toxic loans
- Irish "Budget Perspectives" 2010 Conference: Property tax could account for fairness/ability to pay; Social partnership is interest/pressure group model of decision making
- Irish '"bad bank" plan could force bigger loan losses; Deutsche Bank chief warns on narrow statistical systems to measure risk; Swedish model as template?
- Irish and Eurozone Competitiveness Indicators 1999 - 2009
- Irish and UK airspace open from 2100 hours Tuesday night
- Irish Annual Consumer Price Inflation increased to 5.0% in June
- Irish annual electricity consumption in the residential sector has surged on a per capita basis by 60% since 1990
- Irish annual factory factory gate prices down 3.5% in September; Fall in dollar big factor
- Irish annual Industrial Production fell 13% in December 2008
- Irish annual industrial production increased by 3.8% in April 2009; US-owned chemical sector up 35.9%
- Irish annual industrial production plunged 13.9% in August 2009 after 8.9% rise in July; Annual sales dipped 23.6%
- Irish Annual Manufacturing Prices down 2.8% in year to June; Up 0.9%
- Irish Annual Manufacturing Production decreased by 1.3% in year to April 2008
- Irish Association of Investment Managers signals Flavin should resign as executive chairman of Irish public company DCC
- Irish auctioneers survey shows house prices down 16.9% in H1 2009; Second-hand apartment prices plunged 19.7%
- Irish average annual GNP growth in 2011-2014 forecast to be 3.3%; Eurozone GDP growth in same timeframe predicted to be 2%
- Irish average earnings in 2007 were at €37,726; Pay at ESB and Bord Gáis at €71,572; Public/private gap was 48% ex-pensions
- Irish average national house prices down 11.1% in first nine months of 2009; Prices are back to Christmas 2003 levels
- Irish average national house prices fell 9.7% in year to February 2009; Index based on small volume
- Irish average national house prices fell by 0.6% in June according to permanent tsb / ESRI House Price Index ; Prices down by 9.7% in year to June but survey likely understating actual decline
- Irish average national house prices fell by 1.7% in Q2 2010; Fall in H1 2010 was 6.4%; Average price is at 2001 level
- Irish Aviation Authority says Dublin Airport will be closed until 1900 hours Tuesday; Renewed eruption of Icelandic volcano
- Irish bank lending set to contract in 2009 irrespective of bank recapitalisations - Davy
- Irish Banking Crash: Cowardice a common trait among the damned "best and brightest" but cowards are usually the winners
- Irish Banking Crash: Two official reports detail monumental political, regulatory and business management failures
- Irish Banking Federation publishes reassurance on mortgage repayments on principal private residence
- Irish banks agree consumer debt guidelines protocol
- Irish Banks' Recapitalisation Day: State may provide two-thirds of annual tax revenues of €32bn to five of the six Irish lenders
- Irish Banks' Recapitilisation Day: State may provide two-thirds of annual tax revenues of €32bn to five of the six Irish lenders
- Irish based ISEQ quoted companies Pension Deficit 12-14% of market capitalisation
- Irish broadband subscribers can rarely access the maximum connection speeds advertised; National broadband scheme delayed for further 22 months
- Irish broadband subscriptions rose by 6% during the first quarter of 2009
- Irish Budget 2009 Analysis: Lenihan's "call to patriotic action"
- Irish Budget 2009 Comment: Spreading the real pain of political self-interest, incompetence, negligence and laziness
- Irish Budget 2009: Lenihan expected to present toughest Budget since 1983
- Irish Budget 2009: Economists to warn against short-termism in either taxation or spending at ESRI conference; IBEC says without further measures exchequer deficit in 2009 will be 10% of GDP - the highest since 1986
- Irish Budget 2009: Government estimate of 2009 deficit almost €15bn - before Budget changes
- Irish Budget 2009: Lots of taxes but no serious reform; The rainy day has arrived and the cupboard is bare
- Irish Budget 2009: Reactions from Economists, Accountants and Various interests/organisations
- Irish Budget 2010: Economy is heading back to 2004/2005 size; Household spending model may be in process of permanent change
- Irish Budget 2010: Interest payments on the national debt will increase by €2bn to €4.6bn in 2010
- Irish Budget 2010: Jellyfish politics rule as Cowen sinks in fudge; Awaits "transformational" public sector reform plan from trade unions
- Irish Budget 2010: Lenihan confirms spending cuts of €4 billion; Details of Budget spending and tax changes
- Irish Budget 2010: Money value of activity in Irish economy to be massive 32% lower in 2010 than was expected in December 2007
- Irish Budget 2010: Pre-Budget Outlook says "worst of...decline may have passed"; Taxes back to 2003 levels - - current spending up 70%+
- Irish Budget 2010: Reactions from accountants, economists and other vested interests to Budget
- Irish Budget April 2009: Economist Pat McArdle says: "Government funks the big decisions"; Reactions of vested interests in politics, business and the professions
- Irish Budget April 2009: Lenihan to inflict mainly tax pain for hopefully long-term gain; Speech begins at about 3:45 p.m.
- Irish Building and Construction Output down by 21.6% first quarter 2008
- Irish building materials group Grafton facing most challenging trading conditions in decades in 2009
- Irish building materials group Kingspan to buyback 10 per cent of the company's shares
- Irish building tender prices down 17.3% in 12 months -- costs back to 1999 levels
- Irish Business Sentiment improves in Q2 2010; Recovery stronger in exporting sectors than in domestic economy
- Irish business sentiment shows "faint glimmers of light"; General Electric sees “glimmers of hope” in the world economy
- Irish business survey says rising costs and credit crunch now taking a significant toll
- Irish businesses optimistic about economic outlook for the first time in two years
- Irish buy-back scheme for Bulgarian Black Sea properties
- Irish car sales fell 52.4% in June
- Irish carbon tax proposed - - Eco-taxes in double benefit; Raising revenue while appearing to save the planet
- Irish Central Bank declared its impotence before launch of the euro; Why Spain's biggest banks survived huge housing boom
- Irish commercial property capital values down and rents up in first quarter according to the Jones Lang LaSalle Index
- Irish commercial property capital values tumbled 7.2% in second quarter of 2008
- Irish commercial property capital values tumbled in Q4 2008 - down -37.2% in 2008; More than 5 years of UK growth eroded in 18 months
- Irish commercial property investment at virtual standstill in recent months; Irish investment in UK property plunged in first six months of 2008
- Irish commercial property market capital value plunged 42.7% in 12-months to June 2009
- Irish commercial property prices fell in first quarter; Returns were the worst since 1995
- Irish commercial property prices fell in first quarter; Returns were the worst since 1995
- Irish commercial property returns fell in Q2 2010 after a slight rise in the first quarter
- Irish commercial property returns positive in Q1 2010 - - down 56.3% from peak; Dublin has Europe's highest office vacancy rate at 21.9%
- Irish commercial property returns tumbled -13.9% in the third quarter; Year to date total returns stand at -21.2%
- Irish companies must prepare now for "radical reform in corporate governance" heralded by Companies Consolidation & Reform Bill - William Fry
- Irish construction activity continued to decline sharply in February
- Irish construction activity continued to decline sharply in July despite rate of contraction easing
- Irish Construction activity continued to decrease in May; Strongest optimism in thirty-eight months
- Irish construction activity continued to fall sharply in January but at slowest pace in five months
- Irish construction activity continued to slide in October
- Irish construction activity fell in June for 37th straight month: Pace of decline eased
- Irish construction activity fell to new low in May; Substantial deterioration in performance reported as Housing, Commercial and Civil Engineering activity slumped
- Irish construction activity in December suffered considerable deterioration in operating conditions
- Irish construction data for January signalled a further sharp deterioration in operating conditions
- Irish construction industry employment fell 13.8% in year to April 2008 - a total of about 39,000 job losses
- Irish Construction March PMI shows considerable deterioration in operating conditions; Jobs were cut at series-record pace during month
- Irish construction PMI contracted at accelerated rate in September
- Irish construction PMI data in June signal further record falls in activity, new orders and employment; Commercial activity contracted at a record rate
- Irish Construction PMI: April data signalled record falls in activity, new orders and employment
- Irish construction sector activity continued to fall sharply at the end of 2009
- Irish construction sector activity continued to fall sharply in November as new business declined at the fastest pace since May 2009
- Irish construction sector business conditions continued to deteriorate sharply in April; Decline in commercial activity appears to have bottomed out
- Irish construction sector continued to deteriorate in June but sentiment improved
- Irish construction sector continued to deteriorate sharply in May but "worst has passed"
- Irish Construction Sector contracted rapidly in July as pessimism increased and cost inflation accelerated
- Irish construction sector posted another sharp fall in employment in August
- Irish Construction: Job shedding intensified in October; Steep decline in commercial projects
- Irish Construction: Numbers employed down 11.7% in March; 50% of building firms not building
- Irish Construction: Numbers employed down 14.8% in year to May
- Irish Construction: Sharp falls in activity and new business; Input prices decline for first time in five years
- Irish Construction: Steep fall in new business led to further decline in activity in April
- Irish Consumer Confidence Index rose in April
- Irish consumer confidence weakened in July
- Irish Consumer Inflation falls sharply to 2.5% in November; Ireland is on path to deflation in 2009 for first time since 1946
- Irish Consumer Price Annual Inflation increased by 4.7% in May
- Irish Consumer Price deflation accelerated in July to annual rate of 5.9%; Biggest decline since 1931
- Irish Consumer Price Inflation fell to 4.4% in July following big drop in clothing, footwear and furniture prices due to summer sales
- Irish Consumer Price Inflation falls sharply to 1.1% in December; Inflation to turn negative in January and remain a minus through 2009
- Irish Consumer Price Inflation fell by 3.5% in the year to April
- Irish Consumer Price Inflation fell slightly to annual 4.3% rate in August
- Irish Consumer Price Inflation fell to 4.0% in October
- Irish Consumer Price Inflation in September unchanged at 4.3%
- Irish Consumer Prices fall by 0.1% in the year to January; First annual deflation since 1960
- Irish Consumer Prices fall by 0.9% in the year to June
- Irish Consumer Prices fall by 1.7% in the year to February - - greatest decline since Q1 1960; Services fell 0.7% in year; Goods fell by 2.8%
- Irish Consumer Prices fell 2.6% in the year to March; Inflation ex-mortgage interest rose by 0.2% in month - - down by 0.3% in year
- Irish consumer prices fell 3.1% in the year to March
- Irish consumer prices fell 3.9% in the year to January; Annual deflation began in January 2009
- Irish Consumer Prices fell 5.7% in the year to November - - deflation eased
- Irish consumer prices fell 6.5% in the year to September; Deflation deepened to steepest level since 1922
- Irish consumer prices fell 6.5% in the year to September; Deflation deepened to steepest level since early 1930's
- Irish consumer prices fell 6.6% in the year to October; Deflation deepened to steepest level since 1922
- Irish Consumer Prices fell by 4.7% in the year to May 2009; Rate was down 1.2% excluding mortgage interest falls
- Irish Consumer Prices fell by 5.0% in the year to December 2009 - - first full-year decline since 1931
- Irish Consumer Prices rose 0.4% in August - - annual deflation at 5.9%
- Irish Consumer Prices up 0.2% in April - - down 2.1% in year to April
- Irish Consumer sentiment improved in September
- Irish Consumer Sentiment improved in September
- Irish consumer sentiment in June reached strongest level since October 2007
- Irish Consumer Sentiment Index fell in July to the lowest since the survey began in 1996
- Irish Consumer Sentiment Index fell in June to its lowest level since 1996
- Irish Consumer Sentiment Index fell in May
- Irish Consumer Sentiment Index fell in October
- Irish Consumer Sentiment Index fell slightly in November
- Irish Consumer Sentiment Index holds steady in March
- Irish Consumer Sentiment Index improved in November
- Irish Consumer Sentiment Index improves in December; Austin Hughes asks if average consumer is oblivious to gloomy media message on economy?
- Irish Consumer Sentiment Index rose in June
- Irish Consumer Sentiment Index rose in March
- Irish Consumer Sentiment Index rose slightly in August
- Irish Consumer Sentiment Index was flat in May
- Irish Consumer Sentiment Index was marginally lower in December 2009
- Irish Consumer Sentiment plunged in April
- Irish Consumer Sentiment rose in January
- Irish Consumer Sentiment rose in October
- Irish Consumer Sentiment weakened in August
- Irish Consumer Sentiment weakened in February
- Irish consumer sentiment weakened in February
- Irish consumers spent €2.6 billion more on alcohol and cigarettes than food in 2007; Household spending on alcohol more than 3 times EU27 average
- Irish consumers will spend on average 22% less this Christmas but double level in countries such as UK, Germany and France
- Irish Continental reports improved performance in H1 2008 but warns on price rises because of fuel costs
- Irish Credit Review Office: Bank of Ireland and Allied Irish Bank each to advance annual credit of €3bn to viable SMEs over next 2 years
- Irish Credit Unions urged to switch from investment to lending
- Irish deflation eased in February as consumer prices fell at an annual rate of 3.2%
- Irish developer Seán Dunne clarifies New York Times interview report
- Irish Director of Corporate Enforcement says High Court Inspectors best route to investigate DCC-Fyffes insider trading case
- Irish directors’ pay rises by 12% in 2007; Total remuneration up by over 30% - Fixed salaries for executives in the US up 4%; European rises in range 3.5% to 7.5%
- Irish directors’ pay rises by 12% in 2007; Total remuneration up by over 30% - Fixed salaries for executives in the US up 4%; European rises in range 3.5% to 7.5%
- Irish drinks industry faces "major crisis" as alcohol sales plunge in September
- Irish drinks Industry group says 1,500 pubs, clubs, hotels and restaurants have shut their doors in past five years
- Irish Earnings: Average earnings grew 4.4% in the industrial sector and 6.3% in the financial sector in 2007 - Jobs expanded by 1,800 and 7,200
- Irish economists call on the Government to reconsider the "bad bank" NAMA project
- Irish Economy - Putting Brass Knocker on Barn Door: Cowen to launch pre-Christmas break "framework" plan; Long-fingers serious reform
- Irish Economy 2008: AIB Bank says Economy is facing significant challenges in 2008/2009; Tough budgets are required to maintain the public finances in a healthy condition
- Irish Economy 2009: The Ideas Campaign seek people’s ideas to stimulate economic recovery
- Irish Economy 2009: Balancing the Budget by improving the public sector
- Irish Economy 2009: Central Bank says GNP will fall by 4.75% in 2009
- Irish Economy 2009: Cowed Cowen promises "fightback" from bewildered Government
- Irish Economy 2009: Cowen says Ireland facing most difficult global conditions in 70 years; Little point in looking back at what might have been anticipated or avoided
- Irish Economy 2009: Cowen says Irish standard of living likely to drop by 10-12% in coming years; However, that is the estimate for the lucky ones
- Irish Economy 2009: ESRI says hard to overstate difficult year; Most of the burden of fiscal adjustment on higher earners
- Irish Economy 2009: ICTU and IBEC in driving seat should press for reforms; Cowen's framework a short-term band-aid fix
- Irish Economy 2009: Inspired political leadership ready to take power in Washington as Slow-motion remains mode in Dublin
- Irish Economy 2009: Ireland experiencing unprecedented contraction in output following earlier unsustainable construction-driven surge in activity
- Irish Economy 2009: Ireland is probably past the worst of the recession- - Davy
- Irish Economy 2009: Irrational exuberance of the boom gives way to counterpart in grim times; Realists should prepare for decade of slow global growth
- Irish Economy 2009: Like looking for a needle in a haystack - - Pat McArdle, Ulster Bank
- Irish Economy 2009: Pet suggestions for saving the economy - Pat McArdle, Ulster Bank
- Irish Economy 2009: Political paralysis fuels public protests; Pressure should focus on the Greens rather than damage the economy further through strikes
- Irish Economy 2009: Reform Irish style - - respond only to a crisis...sorry...a dire crisis
- Irish Economy 2009: Talk to Joe! - - the asymmetric national agony aunt for confusing times - - and Cowen's €2 billion Budget
- Irish Economy 2009: The balkanisation of Irish society
- Irish Economy 2009: The Bulldozer at Bay and Benchmarks for Brutal year
- Irish Economy 2009: Threatening to quit Euro would be slow-motion national suicide; Leeway of €100 billion in borrowings before becoming lemmings
- Irish Economy 2009: Toxic assets in Politics and Banks and the Moral Equivalent of War
- Irish Economy 2009: Ulster Bank economists say GNP to fall 7.9% in 2009 and 3.4% in 2010
- Irish Economy 2009: Yes to optimism but on foundation of substance not spoof
- Irish Economy 2010: A year of freedom from fear?
- Irish Economy 2011-2015: NCB Stockbrokers forecasts cautious annual GNP growth of 3%
- Irish Economy contracts in First Quarter: GDP declines by 1.5% with small increase in GNP
- Irish economy faces into a bleak 2009 and further contraction in 2010 - Davy
- Irish economy finally out of recession; Sequential real growth of at least 1% probable for next few quarters
- Irish economy is forecast to contract by 3.0% this year but will return to growth of 2.0% in 2011 - - measured in GNP terms
- Irish economy is in recession following contractions of GDP in both the first and second quarters of 2008; First full year contraction since 1983 expected
- Irish Economy losing on average 712 jobs every week; Redundancies for the year to October at 32,076 jobs
- Irish economy maybe set for high growth or low growth by 2015 says ESRI: Full employment in prospect or maybe not
- Irish economy maybe set for high growth or low growth by 2015 says ESRI: Full employment in prospect or maybe not
- Irish economy on auto-pilot as confidence is in dire need of bolstering
- Irish Economy Post-Crisis: Significant change? Glacial change? More of the same?
- Irish economy remained in recession in Q2 2009; GNP fell 0.5% in quarter and 11.6% in year to June
- Irish Economy: Goodbody forecasts a return to modest growth in 2011 after 15% plunge in GDP in 2008-2010
- Irish Economy: IMF say after steep slump, Ireland is experiencing a nascent recovery; Return to high growth rates of “Celtic Tiger” unlikely
- Irish Economy: A citizen sick of an economist's "whingey, whiney voice"
- Irish Economy: Achieving economic success requires more than investing in creativity
- Irish Economy: Ahern, Harney, McCreevy, Cowen and the other individuals/groups with responsibility for the economic crash
- Irish Economy: Bank of Ireland forecasts 0% GDP growth in 2008; 1.5% in 2009 - "after extraordinary slowdown"
- Irish Economy: Brian Cowen in the shoes of Herbert Hoover? - Another review group for Irish public spending planned
- Irish Economy: Central Bank says GNP will contract 1.5% in 2010; Recovery from H2 2010 will trigger GNP growth of 2.4% in 2011
- Irish Economy: Central Bank cuts 2008 growth forecast to 0.3%
- Irish Economy: Central bank forecasts recessions in 2008 and 2009; Hurley says bad debts and loan losses were not the key issues in discussions on State guarantee for Irish bank system
- Irish Economy: Central Bank says 2008 growth will be "significantly less than 1%"
- Irish Economy: Central Bank says growth will resume in H2 2010; GNP to fall 2% in year - - GDP to dip 1%
- Irish Economy: Central Bank says no recovery until 2011; Property-related loans at 61% of total advances in March 2009
- Irish Economy: Central Bank says recovery unlikely until 2011; Contraction of 8.3% in 2009 and 3% in 2010
- Irish Economy: Comment - Cowen calls for "political will and action" on day recession is confirmed.
- Irish Economy: Cowen banks on US firms which already provide 90% of Ireland's exports with €500m for new venture capital funds
- Irish Economy: Cowen says economic circumstances toughest facing country in 100 years; "Now is the time for us to pull together”
- Irish Economy: Cowen says he has nothing to apologise for; McCreevy says economy today light years ahead of "dark 70s and 80s"
- Irish Economy: Cowen says his policies will bring “rapid growth” in 2010; Rejects “dead-end politics of the past” but provides no credible vision of change for the future
- Irish Economy: Davy cuts 2008 growth to 1% and 2009 to 2% because of tighter credit availability, exchange rate appreciation and no interest rate relief
- Irish Economy: Davy expects recession in both 2008 and 2009
- Irish Economy: Davy forecasts GNP growth of 4% in 2011; Ireland to exit recession in Q1 2010
- Irish Economy: Davy says economy will shrink by 3.5% in 2009 - the biggest plunge since 1950's; National debt to soar
- Irish Economy: Economic traitor cries treason; Slow-motion Government hits panic button
- Irish Economy: Economist proposes 10-point plan that is a menu without prices
- Irish Economy: Economists announce new dawn; "Kickstarting" growth from behind a desk! ECB director terms them delusionists
- Irish Economy: Ernst & Young says Irish fiscal deficit will remain above 5% of GDP until at least 2014
- Irish Economy: ESRI forecasts GDP growth of 2.75% in 2011 with GNP at 2.25%; Budget deficit to fall to 10.5% of GDP; Expected Exchequer shortfall is €19.9bn
- Irish Economy: ESRI forecasts recessions in 2008 and 2009; Recommends deficit be held at 5.5% of GDP in 2009 - requiring toughest Budget since 1983
- Irish Economy: ESRI says economy can grow rapidly in 2011-2015 period or maybe not; World economy must recover significant momentum by 2011
- Irish Economy: ESRI says modest growth will return in H2 2010; Budget deficit will be -12.8% of GDP in 2010 despite big cutbacks
- Irish Economy: ESRI says recession to end in mid-2010; GNP per head will be back to 2001 level as "very modest rate of growth" emerges
- Irish Economy: Goodbody revises 2011 growth to 2.8%; Cost of banking crisis may amount to €33bn or 20% of GDP
- Irish Economy: Goodbody says at least €9 billion more in public money may have to be provided to Irish banks as bad debts rise to €28 billion over three years
- Irish Economy: Goodbody says economy will contract 2.2% in 2008; House prices may fall by 30% from their peak by the end of 2009
- Irish Economy: Goodbody says GDP will plunge 4% in 2009; Budget forecasts too optimistic; Number of years before trend growth is achieved again
- Irish Economy: Goodbody says recovery will be U-shaped; Private sector debt levels will increase to 225% of GDP in 2009 - - among highest of developed world
- Irish Economy: Green Gormley jumps on anti-bank bandwagon; Wants accountable bankers but supports unaccountable Cabinet colleagues
- Irish Economy: Home Truths on Irish Exports as Ireland faces a changed global economy in the decade ahead
- Irish Economy: IBEC revises economic forecasts upwards; GNP predicted to grow by 1.6% in 2011
- Irish Economy: IBEC revises forecasts for 2010 and 2011
- Irish Economy: IBEC says credibility of corrective action must go beyond the public sector finances
- Irish Economy: IMF says Irish banks face losses of €35 billion by end 2010 - - 20% of GDP; "Modestly-paced recovery" after 2010; "Decline in wages will need to be sustained"
- Irish Economy: IMF warns of “consolidation fatigue”; Ireland faces relatively modest growth potential and high unemployment
- Irish Economy: Ireland is faced with new challenges as the US financial sector faces retrenchment and transformation
- Irish Economy: Ireland lost almost 160,00 jobs in the year to March 2009 - - the equivalent of two full Croke Parks
- Irish Economy: Ireland outside Euro during financial crisis would mean further market fall of 50%; Interest rates above 10%; Inflation in double digits
- Irish Economy: Irish Political and Business leadership and the cojones to bat straight
- Irish Economy: Keynes advice for Cowen when capital development of a country becomes by-product of a casino
- Irish Economy: Lee suggests longer adjustment period for public finances
- Irish Economy: Lenihan revises 2010 GDP growth forecast to 1% and GNP is expected to contract by 0.75%
- Irish Economy: Lenihan says mini-Budget may be necessary - Euro was major cause of Irish housing bubble
- Irish Economy: Middle-income earners are the hardest hit - - Pat McArdle, Ulster Bank
- Irish Economy: Minister Brian Lenihan says - "Our record speaks for itself"
- Irish Economy: Ministers to brief social partners on baby-steps' economic "recovery" plan as TDs prepare for 40-day Christmas break
- Irish Economy: Morgan Stanley scenario analyses on Ireland's fiscal sustainability; Legacy of banking crisis likely to be long-lasting if not permanent increase in net public indebtedness
- Irish Economy: NCB Stockbrokers - - "we are living away beyond our means"
- Irish Economy: NCB upgrades Irish GDP performance
- Irish Economy: NESC says there will not be a return to the economy which prevailed from 1990 to 2008
- Irish Economy: No exit from recession in Q1 2010 as GNP fell in quarter while GDP rose 2.7%; Current account deficit was €1.62bn
- Irish Economy: Obama's call for a government that "works"; Kennedy says value added key metric for measuring impact of services exports
- Irish Economy: Political disarray, panic, incompetence, a credibility gap and five-star "cradle to grave" socialism
- Irish Economy: Political spin, jobs and IDA Ireland
- Irish Economy: Proposals on developing coherent policy action to deal with the economic emergency
- Irish Economy: Public sector pay cuts to the fore in 2009 - Pat McArdle, Ulster Bank
- Irish Economy: Report says job numbers in the Republic of Ireland will not recover to their peak 2007 level until 2021 compared to 2018 in Northern Ireland
- Irish Economy: Representatives of Official Ireland move to Glenties, Donegal in search of fixes
- Irish Economy: State bank guarantee tolls the death knell of the Celtic Tiger; Fairytale ends debunking the myths and exposing the reality of foundations built on quicksand
- Irish Economy: Taoiseach asks social partners for ideas on solving the economic crisis
- Irish Economy: The 2001 economic consensus that paved the road to economic ruin
- Irish Economy: The durability of stroke politics and searching for the villains of economic collapse
- Irish Economy: Three Irish economists each have an opportunity to make a difference of consequence during the financial crisis
- Irish Economy: Ulster Bank Quarterly Economic Outlook - GNP growth to contract by 0.3% in 2008; Slowdown to be more prolonged than previously expected - economy should expand in 2009 by 0.5%
- Irish Economy: Ulster Bank revises up GNP forecast for 2010; Expects total house price fall of 45% from 2007 peak
- Irish Economy: Ulster Bank says GNP to fall 4% in 2009; Modest recovery in 2010; Deflation for first time since 1946; 85,000 more job losses
- Irish Economy: Unemployment and the fear of running out of money in the modern economy
- Irish Economy: US will remain very important to Ireland's economic progress but a new approach is badly needed
- Irish Economy: We are in State of National Emergency; Media comment on leaving Euro caused damage to reputation overseas - - Pat McArdle
- Irish Economy: New forum for debate on Irish economic policy launched
- Irish Emergency Budget 2009: "For years we have been bled white - now it's payback time" on the road to perdition
- Irish Emergency Budget 2009: ESRI says structural deficit is in the range 6 to 8% of GDP
- Irish Emergency Budget 2009: IBEC says wages require 10% cut; Social welfare rates 3% cut; Economy could only bear €3bn net adjustment
- Irish Emergency Budget: Government takes 3% of GDP from economy - - at its weakest in a century; Summary of tax, spending and economic forecasts
- Irish Emergency Budget: Tax hikes; Bank toxic loan plan to double national debt; Reforms pending - - awaiting reports as usual!
- Irish Emergency/ Mini Budget 2009: Lenihan expected to announce plans for a "bad bank" for toxic property debts
- Irish employment fell 174,300 in year to June 2009; Unemployment rate rose to 11.6%; Non-Irish nationals in employment fell 59,600
- Irish employment fell 184,700 in the year to September 2009
- Irish Employment fell 25,000 in Q3 2008 - the first annual decline in employment since 1991; Employment trends similar to the 1980s
- Irish energy affordability needs to be addressed Bord Gáis says; Retail energy prices in natural gas and electricity are set to rise significantly later this year
- Irish Exchequer deficit at €7.9bn end-May 2010 compared to €10.59bn in the same period in 2009
- Irish Exchequer deficit for year to October was €11 billion
- Irish Exchequer deficit rose to €24.6 billion in 2009; Tax revenues at €33.04 billion - - down 19% on 2008 and back to 2003 levels
- Irish Exchequer deficit was €3.7 billion in first quarter of 2009; Tax revenue down 23%; Pre-Budget deficit at -12¾% of GDP
- Irish Exchequer figures for July show that the public finances plunged deeper into the red in July to €6.7 billion
- Irish Exchequer Returns data show deficit of €3.95bn in first quarter 2010; National debt interest payments rise to €733m
- Irish Exchequer Returns deficit in first half of 2009 surges to €14.7 billion - - up from €5.6 billion in H1 2008
- Irish Exchequer Returns February 2009: Government says figures “are disappointing and it is already clear that tax revenues in 2009 are under pressure”
- Irish Exchequer returns for 2008 show tax shortfall of €8 billion and a total deficit of €12.7 billion
- Irish Exchequer Returns for August show deficit of €18.7bn; Tax receipts improve due to change in corporation tax payment dates
- Irish Exchequer returns for February show deficit of €2.4bn
- Irish Exchequer returns for January show tax receipts down 17.7% compared with January 2008
- Irish Exchequer Returns for May show tax shortfall of €1.2 billion; Figures show considerable deterioration
- Irish Exchequer Returns for November show deficit of €22 billion
- Irish Exchequer Returns for September show deficit of €9.4 billion compared with €3.1 billion in September 2007
- Irish Exchequer returns for the first four months of 2010, show a deficit of €6.96bn; Interest on national debt was €1.8bn
- Irish Exchequer Returns May 2009: Deficit of €10.6 billion; Tax shortfall in five months falls to 21% compared with 2008
- Irish Exchequer returns show surge in the public deficit to €5.65 billion in first half of 2008; Official economic forecast cut to 0.5%
- Irish Exchequer returns show surge in the public deficit to €5.65 billion in first half of 2008; Official economic forecast cut to 0.5%
- Irish Exchequer Returns: Deficit of €16.4 billion in the first seven months of 2009
- Irish Exchequer Returns: Deficit of €16.4 billion in the first seven months of 2009
- Irish Exchequer Returns: Deficit of €747m in January as tax revenue plunges 19%
- Irish Exchequer Returns: Tax revenue down 24% in year to April 2009
- Irish Expert Group on Mortgage Arrears and Personal Debt publishes report
- Irish Exporters Association calls for zero inflation in the Public Sector for the next three years
- Irish Exporters Association criticises plans for another Government Task Force to look at ways to close down Dublin Port
- Irish Exporters Association says exports in 2009 grew 1%; Forecasts growth of 2% in 2010; Eurozone Ireland's main trading partner
- Irish Exporters call for €1billion export stimulus package to save 40,000 jobs
- Irish Exporters of Year 2009: E. Flahavan and Sons and Guinness- Diageo Ireland winners
- Irish exports fell 1% in November - - down 14% in 12 months; Imports up 6% in month - - down 18% in 12 months
- Irish exports increased by 6% in April boosted by US-owned chemical sector accounting for 60% of goods exports
- Irish exports show a return to growth in H1 2009 boosted by US-owned life sciences sector which accounts for 56% of merchandise exports
- Irish exports to fall 13% in 2009; Services to drop 20%; UK to take 53% of Irish-owned exports; Merchandise growth camouflaged by US-owned sectors
- Irish factory gate prices fell 2.8% in year to January 2010
- Irish factory gate prices increased by 1.3% in November 2008 as US dollar rose against the euro
- Irish factory gate prices increased by 2.2% in August 2008
- Irish Farm Incomes increased by 18% in 2007 on back of higher milk and cereal prices; Direct payments from the European Union amounted to 84% of average farm income
- Irish farmland prices fall but remain highest in Europe - More than 4 times UK average and 10 times price in France
- Irish Finance Bill 2008: Lenihan publishes Bill to "restore order and stability in the public finances"
- Irish Finance Bill 2009 published; Capital gains tax loophole to be closed
- Irish Finance Bill amendments "a bonus for high tech economy" - ICAI
- Irish financial institutions to provide loan book details to NTMA; Central Bank says property-related loans fall to 61% of total private debt
- Irish Financial Ombudsman claims savings of €45m for consumers since 2005; Complaints up 45% in 2009 because of the recession
- Irish financial regulation and the media
- Irish Financial Regulator publishes booklet on home equity release schemes
- Irish Financial Regulator introduces new rules on disclosure of Directors' Loans following FitzPatrick revelations
- Irish Financial Regulator publishes findings on handling of mortgage arrears/ repossessions; IBF says Ireland's record far superior to UK's
- Irish Financial Regulator publishes First Regular Savings Account Comparisons
- Irish Financial Regulator publishes the Insurance Statistical Review for 2007
- Irish Financial Regulator responds to pressure and orders audits of loans to builders and property developers at Ireland's banks
- Irish Financial Regulator says consumers can make savings of up to €400 on home insurance
- Irish Financial Regulator says financial market turmoil to continue for some time; Tightening of credit is having its greatest impact on those who want to borrow
- Irish Financial regulator says Insurers need to make Travel Insurance Claims Cover for loss or damage to personal items clearer
- Irish Financial Regulator says it has adopted more intensive/intrusive regulatory approach; TCD economist says fixing Irish banks is not going to result in return to banking of the boom times
- Irish Financial Regulator says new home insurance cost comparisons show that consumers can save up to €400 a year for buildings and contents
- Irish Financial Regulator says on review of Unit Linked Whole of Life policies Consumers should know that premiums could change
- Irish Financial Regulator says Quinn Insurances and Sean Quinn Senior are to pay penalties of €3.4 million in respect of breaches of regulatory requirements; Group takes charges of €829 million
- Irish Financial Regulator’s failure to control property bubble contributed to economic crash and consumer wealth losses
- Irish financial sector pay rises were 1.9% above industrial sector in year to Q2 2008; 6,000 industrial jobs lost - 4,000 gained in finance
- Irish Financial Services Ombudsman awards €250,000 to ex-farming couple whose €2m investment fell to €1.6m
- Irish Financial Services Ombudsman calls on Financial Services Providers to improve service
- Irish Financial Services Ombudsman recommends review of all investment products sold to elderly customers since 2006
- Irish Financial Services Ombudsman says complaints from consumers up 28%
- Irish first-time buyer mortgages fell 30% in first half of 2008; UK new mortgages in July were lowest on record; Annual loan growth at 9.6% in Ireland - 6.9% in UK
- Irish food and drink exports declined by 6.5% to €8.16 billion in 2008
- Irish food and drink exports fell 12% in 2009 to €7bn - - accounting for 4.5% of total exports from Ireland; Bord Bia predicts some recovery in 2010
- Irish food group IAWS and Swiss food group Hiestand Holding AG announce the creation of ARYZTA AG
- Irish full-time employment fell by 115,700 in 12 months to Jan/Mar 2010; 112,600 unemployed for longer than 1 year
- Irish full-time employment fell by 193,200 in 2009; Unemployment rate rose to 13.1%
- Irish GDP fell sharply in Q4 2008; Down 7.5% compared with Q4 2007; Economy now same size as 3 years ago
- Irish GDP will expand 0.6% in 2010 and GNP will contract 0.5%
- Irish Gender Inequality: Women work on average work 39 minutes longer per day than men
- Irish gender pay gap mainly related to child rearing responsibilities
- Irish Glass Bottle site loans transferred to NAMA
- Irish Glass Bottle Site: How the State purchased property it already owned!
- Irish GNP down 1.4% but GDP up 0.3% in Q3 2009; Balance of payment deficit improved as imports fell sharply
- Irish GNP plunged at annual 12% rate in first quarter of 2009; Service exports fell; Ireland’s External Debt increased to €1.69 trillion
- Irish goods exports in 2008 - - dominated by US firms - - down 3%; Imports down 10%; Promise of relief for Irish-owned Exporters in April Emergency Budget
- Irish goods exports rose 8% in year to May; Minister lauds "remarkable achievement" of US-owned firms; Claims "strong vindication of the Government’s work"
- Irish goods imports up 12% in year to April 2010 while exports fell 7%
- Irish government finances: Davy says State has lots of options despite "recent hysteria"
- Irish Government guaranteeing liabilities of about €400 billion of 6 financial institutions; CSO says Irish credit institutions and moneymarket funds owed €818 billion overseas in June; National debt was €43 billion
- Irish Government is to invest €4.7m in a new financial mathematics research centre
- Irish government to take controlling 75% stake in Anglo Irish Bank; Provide total of €5.5bn in new capital to the three main banks
- Irish government to take controlling 75% stake in Anglo Irish Bank; Provide total of €5.5bn in new capital to the three main banks
- Irish Government wants pay ceiling of €500,000 for bankers; Report rejects claims huge earning hikes related to hiring problems
- Irish Government welcomes "significant progress" from investment of €1.4bn in Strategy for Science, Technology and Innovation
- Irish GPs flu vaccine pay five times UK counterparts; Commission on Taxation member fees were over €500,000
- Irish Gross Domestic Product and Gross National Product fell 7.1% and 11.3% in 2009 -- the largest decline in output ever recorded in a single year since 1922; Economy back to 2003 level
- Irish Gross National Product (GNP) at constant prices was 4.9% lower in year to September 2008
- Irish group calls for universal State pension similar to the scheme operated by New Zealand
- Irish Health Insurance: Government to support the cost of health insurance for older people via levy
- Irish Health Insurance: Vhi to hike premiums in 2009 by 23%; Quinn Healthcare to hike by average of 16% - Inflation in 2009 may be Negative
- Irish home computer ownership and broadband connection levels continue to rise
- Irish hotel prices down 8% in 2008; More expensive to stay in Galway than Abu Dhabi, Paris, Rome, Stockholm, Barcelona, Tokyo and Munich
- Irish hotels to cut €90m annual rates bill by paying what can be afforded; Room numbers rose from 26,000 in 1996 to 64,500 in 2008
- Irish house asking prices fell 19% in 2009
- Irish house price falls accelerated in January
- Irish house prices fell 3.4% in the second quarter and 7% in H1 2010
- Irish house prices fell by 13.2% in real terms in 2008
- Irish house prices may continue to fall for another 18 months
- Irish House Prices: Asking prices fall 4% in second quarter of 2010; Outside Dublin, unsold stock remains high
- Irish housing market correction "a short-term blip" says IAVI President; Property strong long-term investment with new houses increasing from €6,500 in 1970 to €330,000 in Q2 2007 - a 4,800% increase
- Irish housing rents down 12% in year as supply doubles; Average monthly rent has fallen to €885
- Irish ICT Sector: Skills group proposes incentives to encourage engineering and computer science graduates
- Irish Income/Living Conditions 2008: State benefits accounted for more than 22% of household income; More than 20% of households were in arrears on payments
- Irish Industrial Production fell by 0.8% in January 2009 - - US chemical companies boost activity
- Irish industrial production rose 4.3% in year to June 2009; Growth in US-owned chemical sector at 30.5%
- Irish insolvencies for the first four months of 2009 were 486, compared to 193 for Jan-April 2008
- Irish insolvencies up 27% in first four months of 2010
- Irish insurance group FBD hit by volatility on financial markets
- Irish Insurance Statistical Review 2008: Underwriting profits dropped 83%; Premium income fell 22%
- Irish investment company TVC Holdings reports loss of €18m for the 15 months to the end of March
- Irish investment firm GlobalReach Securities says the international “bear” market is at an end
- Irish Life & Permanent reports profit before tax in 2008 fell to €63 million from €477 million in 2007
- Irish Life & Permanent confirms "exceptional support" to Anglo Irish Bank during September 2008; IL&P removed from S&P's CreditWatch Negative list
- Irish Life & Permanent details exposure to Icelandic banks - shares fall after surge 34%
- Irish Life & Permanent finance director resigns; Chairman “apologised unreservedly” for “mistakes”
- Irish Life & Permanent forecasts much lower loan losses than other Irish banks; Operating profit to fall 30%
- Irish Life & Permanent reports 7% fall in H1 2008 profits
- Irish Life & Permanent reports loss of €310m in 2009; 22% of mortgage accounts in “negative equity”; 7,228 mortgage accounts in arrears for over 90 days
- Irish Life & Permanent says mortgage arrears nearing their peak
- Irish Life & Permanent says new lending down 80%; Dependence on ECB borrowings falls to €7bn
- Irish Life & Permanent says new lending in the first quarter of 2008 was down 15%; Life & Pensions new business has fallen by 20%
- Irish Life & Permanent says new residential mortgage lending at 20% of 2008 levels; Sales at Irish Life in first quarter fell by 41%; Arrears have increased across all loan portfolios
- Irish Life & Permanent says pre-tax operating profits for 2008 are expected to be down to mid to high single digit percent
- Irish Life and Permanent reports operating loss of €51m for H1 2009
- Irish Life Investment Managers warns of “roller-coaster” on investment markets in 2009; Modest recovery in markets expected towards year end
- Irish life science guide to create ‘smart’ jobs and new technologies
- Irish Live Register fell 2,300 to 432,400 in February 2010 likely reflecting emigration
- Irish Live Register fell 3,000 to 422,500 in October - - first fall since January 2007 may reflect emigration
- Irish Live Register in July rises to 226,000 - up 10,600 in month; Highest since July 1998; In year to July 2008 increase of 63,647- up +36.5%
- Irish Live Register increases to 433,000 in March
- Irish Live Register jumped by 10,100 in June; Up 54,448 in year to 220,811 - Biggest jump in claimants in any half-year since 1975
- Irish Live Register jumped by stunning 26,700 to 352, 800 in February - - annual rise of 165,000; Unemployment rate to spike to 14% by end 2009
- Irish Live Register jumps 20,000 in March to 372,800 - - a rise of 173,279 in 12 months; Unemployment rate increases to 11.0%; Claimants could reach 550,000 by the end of 2009
- Irish Live Register remained just below 200,000 in April; up 41,279 in year
- Irish Live Register rises 11,400 in May to 413,500 in June; Monthly increase of 2.8% down from 3.5% in May; Unemployment rate rises to 12%
- Irish Live Register rises by 5,800 in January to 434,700
- Irish Live Register rose 15,800 to 388,600 in April; Casual and part-time workers estimated at 62,000
- Irish Live Register rose by 79,565 - +49.5% - in the year to September; Monthly increase of 9,400; Unemployment rate rises to 6.3%
- Irish Live Register September 2009: Monthly rise plunges to 600 with help of emigration; In 12-month period total increased by 183,422
- Irish Live Register short term claimants increased by 166,452 -- 113.4% - - in year to April 2009; 70,828 of total of 384,113 on Register for more than 1 year
- Irish Live Register surges above 400,000 in May; Monthly increase of 13,500 lowest in 2009
- Irish Live Register surges by 33,000 to 326,100 in January; Largest annual rise since at least 1967; Number of unemployment claimants will reach over 545,000 by end of 2009
- Irish Live Register total fell 500 to 432,500 in April; Unemployment rate was 13.4%
- Irish Live Register total increased 900 to 423,400 in November; Unemployment rate remains unchanged at 12.5%
- Irish Live Register total increased by 6,600 to 439,100 in May - - an all-time record high
- Irish Live Register: Number of claimants increased 5,400 to 428,800 in August - - lowest monthly rise in 2009
- Irish Live Register: 15,800 added in October to 260,300 - up 94,502 in 12-month period +60.0%; Biggest monthly leap in percentage terms since January 1975
- Irish Live Register: Jobs losses rise 16,900 rise in November; up 106, 684 in 12 months - highest monthly rise since January 1975
- Irish Live Register: Monthly jobless rises by 16,300 in December - equivalent to 1.2m in US; Annual increase biggest since at least 1967
- Irish Live Register: Number of unemployed workers in the Irish economy has risen to 5.6%
- Irish Live Register: Numbers increased in August by 9,100 to 235,100 - increase of 73,178 +42.0% in year; Highest addition in 41 years
- Irish Live Register: Rises 3,300 to 426,700 in December; 133,577 added in 2009; Unemployment rate still set to peak in summer 2010
- Irish Live Register: Short term claimants increase by 34.3% in year to April 2008
- Irish Live Register: Short term claimants increase by 34.3% in year to April 2008
- Irish Managed Pension Funds fell nearly 9% in September; Losses for the year-to-date at 23%
- Irish managed pension funds rose 21.8% in 2009 compared with a 27% gain in the ISEQ Index and 2008 loss of 34.8%
- Irish Managed Pension Funds: Three years of returns wiped out; Average return over 10 years at 2.6%; Funds down 16.9% on average in 2008
- Irish Manufacturing February 2009: Pace of deterioration in business conditions accelerated sharply
- Irish manufacturing output broadly unchanged in February; Activity continued to deteriorate despite a sharp rise in new export orders
- Irish manufacturing output continued to rise in June but at the slowest rate in four months
- Irish manufacturing output continued to rise in June but at the slowest rate in four months
- Irish manufacturing output fell in January as freezing weather conditions hit operations
- Irish manufacturing output grew at fastest pace in April in ten years
- Irish manufacturing output increased at sharpest pace in March since June 2006
- Irish manufacturing PMI data for December signalled another considerable deterioration of operating conditions
- Irish manufacturing PMI data for June pointed to another sharp deterioration of operating conditions but rate of decline eased
- Irish manufacturing PMI data in July signalled further deterioration; Pace of decline slightly eased
- Irish manufacturing PMI fell to survey record low in April as output and new orders declined sharply
- Irish manufacturing PMI hit new low in November; Boost to Irish GDP in 2009 will come from falling imports not rising exports
- Irish Manufacturing PMI in July signalled record deterioration in business conditions as demand weakened
- Irish manufacturing PMI remained historically low in April
- Irish Manufacturing PMI rose in August but still signalled marked deterioration in business conditions
- Irish manufacturing PMI shows output dropped back slightly in December
- Irish Manufacturing PMI: First rise in employment in two-and-a-half years as recovery continues
- Irish manufacturing posted further fall in output in August as new orders fell at sharper pace; Production dipped for eighteenth straight month
- Irish manufacturing production fell 1.8% in 2009; Sales turnover was down 11.0%
- Irish manufacturing recession eased in September; Jobs were still cut at marked pace
- Irish manufacturing sector business conditions continued to deteriorate in May; Second sharpest contraction of production in the ten-year survey history
- Irish manufacturing sector continued to contract at a marked rate in June
- Irish manufacturing sector continued to contract in May but pace of decline eased to slowest since October 2008
- Irish manufacturing sector contracted sharply in January as new orders continued to fall
- Irish manufacturing sector March PMI signals further sharp contraction in activity
- Irish manufacturing sector moved closer to recovery in October
- Irish Manufacturing Sector plunged to new low in October; Big deterioration in conditions - signals sharp fall in Q4 2008 GDP
- Irish Manufacturing: Sharp falls in output, new orders and employment in September
- Irish marginal tax rate for a single individual earning about €80,000 in 2009 is 50%; Effective average tax paid will be 36% of earnings
- Irish merchandise exports down 11% in 12 months to August; Food exports are down 13% in 2009
- Irish merchandise exports down 6% in March; In dominant US-owned sector rise in Chemicals outpaced plunge in IT shipments
- Irish merchandise exports down in March
- Irish merchandise exports fell 12% in May; Exports boosted by US-owned chemical sector; Remainder of good exports fare worse
- Irish merchandise exports fell 3.3% in 2009
- Irish merchandise exports fell 4% in March; Imports rose 8% reflecting recovery in economy
- Irish merchandise exports fell 5% in April
- Irish merchandise exports fell 5% in the year to July; Total exports including services rose 2.7% in year to June
- Irish merchandise exports fell in July
- Irish merchandise exports fell in June
- Irish merchandise exports in 2009 fell 3% compared with 2008
- Irish merchandise exports in August 2008 were down 5% on August 2007; Imports down 14%
- Irish merchandise exports increased 4% in February; Value up 3% in 12-month period
- Irish merchandise exports increased 5% in June; Shipments from US-owned chemical sector surged 31%
- Irish Merchandise Exports increased 7% in May
- Irish merchandise exports plunged 14% in October 2009 - - UK down 22%: Fell 15% in year; US-owned chemical sector likely to rebound in November
- Irish merchandise exports rose in September; Imports fell again; US-owned pharmaceutical sector offset other losses
- Irish merchandise exports to UK fell 18% in year to August; Warning of difficulty to get credit insurance on exports to some regions
- Irish merchandise exports were unchanged in February
- Irish mergers and acquisition (M&A) activity - led by CRH - remained strong in Q2; Big jump in Irish companies acquired by foreign buyers from 9 to 21
- Irish middle income earners in no guaranteed payout pension schemes need to save 15-20% of their salary
- Irish Mini/Emergency Budget 2009: Minister needs to pull a rabbit out of the hat on Tuesday - - Pat McArdle
- Irish monthly manufacturing prices increased by 0.9% in September 2008; Movements in US dollar have key impact
- Irish monthly redundancies rose to 6,201 in September
- Irish mortgage accounts in arrears for more than 90 days increases 13% to 32,321
- Irish mortgage brokers to begin charging clients as sector faces contraction
- Irish mortgage lending fell 20% in the first quarter
- Irish mortgage lending in Q1 2009 was down 43.5% on the previous quarter and 68.1% in year-on-year terms
- Irish mortgage lending in the fourth quarter of 2008 tumbled 50% compared to 2007; Numbers employed in Construction fell 22% in 2008
- Irish national average house prices fell 8.9% in year to March 2008
- Irish national average residential rent now stands at €771 - - the lowest in almost 10 years
- Irish National Bank says accumulated wealth of average Irish household has declined by €153,000 over last two years; Average household debt rises to €133,000 in 2008
- Irish National Employment Survey says public sector average hourly earnings in the private sector in October 2006 were 67.2% of public sector average earnings
- Irish national house prices back to Summer 2004 levels; Prices down 6.2% in first five months; Prices for first-time buyers fell 9.2% signalling distress sales
- Irish national house prices fell 9.5% in year to May 2008
- Irish National House Prices: Prices plunged in April as developers cut prices on new houses and tightening credit conditions deterred buyers
- Irish National Pay Agreement 2008: Outline agreement on 6% pay rise over 21 months with a final 1/2% rise for lower paid workers; 3 month pay pause in private sector and an 11 month pause in public sector
- Irish National Pension Framework: Retirement age to be raised eventually to 68; New mandatory “auto-enrolment” pension to be introduced in 2014
- Irish National Pensions Reserve Fund had a negative return of -17.3% in first nine month of 2008; Value fell to €18.7 billion
- Irish National Pensions Reserve Fund reports negative return of 12% for the first six months of 2008 compared with average Irish managed pension fund loss of 14.7%
- Irish National Treasury Management Agency sells €1 billion of government bonds; One bond had coupon - - interest rate - - of 4.6%
- Irish National Treasury Management Agency sells €1 billion of government bonds; One bond had coupon - - interest rate - - of 4.6%
- Irish Nationwide Building Society reports 2008 loss
- Irish net emigration for first time since 1995; 65,100 emigrated in year to April 2009 - - 18,400 Irish nationals left
- Irish New Car Sales fell 17.9% in April
- Irish new car sales jumped 24.61% in July on introduction of lower VRT taxes for more environmentally friendly vehicles
- Irish new car sales licensed in October 2008 fell 49.1%
- Irish new car sales plunged 31.8% in August compared with August 2007 - down 16.4% year-to-date
- Irish New Car Sales plunged 39.8% in May
- Irish new cars licensed fell 34.6% in September
- Irish new cars licensed fell 47.9% in September
- Irish new cars licensed fell 63.6% in March
- Irish new private cars licensed fell 40.9% in month of October 2009
- Irish new private cars licensed fell 64.5% in August 2009
- Irish new private cars licensed in April 2009 fell 68.4% compared with April 2008
- Irish News Cars: Decrease of 22.3% in new private cars licensed in March - down 5.3.% in first quarter
- Irish non-financial sector credit including residential mortgage lending outstanding continued to fall in April
- Irish pension fund returns flat in June; Half year average return in 2009 was 5.5%
- Irish pension fund returns turned negative in October for the first time in eight months
- Irish pension funds 2009 return to November at 16.5%; 10-year return average at 0.5%; Pension deficits at public companies rise to €5.4bn
- Irish pension funds back in the black in February boosted by returns in euro from overseas markets with unhedged currency risk
- Irish pension funds continued to gain ground during August
- Irish pension funds deliver positive returns for third month in a row in May
- Irish pension funds fell 2.8% in May; Every fund down over 10 years after inflation
- Irish pension funds hit by Eurozone debt crisis in May with returns down 3% in month
- Irish pension funds in the third quarter of 2009 had their best performance since 1999
- Irish pension funds lose further ground in January - - down 1.9% following 34.8% loss in 2008
- Irish Pension Funds lose over a quarter of their value in just one year after worst month in a decade
- Irish pension funds lose €27 billion during 2008 as managed funds decline 34.8%
- Irish pension funds lost 7.5% in first two months of 2009; Ten year annual loss average at 1%
- Irish pension funds lost ground in Q2 2010; Average annual return negative over 5 years - - below inflation over 10 years
- Irish pension funds returned 0.9% in April; Bond market volatility adds to pension fund distress
- Irish pension funds rise 5.8% in March; Average annual three year return at -6.9%; Ten year return at 0.3%
- Irish pension funds turned positive in March for first time since August 2008; Annual average return over ten years at -0.9% compared with inflation at 3.4%
- Irish pension funds' returns fell in January
- Irish Pension Funds; Up 4.2% in April but down 7.7% in 2008
- Irish pension managed funds fell by 9.2% during October and have lost a third of their value - 33.4% - over the past twelve months
- Irish pension managed funds rose by 2.0% on average in August - but down 15.2% in 2008
- Irish pension managed funds were broadly unchanged during May; Average I year loss at 14.9%; 10-year annual gain at 3.9%
- Irish pension managed funds were broadly unchanged during May; Average I year loss at 14.9%; 10-year annual gain at 3.9%
- Irish Pension Schemes fail to beat Inflation over 10 Years ; Funds down 32.7% on average in 2008
- Irish Pensions Board 2008 Annual Report: Minister on 3 public sector pensions rules out private pensions protection scheme
- Irish Pensions Board to focus on Hospitality, Retail and Agricultural sectors during the 2008 National Pensions Action Campaign
- Irish pensions industry body says mandatory pensions would “cause havoc” for private sector workers but ignores reality that purely voluntary system would not work
- Irish pensions industry body says mandatory pensions would “cause havoc” for private sector workers but ignores reality that purely voluntary system would not work
- Irish Pensions: Hibernian research shows that retirement and pension worries affect 1 in 2 Irish people
- Irish Pensions: €15 billion wiped off the value of Irish Managed Funds in 2008 as recession strikes
- Irish pharmacists warn 5,000 jobs at risk because of fee cut on State drug purchases; Costs doubled in 2002/2008 to €1.68bn - - up from €332m in 1997
- Irish planning permissions for dwelling units approved down 16.9% in the second quarter of 2008
- Irish prices rose for a fourth month in May with annual deflation slowing to -1.1% from -2.1%
- Irish private sector credit continued to decline in January
- Irish private sector credit fell again in February; Residential mortgage loans and household credit dipped
- Irish production for Manufacturing Industries in year to September 2008 was up 4.3% boosted by a 42% rise in basic chemicals sector
- Irish Property Crash: "Thank God, I'm not still a chartered accountant"
- Irish property group McAleer & Rushe in £200m London development
- Irish property lending outstanding at end Q3 2009 was 61% of total; Loans to manufacturing fell 18% in 12-month period
- Irish property market may recover in 3 years or 10 years; Can there be a phoenix-style rise from the economic wreckage?
- Irish Property Rental rates are falling
- Irish property-related lending increased at its lowest rate since 1997 in June
- Irish Public Sector average weekly earnings up 3.2% in year to June 2009; Jobs down 2,700 since Q2 2008 compared with 209,000 in private sector
- Irish Public Sector employment rose 5,200 in year to September 2008; Earnings gained 2.9%; IBEC calls for immediate deferral of pay agreement
- Irish Public Sector ex-Health: Earnings up 1.7% in year to June 2008 compared with 3.6% in March; Employment up by 8,600 in year
- Irish public sector pay excluding pensions exceeds private sector pay by 10% for top jobs to up to 30% for other grades
- Irish public sector pay/pensions to rise 16% in period 2005-2010; Pay up 11%: Pensions up 66%; Pensioner numbers rise 43% to 103,400
- Irish Public Sector Pensions' bill jumped €743m to €1.8bn in 5 years to 2008 - up 66.5% compared with pay rise of 45.4%
- Irish Public Sector Service Agreement 2010-2014: It could work or may not; "It's déjà vu all over again"
- Irish Public Sector: Average weekly earnings up 3.6% in 2007; Employment up by 11,500 in year
- Irish Public Sector: Average weekly earnings up 3.6% in year to March 2008
- Irish Public Spending: Bord Snip report recommends spending cuts of €5.2 billion; Most radical overhaul of local government since 1898 but other Victorian era relics to survive
- Irish Public Spending: Comptroller and Auditor General says border duty allowances for Defence personnel have been paid long after the original rationale for them ceased
- Irish Public Spending: Pre- IT/Web official policy prevails - hide as much information as possible from taxpayers
- Irish Quarterly National Household Survey Q4 2008: Employment fell in annual decrease of 86,900 or 4.1% - - the biggest fall since at least 1975
- Irish R&D Public Funding: Hard science supported by few hard facts
- Irish redundancies for the year to November amounted to 37,296 - an increase of 57.1% on 2007
- Irish redundancies rise 36% in 2008 to 23,545
- Irish reform, boring "process" and the insiders who call themselves outsiders
- Irish Regulatory Reform: Central Bank outlines radical overhaul of financial regulation
- Irish residential mortgage lending fell again in September 2009; Spending on personal credit cards down 15%
- Irish residential mortgage lending fell more €100m in April - -- the first monthly fall since at least 1990; Annual growth rate was down to 3.4% - - lowest since 1986
- Irish residential mortgage lending in February fell to an annual rate of 4.9% - - the lowest since the mid-1980's
- Irish residential mortgage lending outstanding fell again in August - - down €132m in 2009 compared with rise of €7bn in 2008
- Irish residential rents across the country rose by just over 1% in January; Likely floor has not yet been hit
- Irish residential rents are falling for the first time since 2004
- Irish residential rents down 17% in past 12 months
- Irish residential rents fell by more than 5% in the first three months of 2009
- Irish residential rents have begun to stabilise in 2010
- Irish retail sales dipped 17.3% in month of January 2010
- Irish Retail Sales fell 1.8% in March - down 2.1% in 12-month period
- Irish retail sales fell by 3.2% in year to April 2008; Down 0.9% in April; Retail sales are declining across the board
- Irish retail sales fell by 3.5% in year to July 2008; Up 2.3% in month on car sales rise due to VRT tax change
- Irish retail sales fell in year to February 2008 - First fall since January 2004
- Irish retail sales rose by 0.2% in July 2009 - - down 15% in year to July
- Irish retail sales volume decreases by 15.4% in year to May; Fall in month despite plunge in prices
- Irish retail sales volume down 7.3% in year to October - annual fall biggest since 1984
- Irish Retail Sales volume falls 8.2% in year to November 2009; Up 1.1% in month
- Irish retail sales volume fell 9.0% in 12-months to August 2009; Monthly dip was 1.0%; Pub trade down 13.1%; Price pressure on retailers evident
- Irish Retail Sales volume fell 17.0 % in year to April - up 2.3% in month aided by heavy discounting according to Davy
- Irish retail sales volume fell 4.8% in year to May 2008 - largest annual decrease since January 1987
- Irish retail sales volume fell 4.8% in year to May 2008 - largest annual decrease since January 1987
- Irish retail sales volume fell 8.1% in year to November - Excluding Motor Trades largest decrease since April 1975
- Irish Retail Sales volume fell 9.1% in year to October 2009
- Irish retail Sales volume fell 9.9% in year to June; Dipped 13.9% in Q2 2009; Rose 2.2% in June
- Irish retail sales volume fell by 4.5% in 2008
- Irish retail sales volume fell by 6.0% in the year to August 2008 - the biggest plunge since February 1984
- Irish retail sales volume increased 1.3% in March 2009; Down 17.9 % in 12-month period
- Irish retail sales volume increased in March signalling recovery in consumer spending
- Irish retail sales volume index increases by 3.5% in year to May
- Irish retail sales volume index increases by 6.0% in year to April 2010
- Irish Retail Sales volume plunged 6.2% in year to September 2008 - - biggest drop since 1983
- Irish Retail Sales volume plunges by 5.2% in year to June
- Irish retail sales volume rises in February
- Irish retail sales volume rose 2.1% in month of September; Down 10% in 12-month period
- Irish Revenue launches investigation of use of trusts and offshore structures to evade tax
- Irish Revenue says in annual report drugs with a street value of over €152m were seized; 20 court convictions for serious tax and duty evasion in 2008
- Irish Revenue to get automatic reporting of Deposit Interest information from Financial Institutions
- Irish Revenue to target cash businesses this year; Seeking legal authority for access to client information held by estate agents and auctioneers on purchases of overseas property
- Irish Rural Link says it's time for a proper debate on the future of former Irish State telco Eircom - - including its possible renationalisation
- Irish Sea marine survey for electricity link completed
- Irish service activity continued to fall in February while intense competition led to further reduction in charges
- Irish Service Activity contracted sharply in July while optimism fell to record low; Sixth month of uninterrupted activity decline
- Irish service activity, new business and employment all fell at record rates in June
- Irish service business activity fell at sharper pace in September as new orders declined further
- Irish service business activity slightly rose for the first time in twenty-seven months in April
- Irish Service Economy: Rate of decline in activity slightly accelerated in November as new business fell again
- Irish Service Economy: Rates of decline of activity and new business accelerated in August; Contraction of activity in each month since February 2008
- Irish service firms business activity fell at a record rate in May; New business declined at sharpest pace since October 2001
- Irish service PMI continued to fall at sharp rate in July as recession showed little sign of easing
- Irish service PMI in October shows sector contracted the least since March 2008
- Irish service sector activity continued to fall sharply in September; Record drop in employment as confidence declined
- Irish service sector activity fell at record rate in February as the economic downturn continued
- Irish Service Sector activity fell at sharpest rate since October 2001 in April while confidence eased to lowest level for over six-and-a-half years
- Irish Service Sector activity sharply contracted in November
- Irish service sector business activity in August fell at slowest pace since March 2008 but employment still dropped sharply
- Irish service sector edged closer to recovery in December as both activity and new orders fell at slower rates
- Irish service sector PMI data for June show sharp fall in activity but rate of decline slowed again
- Irish service sector rate of contraction remained sharp in May but pace of decline eased
- Irish service sector reports further sharp fall in business activity in December
- Irish services activity continued to fall sharply in March but decline weakest since October 2008
- Irish services activity rose at fastest pace since October 2007 as new order growth accelerated in June
- Irish Services Producer Prices down 4.0% in the year to Quarter 1 2010
- Irish services sector activity fell in March but at the slowest pace in the current 26-month period of decline
- Irish services sector PMI fell sharply in January; Intense competition continued to drive down output prices
- Irish Services Sector: Second successive increase in business activity in May as new orders continued to rise
- Irish Services Strategy Group Report: Political whitewash ignores overwhelming dominance of foreign-owned firms in Irish service exports thereby neutering strategy for Irish firms
- Irish Services, not Agriculture, are the most critical part of the World Trade Talks for economic and export growth - Irish Exporters Association
- Irish Services: Contractions in activity, new business and employment all accelerated in January
- Irish share trading service Delta Index selects CODA Financials System to support growth and expansion
- Irish Small Firms Association says cost of doing business out of line with competitors
- Irish SMEs could Save €200 million on Annual Energy Costs – Sustainable Energy Ireland
- Irish SMEs told to operate VAT on a cash receipts basis if possible
- Irish SMEs urged to examine activities for potential R&D tax credits
- Irish SME’s losing out on interest from Big Banks says RaboDirect
- Irish spending on both foreign and domestic travel fell in the second quarter of 2009
- Irish spending on foreign holidays down by 28% in Q1 2009
- Irish sports clubs to be urged to sell land with development potential
- Irish State bank guarantee to be extended to Ulster Bank, First Active, Halifax Bank of Scotland, IIB Bank and Postbank
- Irish State electricity utility ESB to create 3,700 new jobs by 2013; Recycling of March 2008 news on €22 billion plan to be "world class renewables company"
- Irish Stock Exchange says Grant Thornton Review of Corporate Governance is a useful - - "albeit narrow" - - contribution
- Irish student comes top in Europe in Microsoft Office global competition
- Irish Supreme Court rules in favour of BUPA in risk equalisation case against the Government
- Irish technology companies raised €220m in venture capital in the year to September 2009
- Irish technology firms raised €110.7 million in the first half of 2009
- Irish Technology Leadership group announces launch of US-Ireland venture fund of $100m
- Irish telcos need State cash support for building a €2.5bn next generation network
- Irish Times halts supplies as Dunnes Stores reverts to "cheque is in the post" system
- Irish trade surplus up in January and February; Value of merchandise exports in February 2009 down 5%; Food exports to UK down 9%.
- Irish trade unions seeking pay increases in line with inflation
- Irish Trade: Imports fell 14% in three months to October 2008; Exports rose 2%
- Irish venture capital funds have over €500m to invest in the Irish SME sector including taxpayer funds of €175m
- Irish Venture Capital: Companies raised €70.8m in the three months to September 2008
- Irish visits abroad down 13% in Q1 2009
- Irish weekly earnings fell 0.6% in year to Q4 2009; Jobs fell in production, transport, craft, manual workers categories by 15.1%
- Irish €90 billion “bad bank” Plan: NTMA at sea over NAMA; Lenihan scrambles through shambles and promises to appoint committee
- Irish-Malaysian engineering group Kentz reports 19% rise in adjusted profit in 2008
- Irish Revenue announces results of recent VRT Crackdown
- Is Barack barking up the wrong tree? - - Pat McArdle, Ulster Bank
- Is China ready to become the next economic superpower?
- Is China ready to become the next economic superpower?
- Is the decline in Irish house prices over?
- IT company Fujitsu Services and Antrim-based Randox Laboratories announce investments in Derry, Belfast and Donegal
- IT Industry Competitiveness Index 2008: Strong technology innovation/talent development mark the leaders; 3 new countries—Taiwan, Sweden and Denmark—move into the Top Five
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- iTunes store tops 10 billion songs sold; Apple has 70% of digital music market and 25% of total music market
- IVG Immobilien Beats Slump for Now
- J.P. Morgan Seizes Fund's Collateral
- Jaded Americans
- Janus Names Ex-Pimco COO As New CEO
- Japan announces new $80.6 billion stimulus package to support the fragile economy
- Japan crushes decades dominant party of cronyism, corruption and monumental economic mismanagement
- Japan Developers Face Head Winds
- Japan Developers' Woes Grow
- Japan is in the throes of deep recession with a public debt at 180% of GDP
- Japan PMI data shows manufacturing returned to growth in June led by an improvement in external demand
- Japan PMI data signalled further easing of manufacturing recession in May; Industrial output surged the most in 56 years in April
- Japan reports biggest jump in exports in 30 years propelled by strong Asian demand
- Japan reports exports rose in October with strong demand from China and other Asian economies
- Japan reports exports to the US plunged 22% in August; First trade deficit in normal trading month since 1982
- Japan reports rise in industrial production in May was highest since 1953 but retail sales dip for ninth straight month
- Japan reports ¥63.9bn - $666m - trade deficit in October as exports to Asia, US and Europe fell
- Japan revises down fourth quarter 2009 GDP
- Japan says economy grew at 4.0% annualised pace in first quarter of 2008; Wholesale prices surged to a 27-year high
- Japan's consumer prices fall at record rate in August; Finance Minister rows back on issue of currency intervention
- Japan's economy contracted in the second quarter of 2008; Consumer confidence tumbles to 26-year low
- Japan's economy gets sharp boost from Asian exports and rising consumer spending in Q1 2010
- Japan's economy grew at an annual rate of 3.3% in the first quarter
- Japan's economy grew at annualised rate of 4.6% in fourth quarter of 2009; Economy contracted 5.0% in year
- Japan's economy grew strongly in the third quarter
- Japan's exports fell for the first time in more than four years in June signaling slowdown in demand from Emerging Markets, including China
- Japan's exports rose 12.1% in December - - down 33% in 2009; China overtakes US as biggest customer
- Japan's exports rose strongly in April; Exports to China jumped 14.1%; Exports to US fell 9.1%
- Japan's factory output rose for the sixth straight month in August; Manufacturing PMI in biggest advance in September for three years
- Japan's household spending fell in May but industrial production surged on Asian demand
- Japan's manufacturing continued to expand but at slower rate in June; Industrial production/ household spending dipped in May - - unemployment rose
- Japan's manufacturing continued to improve in January; In December 2009 industrial production, household spending and new jobs rose; Prices fell at record pace
- Japan's NTT DoCoMo to acquire an 11.5% equity interest in Blue Ocean Wireless for US$10 million
- Japan's temps accounting for 35% of the workforce in the firing line
- Japan's Toyoko Inn Targets New York
- Japanese consumer prices - excluding food and energy - rose 0.1% year-on-year in March - the first increase since 1998
- Japanese Developer Urban Fails
- Japanese Finance Minister to resign for being apparently drunk at G-7 weekend meeting in Rome - - VIDEO
- Japanese industrial production fell a record 9.6% in December; Manufacturing PMI slumped in January
- Japanese machinery orders unexpectedly dropped for a third month in May; Current account surplus dips 34.3% on declining exports
- Japanese Manufacturing conditions continued to deteriorate in July as output and new orders fell further; Price indices hit new highs
- Japanese manufacturing output continued to rise in March; Rate was slowest in four months
- Japanese Manufacturing PMI in March rises for second straight month; Further fall in output signalled
- Japanese manufacturing sector in May improves at fastest rate in forty-four months
- Japanese Prime Minister announces ¥27 trillion - $275 billion - stimulus package
- Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigns after eight months; Fourth failed PM in less than four years admits "many shortcomings"
- Japan’s economy emerges from recession
- Japan’s economy in valley of tears with record public debt heading for 300% of GDP
- Japan’s economy shrank at annual 12.7% rate in the fourth quarter of 2008 - - the most since 1974 oil shock
- Japan’s economy shrunk by stunning annualised 15.2% rate in the first quarter - - the worst contraction since 1955; Growth may have returned in current quarter
- Japan’s exports fell for a tenth straight month in July
- Japan’s exports rose in month of April and the economy achieved a surprise trade surplus
- Japan’s exports rose strongly in April boosted by continuing robust demand from Asia
- Japan’s investment environment is improving despite recent setbacks says Economist Intelligence Unit
- Japan’s January exports tumbled 45.7% year on year
- Japan’s third quarter economic growth revised sharply down; Economy contracted in nominal terms
- JetBird announces strategic investment of €10 million; Dublin-based European private jet airline plans to commence operations in 2009
- Job losses of 500 announced by employers in Cork and Offaly - Boston Scientific and Howley Civil Engineering
- Job vacancies were only reported by 7% of Irish companies in the private sector in April
- Jobless Claims Soar for Week
- Jones Lang LaSalle Inks Mall Deal
- JP Morgan Chase & Co - America's biggest bank by market value - posts 53% fall in second-quarter net income - stock rises 11% after 15% climb on Wednesday
- Judge Clears General Growth Plan
- Judge Rejects Countrywide Settlement
- Judges Stiffen Foreclosure Standards
- July PMI survey data signals recovery is underway in Japan’s manufacturing; Deflation hits record; Unemployment at six-year high
- Jump in bond rates a desirable normalisation after a panic
- Just How Green Is Faux Grass?
- Just over half of Spanish public debt is foreign debt compared with 70% for Ireland and Greece at 77%
- Just €71m was invested in Irish investment property market in first 9 months of 2009; UK market emerged from recession in Q3 2009
- JWT to Close Storied Chicago Office
- Karl Lagerfeld to Design Dubai Dwellings
- Katzman Is Back on the Prowl
- KB Home Posts Profit on Tax Gain
- KB Home Reports Narrower Loss
- KB Home's Next Act
- KB Homes: 'Persistently Poor Demand'
- KBC Ireland reports fall in 2008 profit and €55m charge for bad loans
- Keeping Families Above Water
- Keeping Safe Hand at Wheel
- Keeping the Wrecking Ball at Bay
- Kelly tells High Court Irish property prices are likely to fall back to mid-1990s levels
- Kenny needs mettle to resist vested interests after dramatic move on Irish political reform
- Kenny Rogers Lists Mansion in Atlanta
- Kentz Group wins US$250 million engineering contract in South Africa
- Kentz reports 52% jump in pre-tax profits in H1 2008
- Kerry Group reports increase in profit for H1 2009 despite a fall in total sales
- Kerry Group reports profit before tax rise of 0.2% in first half of 2008
- Kerry Group reports profit rise of 6% in 2009 despite "challenging economic conditions"
- Kerry reports fall in revenues in 2009
- Kerry reports profit before tax and non-trading items increased by 2.3% in 2008
- Key Dealmaker Leaves General Growth
- Keynes in Dublin
- Kingspan confirms expectations of an appreciable year on year reduction in earnings for 2008
- Kingspan reports H1 2008 profits down over 22%
- Kingspan reports pre-tax profits dipped 70% in first half of 2009
- Kingspan says sales down 34% in first four months of 2009; Further contraction expected
- Kingspan says third quarter revenues are down 28%
- Knock on 'Opportunity': Sharp Losses
- KPMG International survey says energy companies fear bubble developing in renewable technology sector
- KPMG study says personal tax rates on rise; Rates up in Ireland, Iceland - - UK in 2010; Switzerland attractive tax location
- KPMG survey claims expanding Irish R&D Tax Credits can trigger employment gains or maybe not
- KPMG survey finds evidence of shift of global economic power to Emerging Asian Markets; Ireland not focus of investment plans by corporates in 14 key countries
- Kurzarbeit - - Germany's short-time working scheme
- L.A. Luxury Hotels Brace for Downturn
- L.A. Story: Tishman Woe
- Labour costs per hour worked in the EU26 in 2009 were highest in Denmark at €37.40 and lowest at €2.90 in Bulgaria; No data for Ireland
- Labour Court says cases at State workplace dispute agencies rose 30% in 2008; Change from disputes about sharing fruits of success to effects of economic downturn
- Lack of bank funding continuing to "cripple" Irish commercial property market; Transactions down to €465 million in year to September compared with €1.6 billion in 2007
- Lack of confidence in a recovery makes companies in Asia seek stability while expansion takes a back seat
- Ladbrokes CEO to Step Down
- Lake Las Vegas Placed in Bankruptcy
- Lampert Bets on Housing Rebound
- Land Burden: what comprises the expenses for acquiring plots from the city
- Land Deal Defaults on $1 Billion Loan
- Land Deals Help Home Builders
- Land degradation is intensifying in many parts of the world: One fourth of the world’s population affected says new study
- Land Securities Pushes Ahead in London
- Land Securities Refocuses on Growth
- LandAmerica's Collapse Leaves Investors Looking for Cash
- Landlords See a Jump in Vacancy Rates
- Landlords Sweeten Pot for Renters
- Landmark's Name Is up for Sale
- Lands of Opportunity: Israel, Denmark and Singapore - - and what about Ireland?
- LandSource Files for Bankruptcy
- Large fiscal and monetary stimulus has supported a recovery in China’s economy
- Largest US student lender to move 2,000 outsourced jobs back to the United States to mollify Obama administration
- Las Vegas Casinos End Expansion Plans
- Las Vegas City Center Gets Funding
- Las Vegas Construction Faces Hit
- Las Vegas Plaza Plans Pushed Back to '09
- Las Vegas Project Weighs Bankruptcy
- Las Vegas Sands to Restart Macau Sites
- Las Vegas Sands to Resume Macau Plans
- LaSalle Fund Targets Australia, Japan
- LaSalle Is BofA's Other Vexing Deal
- LaSalle Orders 20% Cut in Hotel Staffing
- Lavish Condo Project Struggles
- Law and Practice
- Law Firm Sees Big Reduction in Rent
- Law Reform Commission says Irish household debt to disposable income rose from 48% in 1995 to 176% in 2009; Recommends imprisonment should not be used in debt cases
- Leaders of the Group of Eight countries warn soaring oil and food prices pose a "serious challenge" to world economic growth
- Leak of Canadian bank interest in AIB stake post-NAMA loan transfer appears to have strategic motivation
- Learning to Embrace the Change Order
- Leaving the euro: Lessons from Argentina
- Lehman bankruptcy puts pension funds’ risk management to test
- Lehman Brothers cut mortgage assets 20% in Second Quarter; Reported $2.8 billion loss
- Lehman Casts Shadow on Commercial Market
- Lehman fallout: Panic on Wall Street: Barometers of stress hit World War II levels
- Lehman Has Plan for Real-Estate Loans
- Lehman Is Still Willing to Deal
- Lehman ousted whistleblower in 2008 who had raised red flags with Big 4 accounting firm Ernst & Young on $50bn scam; Box-ticking auditors in frame
- Lehman Property Boss Returns
- Lehman's Clouded SunCal Bet
- Lehman's Property Bets Are Coming Back to Bite
- Lemon Banking - the Subprime Mortgage crisis is the fourth major banking crisis since World War II
- Lender-Liability Suits Rise
- Lenders Gain Upper Hand on Freibaum
- Lenders Get Two Miami Towers
- Lenders Move to Foreclose on Macklowe
- Lenders Pressed on Bad Loans
- Lenders Seize Sillerman Resort
- Lenders Tiptoe Into Bulk Sales
- Lenders to Get Miami Condo Complex
- Lenihan acknowledges Budget Day Irish economic forecasts were unrealistic/massaged
- Lenihan announces directors' panel for State-guaranteed banks
- Lenihan announces option for members of Defined Contribution occupational pension schemes to defer annuity purchase
- Lenihan announces review group to report on disposal of State commercial assets
- Lenihan outlines public spending cuts; Irish economic transformation has been "the envy of the world"; "Careful stewardship of the economy has positioned us well to weather the current economic storm"
- Lenihan plans baby-step crackdown on Irish crony capitalism
- Lenihan presents 2009 Revised Estimates for Public Services to Dáil; Bruton says "archaic system of budgeting” does not have “a single target”
- Lenihan publishes Bord Snip report; Proposes €5.3 billion in spending cuts and public sector staff reductions of 17,300; Says public pension cost at 30% of salary
- Lenihan rejects demand to extend 5-year recovery plan for Irish public finances; Trade union leader David Begg gets his figures wrong
- Lenihan says cost of State guarantee for Irish banks will amount to at least 10% of their annual profits
- Lenihan says Government does not rule out public investment in Irish banks
- Lenihan says Irish "bad bank" NAMA will accept €77 billion in property loans for value of €54 billion - - a 30% discount
- Lenihan says NAMA valuation will not be based on "bubble" prices; “risk-sharing mechanism” with the banks planned
- Lenihan says total cost of State pension for an Irish public sector worker hired after 2004 is 26.1% of pay
- Lenihan seeking applications from “suitably qualified people” for appointments to the board of State "bad bank" NAMA
- Lenihan signals “risk sharing” between banks and taxpayers in "bad bank" NAMA plan
- Lenihan tells American Chamber of Commerce Thanksgiving lunch improvements in both public and private sector competitiveness will protect and grow jobs
- Lenihan tells American Chamber of Commerce Thanksgiving Lunch Ireland is well placed to deal with global economic challenges
- Lenihan to advise Dáil on NAMA valuation process; Desmond says "bad bank" will cause “untold long-term damage to Ireland Inc”
- Lenihan tries to dampen fears NAMA "bad bank" plan is little more than rough outline
- Lenihan welcomes EU ruling to keep NAMA debt off national accounts; Inclusion would add 33% to 2010 Irish debt/GDP ratio bringing it to 109%
- Lenihan welcomes with reservations Fine Gael €11 billion stimulus plan
- Lenihan, NAMA versus the “leave it alone liquidationists” or potential saviours of the Irish economy
- Leningradskoe Shosse: from expansion to development
- Lennar Confirms Bad Drywall in Homes
- Lennar Cuts Its Prices as Sales Hit a Wall
- Lennar Stays Ahead of Crisis
- Lennar Swings to Profit
- Lennar's Land Problem
- Less Shopping = Fewer Malls
- Less than half of financial services risk professionals believe the principles of risk management remain sound
- Lessons from Global Credit Crisis: Market discipline, regulation, macro-economy main failures; IMF says: Government Debt of rich economies to rise 15% of GDP - biggest 2-year jump since 1945
- Let the Sunshine In
- Letter from Asia and Happy Christmas from Finfacts
- Letter from Asia and Happy Christmas from Finfacts
- Letter from Nairobi - - Prof. Seamus Grimes, NUI Galway
- Letter from Shanghai -- Prof. Seamus Grimes, NUI Galway
- Level of Irish Maths achievement is of Serious Concern to Employers
- Liberty's Ambitious Split
- Lightstone's Trouble at the Shopping Mall
- Lincor Solutions wins top prize in 2008 Deloitte Ireland Technology Fast 50 Awards
- Liquidator appointed to Sasha chain of 42 women's fashion stores - - 300 jobs lost
- Lisbon Treaty: Campaigning for democratic accountability and transparency in Brussels but why not try it in Dublin first?
- Lisbon Treaty: Europe's Plan B if ratification ends at 26-1; Cowen faces tough choices
- Lisbon Treaty: In Perilous post-Celtic Tiger times, Ireland opts for Impotence in Europe's greatest success of past thousand years
- Lisbon Treaty: Ireland’s membership of the EU underpins over 300,000 jobs within US multinationals
- Lisbon Treaty: Irish Referendum Commission confirms high public understanding of the key elements of Treaty
- Lisbon Treaty: The Irish have a neck in lecturing Europe; Don’t Knows should not vote
- Lisbon Treaty: Thousands of Irish private sector workers will face bleak employment prospects in 2009 as No campaign leaders fight for jobs at the heart of Europe - in the European Parliament
- Lisney says Irish commercial property rents are down 1% in first quarter; 12% of the total Dublin office stock has been built since January 2007
- Living on Shaky Ground
- Loan Deadline Passes for General Growth
- Loan Plan for Homeowners
- Loan transfers to "bad bank" NAMA may be delayed until 2010
- Local Banks Face Big Losses
- Local Banks Regain Mortgage Business
- Logistics Hub: a City within a City
- Logistics Hub: a City within a City
- Logistics in Motion
- Logistics in Motion
- Logistics Services in Russia
- Logistics Services in Russia
- London & Stamford Looks to Pounce
- London and New York lead in Global Financial Centres report followed by Hong Kong and Singapore; Dublin gets ranking of 31 in 75-city sample
- London City and West End offices resumed rental growth in January
- London Has Shaky Property Crown
- London Housing May Feel Pinch
- London Office Deals Pick Up
- London Property Market Heats Up
- London Tops Office-Rental Rates
- London's City Sees Property Boom
- London, New York Stand to Suffer
- London’s and New York’s lead cut in Global Financial Centres Index; Dublin steady in 13th place
- London’s West End and Moscow remain world’s two most expensive office markets; Dublin rents at 14th rank are almost double Brussels'
- Longs Property Is a Wild Card
- Love and Hate in Real Estate
- Lower Manhattan's Office-Supply Glut
- Luxembourg and Ireland lead GDP per capita in European Union; Both sets of data are misleading
- M.D.C. and W.B. Homes Team Up
- Macau Gambling Slows
- Macerich Looks to Sell Stakes in Malls
- Macerich Sells Stake in Two Malls
- MacFarlane, Calpers Ties Strained
- Mack-Cali Shaves Its Dividend
- Macklowe to Sell GM Building
- Maguire Is Forced Out
- Maguire May Be Forced Out
- Maguire Missed Payment on Irvine Office Complex
- Maguire Properties Gets Offer by Founder
- Maguire Properties Received Offer
- Maguire Properties Unloads Property
- Maguire Refinances to Reduce Debt
- Maguire Sells Building at Discount
- Maguire to Appoint New Chairman
- Maguire to Sell Pet Project, Add Debt
- Mahon Tribunal ends public hearings after 11 years; Irish land rezoning system remains protected sacred cow
- Major US banks massage quarterly debt data to mask risk levels says Wall Street Journal
- Majority of Irish Defined Benefit Pension Schemes which guarantee final benefit are insolvent
- Majority of Irish food products carry Guideline Daily Amount (GDA) labelling; Weak format compared with the US counterpart
- Makets News Afternoon: Bernanke says US recession losing steam; US service industries contracted in April at the slowest pace in six months
- Making Use of Odd Spaces
- Mall Glut to Clog Market
- Mall Heirs Battle Over Will
- Mall Landlords Gain Ad Space
- Mall Mauled
- Mall Owner Is Warning of Default
- Mall Owner Looks to Cut Debt
- Mall Owner Prepares TALF Deals
- Mall Owner Prepares TALF Deals
- Mall Owner: Antitrust Isn't Issue
- Mall Owners Reel as Credit Woes Spiral
- Mall Owners Seek Debt Extensions
- Mall Shares Slide on Retail Fears
- Mall Stores Try to Shrink
- Mall Titan Enters Chapter 11
- Mall-Owner General Growth Discloses Concession to Lenders
- Malls Race to Stay Relevant in Downturn
- Managing projects effectively is difficult even for experts says new report
- Mandelson says Japan remains the most closed investment market in the developed world but for decades Japan has taken advantage of an open global investment climate
- Manhattan Property Could Strain Calpers
- Manhattan Won't Avoid Property Crunch
- Mannion agrees to resign as Aer Lingus chief executive after boardroom bust-up
- Manufacturers plan to outsource more R&D
- Manufacturing PMI reports show strong growth in Japan, China and India in December
- Manufacturing: China's American-backed copy king links up with one of Europe's biggest car manufacturers
- Many Irish businesses are in danger of being dragged down by their owners’ personal debts - - Mazars
- Marathon Oil sells Irish unit to Malaysian company Star Energy Group
- Margin Calls Hit Real-Estate Officers
- Marginal growth in trips to Ireland so far in 2008
- Market News Afternoon: All 18 Western European Markets close down; Oil price rises over $4 in New York close to $136 a barrel
- Market News Afternoon: European shares fall; Pending US home sales rise
- Market News Afternoon: Service industries in the US expanded in May for a fifth straight month showing the recovery is broadening
- Market News Afternoon: Trichet calls on banks to increase lending; US retailers report cool July
- Market News Afternoon: US stocks rise on services data; Dublin market gains
- Market News Friday: Shares rise in Europe; China expects to grow at annual 8.5% rate in third quarter of 2009
- Market News Monday: Dubai gets $10bn bailout from Abu Dhabi; Oil price below $70 in New York
- Market News Tuesday: ISEQ plunges 5% as the four Irish bank shares tumble 9% or more after Bank of Ireland statement; IL& P down 18%
- Market News Tuesday: Stocks in sharp fall as US Q4 earnings season begins; Elan up 12% on prospect of sale; Oil price below $37 in New York
- Market News Wednesday: Oil hits new record of above $129 in New York; up 13% since May 2nd; Futures to 2016 jump $8.40 to $138.38 a barrel
- Market panic returns on Greek contagion fears as euro falls below $1.30; Economic outlook not all gloom
- Market Report: Moscow Shopping Centers. Real Estate And Bend Oregon
- Market Signals New General-Growth Bids
- Markets New Afternoon: Lenihan says Ireland is "fighting for its economic future"
- Markets New Thursday: Obama to announce size and trading restrictions on big US banks
- Markets News Afternoon Stocks in slight falls after Goldman, Citi results; ECB says car-scrapping incentives in Eurozone countries have been of limited benefit
- Markets News Afternoon: AIB transfers €3.29bn in loans to NAMA at discount or 'haircut' of 43%; Politicians to meet Financial Regulator on Quinn Insurance
- Markets News Afternoon: Bernanke says it's likely US recession has ended - - foresees weak economy; Shares rise in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: European stocks in slight rise; US markets also up; Bank of Ireland raises €2 billion on issue of Government Guaranteed Bond on international market
- Markets News Afternoon: Lenihan to outline proposals for inquiry into the banking crisis; Report on DCC insider trading says any breaches of company law unintentional
- Markets News Afternoon: Paulson and Bernanke urge swift action by Congress on $700bn bailout; Dublin market plunges 6%; Bank of Ireland and Anglo Irish Bank both lose over 13%
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares climb as panic eases; European Commissioner Rehn promises Greece deal in coming days; EU aid package could total as much as €90bn over 3 years
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks rally in Europe and US on signals worst of global recession is over and changes in "mark-to-market" rules
- Markets News Afternoon: 12% of American mortgages are either behind in payment or in foreclosure; Oil price moves to $65
- Markets News Afternoon: 45% of US second-hand house sales in Q4 2008 had mortgage defaults; Irish bank shares in double-digit slides in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: 9 of 18 Western European markets close up including Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: Aer Lingus delays 2009 results because of staff ballots; OECD unemployment rate falls to 8.7% in January driven by US and Japan
- Markets News Afternoon: AIB and BoI surge in Dublin; Eurozone trade surplus rises to seven-year high; Euro/US$ rate at near year high
- Markets News Afternoon: AIB Bank rebounds in Dublin; Barclays Bank remains under siege in London
- Markets News Afternoon: AIB says Irish Government likely to take stake of 17% prior to €7.4bn recapitalisation; IMF chief says Greece may need €120bn in aid over 3 years
- Markets News Afternoon: All 18 Western European markets rise except Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: All 18 Western European markets rise except Ireland; US stocks fall
- Markets News Afternoon: All 18 Western European Markets rise; ISEQ climbs 3%; Boeing lifts 20-year delivery forecast; Oil at $136 in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: All Western European markets close down; World's biggest financial firms may lose as many as 175,000 jobs by this time next year
- Markets News Afternoon: Americans' net worth fell 18% in 2008 - wiping out four years of gains; Stocks up in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: Anglo Irish and Bank of Ireland below €1 in Dublin; Hewlett-Packard cheers investors in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: Anglo Irish appoints Australian banker Mike Aynsley as CEO; Shares slide across globe
- Markets News Afternoon: Anglo Irish Bank falls almost 12% in Dublin; Almost one-third of US homeowners who bought in the last five years are now in negative equity
- Markets News Afternoon: Anglo Irish Bank finance director Willie McAteer to quit; Ryanair to increase oil hedging
- Markets News Afternoon: Anglo Irish Bank rises over 7%; European stocks close up; Wall Street flat in advance of Fed rate setting meetings
- Markets News Afternoon: Anglo Irish ex-finance director under arrest; Euro falls towards $1.33 on Greece concerns
- Markets News Afternoon: Anglo Irish halts interest payments on bonds; e|net wins national broadband contract; Oil price falls below $60
- Markets News Afternoon: Annual Irish production increased by 2.3% in January 2010; US weekly initial jobless benefit claims fell slightly last week
- Markets News Afternoon: Bank lending to the Eurozone private sector rose slightly in May
- Markets News Afternoon: Bank of America earnings report sinks stocks; Oil falls $4 in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: Bank of America fires Merrill Lynch chief Thain; Spent $1.2m to redecorate his office; Sought $10m bonus despite huge losses
- Markets News Afternoon: Bank of America, the largest bank in the United States, rebounds from 1984 low; Investors fear Federal seizure
- Markets News Afternoon: Bank of England warns UK economy will shrink by 4%; Dublin market falls
- Markets News Afternoon: Bank of Ireland buys $600m bonds at 40% discount; IL&P appoints Kevin Murphy as CEO; Ryanair cuts routes - - blames €10 travel tax
- Markets News Afternoon: Bank of Ireland to contract its UK mortgage business; Eurozone recession confirmed in Q3 2008
- Markets News Afternoon: Bank shares fall in Dublin; Dubai says "lenders should bear part of the responsibility'" for Dubai World's $59bn in liabilities
- Markets News Afternoon: Bank shares rise in Europe and US; Irish drinks group plunges 10% in Dublin; Oil price below $59 in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: Bank shares rise in Europe and US; Irish drinks group plunges 10% in Dublin; Oil price below $59 in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: Bank worries in Europe and US sink stocks; Deutsche Bank reports Q4 loss; Oil price falls to $36 in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: Barclays rises 70% in London; Bank of America up 24% in New York; Irish financials climb in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: Bernanke nominated fro second term; Shares up in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: Bernanke says low US interest rates required to support a “nascent” recovery; Share prices dip in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: Bernanke says outlook for US economy appears to be improving; Oil price above $67 in London; Bank of Ireland raises €500 million of term funding
- Markets News Afternoon: Bernanke warns about US budget deficits; Bank of Ireland raises €1bn in equity from bond sales; Dublin only European riser
- Markets News Afternoon: Big stocks selloff in Europe and US; Bank of Ireland falls 14% in Dublin - Citigroup falls 14% in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: BP in key test on leaking well; US weekly jobless benefits claims fall; US industrial production edged up 0.1% in June
- Markets News Afternoon: Brown and Obama focus on the “human dimension” of the economic crisis in advance of Thursday's G-20 summit
- Markets News Afternoon: Car giant GM to begin repaying US government bailout; Shares up in Europe but down in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: Carroll examinership bid continues; Shares slide in Europe
- Markets News Afternoon: Carroll's Zoe group back in High Court; Ryanair adds new routes; UK retail sales/public borrowing rise; US weekly jobless claims also up
- Markets News Afternoon: China becomes world's biggest energy consumer; NAMA acquires loans with value of €5.2bn; Discount of 72% on INBS loans signalling woeful security/paperwork
- Markets News Afternoon: China worries hit stocks; Greek concerns push euro lower
- Markets News Afternoon: Citi falls below $1 in New York; Market cap down to $5.5bn from $277.2 bn in late 2006
- Markets News Afternoon: Citi jumps 53% in New York; Spurs rally in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: Citi reports $4.4bn profit in Q1; AIB associate M&T doubles Q1 profit; Bundesbank says German GDP will dip slightly in Q1
- Markets News Afternoon: Citigroup says "high probability" AIB and Bank of Ireland will be majority-owned by the Government
- Markets News Afternoon: Coughlan moved from Enterprise to Education in Cabinet reshuffle
- Markets News Afternoon: CRH and AIB lead rally in Dublin; Ryanair falls over 5%
- Markets News Afternoon: CRH drop again pushes down ISEQ in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: CRH's Polish unit fined €25.6m; Irish labour disputes soar; Central Bank to add senior staff; US set to lose on bailouts of insurance and car firms
- Markets News Afternoon: Crude oil falls below $40 a barrel in New York for first time since July 2004
- Markets News Afternoon: Davy clients expected to lose $200m investment in US publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/EMPG; Shares rise in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: Demand for ECB 3-month bank funding lower than expected; US private sector jobs increased 13,000 in June
- Markets News Afternoon: Deutsche Bundesbank's Axel Weber says in Dublin more bank capital preferable to Volcker Rule; German exports dip in January; AIB/Amárach Recovery Indicator (ARI) shows consumers putting debt management first
- Markets News Afternoon: Dollar and pound fall; No dramatic moves in Dublin after bank recapitalisation news
- Markets News Afternoon: Donegal County Council on list of tax cheats/defaulters with settlement of €800,000; Shares rise in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: Dow falls below November bear-market closing low; Irish Nationwide's dysfunctional governance system
- Markets News Afternoon: Dow slides 312 points on 79th anniversary of Wall Street Crash
- Markets News Afternoon: Dublin market rises; US continuing jobless benefit claims fall after 17 weeks of record rises
- Markets News Afternoon: Dublin shares plunge more than 6%; US new home sales unexpectedly fell in September
- Markets News Afternoon: Dublin trades value plunges 73% in Q1 2009; CRH powers rise in Irish shares with 6% gain
- Markets News Afternoon: Dutch Central Bank seizes struggling DSB bank; US business economists say recession is over
- Markets News Afternoon: ECB credit survey shows SMEs facing funding problems; US Leading Index in fifth consecutive rise in August
- Markets News Afternoon: ECB lends 224 Eurozone banks €97 billion for 12-month period; Time Magazine selects Fed chairman Bernanke its 2009 'Person of the Year'
- Markets News Afternoon: ECB lends Swedish central bank €3bn as fears of Baltic banking crisis grow; Fed makes $2.7bn on crisis lending and supports in Q1 2009
- Markets News Afternoon: ECB's Jürgen Stark says no bailout for Greece; Shares trade in narrow ranges in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: Economist says Irish public finances correction can only be achieved by combination of modest tax increases and significant cutbacks in public expenditure
- Markets News Afternoon: Elan tumbles 32%; European markets rise; Dublin down 3%
- Markets News Afternoon: Embattled developer Carroll looks to recovery in 2011; Shares in sharp slides in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: Embattled Irish developer Carroll gets temporary protection; European shares fall; Oil price above $74 in London
- Markets News Afternoon: EU business sentiment continues to improve; US retailer and jobless data positive
- Markets News Afternoon: EU leaders discuss financial regulation; US continuing jobless benefit claims in biggest plunge since 2001
- Markets News Afternoon: EU raises duties on Chinese steel; Stocks fall after US consumer confidence dip
- Markets News Afternoon: Euro crosses $1.60 mark; Oil price close to $119 in New York; European shares fall
- Markets News Afternoon: Euro dips below $1.40; Greek PM says problems "home grown"; Clinton and O'Brien make special appeal for Haiti in Davos
- Markets News Afternoon: Euro falls below $1.27 on Greece concerns; US jobless claims fall; US retail sales disappoint
- Markets News Afternoon: Euro falls below $1.40; Lehman plunges 32% in New York and insurance giant AIG tumbles 13%
- Markets News Afternoon: Euro falls below $1.55; Oil price in New York below $111 a barrel
- Markets News Afternoon: Euro falls most against US dollar since June 2004 on poor German business outlook; Stocks fall in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: Euro gains after ECB meeting; Dublin market closes up
- Markets News Afternoon: Euro in biggest daily fall against Dollar as bank bailouts grow; ISEQ rebounds over 7% in Dublin after State bank guarantees - Anglo Irish surges 59%.
- Markets News Afternoon: Euro in biggest daily fall against Dollar as bank bailouts grow; ISEQ rebounds over 7% in Dublin after State bank guarantees - Anglo Irish surges 59%.
- Markets News Afternoon: Euro rises to one-year high against dollar; US home price rise lower than expected signalling fragile housing recovery
- Markets News Afternoon: Euro tops $1.50; Big US banks report earning rises; Boeing reports loss; Lenihan says no new taxes except on carbon
- Markets News Afternoon: European and US stocks fall on earnings and economic concerns
- Markets News Afternoon: European and US stocks fall; Dublin market in sharp decline
- Markets News Afternoon: European and US stocks in red; US jobless claims rise to six-year high
- Markets News Afternoon: European and US stocks in sharp rallies; ISEQ surges 8% in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: European and US stocks rally on China stimulus hopes; In Dublin CRH jumps 10%; AIB slides 18%
- Markets News Afternoon: European and US stocks rise
- Markets News Afternoon: European Commission begins anti-trust action against IBM; Irish exports account for over 90% of GDP - - growth of multinational profits will dampen GNP
- Markets News Afternoon: European markets close down; In Dublin bank stocks fall in range 4%-6%; Elan rises 6%
- Markets News Afternoon: European markets close down; ISEQ down over 5% in Dublin; Ryanair tumbles 22% - Aer Lingus plunges 15%; AIB dives 13%
- Markets News Afternoon: European markets close sharply down: Oil rises after IEA report an fears of Israeli strike on Iran
- Markets News Afternoon: European markets close sharply down: Oil rises after IEA report and fears of Israeli strike on Iran
- Markets News Afternoon: European markets fall; Euro dips below $1.41; Brent crude under $99 a barrel in London
- Markets News Afternoon: European markets in sharp falls; US producer prices surge 9.8% in year to June- a 17-year high; US housing starts plunged 11% in June
- Markets News Afternoon: European markets rally but Dublin pulled down by 9% plunge in Irish Life & Permanent after Moody's downgrade; Microsoft reaffirms interest in Yahoo!
- Markets News Afternoon: European markets rise on news of China's massive $586 billion economic stimulus; US markets slightly down; GM plunges 24% in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: European Parliament approves strictest global rules on bankers' bonuses; US retailers’ sales are growing at the fastest pace in 4 years
- Markets News Afternoon: European shares down; US shares flat despite strong economic data
- Markets News Afternoon: European shares down; US shares flat despite strong economic data
- Markets News Afternoon: European shares fall; Aer Lingus dives 19%; US stocks rise
- Markets News Afternoon: European shares fall; Anglo Irish Bank tumbles over 8% in Dublin; Oil price close to $138 in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: European shares fall; Dublin market in slight rise; Money market interest rates rise
- Markets News Afternoon: European shares fall; Oil price falls $3 in New York on news that China plans to hike petrol prices 18%
- Markets News Afternoon: European shares rise; Iceland plunges 77%; Irish bank shares mixed; US euphoria fades
- Markets News Afternoon: European shares rise; US flat
- Markets News Afternoon: European shares rise; US markets also up despite grim economic data
- Markets News Afternoon: European stock rise; Dublin market partly recovers from Friday's washout; US stocks fall
- Markets News Afternoon: European stocks drop for fifth-straight day; Oil price falls below $61 in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: European stocks fall but Dublin rises with financials up again
- Markets News Afternoon: European stocks fall sharply; US markets rise
- Markets News Afternoon: European stocks fall to 1996 lows; US pending home sales drop 7.7% in January; Ford sales down 46% in February
- Markets News Afternoon: European stocks fall; Elan plunges 7.49% in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: European stocks fall; Irish financials and CRH down sharply in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: European stocks fall; Irish shares rise slightly boosted by Ryanair, Elan and Norkom; Oil price close to $135 in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: European stocks fell Monday: Oil price above $137 in New York after retreating from record high
- Markets News Afternoon: European stocks in biggest plunge since 1987; Irish bank shares tumble; Euro and oil prices on slide
- Markets News Afternoon: European stocks in sharp falls; US consumer prices in biggest tumble in 61 years
- Markets News Afternoon: European stocks in sharp rally; Dublin bank shares surge; AIB rises 12% - biggest daily gain since 1989; Pakistani investors stone Karachi Exchange as stocks plunge
- Markets News Afternoon: European stocks rally; AIB Bank surges almost 15% in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: European stocks rally; Anglo Irish jumps 50% in Dublin; IL&P up 42%; Oil price rises to $69 in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: European stocks rise but Dublin closes down; JPMorgan Chase completes $2.2bn Bear Stearns deal: Expects to generate $1bn in after-tax earnings from investment bank by 2009
- Markets News Afternoon: European stocks rise but Dublin market falls
- Markets News Afternoon: European stocks rise Friday; US dollar and crude oil advances
- Markets News Afternoon: European stocks rise: Oil price falls almost $4 in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: European stocks rise; Dow Chemical - the largest US chemical maker - raises prices of all products by 20%
- Markets News Afternoon: European stocks rise; Dublin boosted by Bank of Ireland surge
- Markets News Afternoon: European stocks rise; IL&P and AIB surge in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: European stocks rise; Irish bank shares make sharp gains; US indexes drop
- Markets News Afternoon: European stocks rise; Oil falls towards $121 in New York; EUR/USD rate below $1.56; Dublin market pares losses but still in red
- Markets News Afternoon: European stocks rise; Oil price falls below $118 in New York; EUR/USD rate at $1.54; Anglo Irish Bank jumps 13%
- Markets News Afternoon: European stocks rise; Oil price falls to $114 in New York; USD/Euro rate still below $1.56
- Markets News Afternoon: European stocks rise; Oil price stays over $134 in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: European stocks rise; US markets mixed
- Markets News Afternoon: European stocks rise; US stocks fall
- Markets News Afternoon: European stocks rose but Dublin closed down
- Markets News Afternoon: European stocks slide; Oil price falls towards $50 in New York; Citi falls 14%
- Markets News Afternoon: Eurozone private lending contracts for first time since 1983; AIB and BoI dip in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: Eurozone retail sales dip in September; Shares fall in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: Eurozone support plan for Greece mired in confusion; Trichet says loans should have no subsidy element and require extraordinary situation
- Markets News Afternoon: FBD warns on cost of flooding; Citi to repay $20bn bailout support to US government; Eurozone lost 712,000 jobs in Q3 2009
- Markets News Afternoon: Fed Bank of New York meeting gives investors hope that a publicly guaranteed bridging loan for embattled AIG is on the table; US oil price below $92
- Markets News Afternoon: Fed says full recovery from US recession to take more than 2 or 3 years; In Dublin the ISEQ recovers from 14-year low
- Markets News Afternoon: Fed's Bernanke says US economy faces "numerous difficulties"; Oil price plunges almost $7 in New York: European stocks tumble; Il&P down 13% in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: Financials lead rallies in Europe and US; BoI up over 30% in Dublin; Citi up over 40% in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: Financials lead sharp rallies in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: Fitch Ratings says Greek and Irish banks’ reliance on European Central Bank loans is out of proportion to the size of their assets
- Markets News Afternoon: G-20 summit begins; INM calls EGM; AIB raises €1 billion; Shares down in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: GE reports smaller profit decline than expected; Citi profit surprises; US consumer confidence rises
- Markets News Afternoon: Geithner says “vast majority” of US banks have more capital than needed; IMF says the opposite
- Markets News Afternoon: General Motors bankruptcy filing is seen as inevitable; Merkel meeting in Berlin on GM's Opel brand
- Markets News Afternoon: General Motors falls 21% to 1933 low; Stocks slide in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: General Motors' market cap plunges to 1929 level; Stocks fall in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: German billionaire Adolf Merckle commits suicide after big investment losses
- Markets News Afternoon: German government signals recession not yet over; Latvia's economy plunges nearly one-fifth of its value in second quarter
- Markets News Afternoon: German industrial output dips in October - - UK flat; Shares slide on recovery fears
- Markets News Afternoon: German manufacturing orders rise in May; UK orders fall; CRH boosts Dublin market; Stocks down in Europe/US
- Markets News Afternoon: Germany refuses to bailout retail giant Arcandor; Smurfit Kappa gets better debt terms; US gasoline price up 18% in month; Treasury to accept $68bn in bank bailout refunds
- Markets News Afternoon: Global markets in sharp slide on Korean tensions and Spanish banking troubles; Germany extends short selling ban
- Markets News Afternoon: Goldman Sachs cuts global economy forecast to 1% dip; Stocks rise in Europe - down slightly in US
- Markets News Afternoon: Goldman Sachs downgrade hits banking stocks in US and Europe; Shares fall steeply in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: Goldman Sachs downgrade hits banking stocks in US and Europe; Shares fall steeply in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: Greece want talks on multi-year support; US industrial production up in March; Iceland's ash creates flight disruption
- Markets News Afternoon: Grim US jobs data sends stocks down in Europe and US; Oil price in New York falls below $40
- Markets News Afternoon: High Court rejects Carroll's second examinership bid - - criticises KPMG business plan; Shares rise in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: Honohan says Irish banks have good prospects; Shares fall in Europe; Oil price falls and US dollar rises
- Markets News Afternoon: Iceland's banking crash report catalogues litany of failures; Citi to cut assets by 40%
- Markets News Afternoon: IMF cuts growth forecasts for Germany; US home prices rise
- Markets News Afternoon: In New York - Bank of America tumbles 21%; Citigroup plunges 17%; Oil price close to $35
- Markets News Afternoon: Independent News & Media PLC sells UK-based Independent titles for Stg£1; Initial weekly jobless claims dip in US
- Markets News Afternoon: Independent News & Media says restructuring talks have "advanced significantly"; European Commission supports Dell aid in Poland
- Markets News Afternoon: Inflation in OECD countries falls to lowest in at least 38 years; Oil price rises: Europe stocks up; CRH sinks Dublin market
- Markets News Afternoon: INM gets approaches on stake in APN; Shares jump 25% in Dublin; ISEQ up 8% - BoI jumps 41%; Glanbia and Elan rise 16%
- Markets News Afternoon: INM signs deal with bondholders; Germany’s manufacturing orders up in August; Aer Lingus rises 12%
- Markets News Afternoon: Insurance giant AIG plunges 55% in New York - Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway in talks with insurer; Oil price falls below $93 in London
- Markets News Afternoon: Intel announces $7 billion US investments; Stocks slide in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: International Energy Agency revises up 2009 oil demand forecast
- Markets News Afternoon: Ireland raises €1.5bn in new debt - -14th biggest holder of US Treasuries at $39bn; Ecofin piles more pressure on Greece; Oil price rises towards $77 in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: Irish and UK bank shares tumble; US and European markets fall
- Markets News Afternoon: Irish bank shares slide in Dublin; US consumer spending rose in February - - personal income was flat
- Markets News Afternoon: Irish banks rise in Dublin; US data mixed -- weekly jobless claims down; pending second-hand home sales dip in January; retail sales rise in February
- Markets News Afternoon: Irish financials plunge again in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: Irish Government debt raising of €33.8bn in 2009 viewed as "success"; Shares down in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: Irish manufacturing industries annual production increased by 9.5% in May 2010 as pharmaceutical output surged
- Markets News Afternoon: Irish manufacturing prices fell in June on weaker US dollar; ECB says bank lending to Eurozone's private sector picked up slightly in June
- Markets News Afternoon: Irish market rises 4%; Oil price at $114 in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: Irish new car sales fell 62% in 2009; Irish market pulled down by 4% dip in CRH shares; US factory orders rose in November
- Markets News Afternoon: Irish Services Producer Prices down 4.1% in 2009; EU trade deficit up; Initial weekly jobless benefit claims fall 5,000 in US
- Markets News Afternoon: Irish shares dip; Finance ministers push Greeks on further cuts; O'Leary wants to meet Coughlan on 300 Dublin Airport jobs - - doesn't say what he's looking for
- Markets News Afternoon: Irish shares fall after S&P ratings downgrade; Obama administration announces projects to create or save 600,000 jobs
- Markets News Afternoon: Irish shares plunge in Dublin; CRH down 12%; Aer Lingus slides 9%; McInerney tumbles 27%
- Markets News Afternoon: Irish shares rally in Dublin; Pan-European Stoxx Index up 14% in April - - the best month since 1987
- Markets News Afternoon: Irish tax revenue to fall to €34bn - - down 16% on 2008; Irish shares rise; FTI Consulting advises "clearing house" for Irish distressed bank debt
- Markets News Afternoon: ISEQ plunges over 5% in Dublin; Greencore tumbles 21%; C&C dives 12%; Top US mortgage guarantee firms plunge over 30%; Oil price tops $146 in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: Italy's Intesa Sanpaolo considering bid for Allied Irish Bank's stake in Polish bank Bank Zachodni WBK
- Markets News Afternoon: Italy's public debt increases; Public finances in Greece improve
- Markets News Afternoon: Jobs in Eurozone fell 702,000 in Q2 of 2009; Carroll appeals to Supreme Court; Fleming Construction to seek extension of examinership
- Markets News Afternoon: Johnson & Johnson in $1.5bn deal with Elan; Shares surge in Dublin but ISEQ in red; Stocks down sharply in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: JP Morgan Chase to add 9,000 US jobs in 2010; Shares up in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: JPMorgan Chase earnings surprise boosts banking shares; Dow heads towards 10,000 again; Shares rise in Europe
- Markets News Afternoon: KPMG says UK banks to post retail unit losses on bad loans; Shares slightly down in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: Labour Party says NAMA discount should be 50%; Shares rise in Europe and US; Dollar down - gold up
- Markets News Afternoon: Lenihan welcomes resignation of Denis Casey as CE of Irish Life & Permanent; Politicians remain in Pontius Pilate mode
- Markets News Afternoon: Markets rally in response to Eurozone emergency measures; OECD composite leading indicators point to slowdown in pace of expansion
- Markets News Afternoon: Markets rise in Europe and US: Dublin falls on steep plunge in bank stocks
- Markets news Afternoon: Merkel says Greece must accept tough measures for several years; Visa Europe agrees to cut debit card charges
- Markets News Afternoon: Microsoft announces worldwide availability of new Windows 7; Shares down in Europe - - up in US
- Markets News Afternoon: More than 1 million US homes are now in foreclosure; Oil price rises to $124 in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: More than 57 million will be unemployed in OECD countries by end 2010; Receiver appointed to Setanta UK
- Markets News Afternoon: Most Irish pension funds are in deficit; Private sector workers lucky to have pensions face reduced benefits
- Markets News Afternoon: New York markets calmer following Wednesday's high drama; European shares fall
- Markets News Afternoon: Nokia cuts second quarter financial forecast; BP agrees with White House on $20bn oil spill damages fund
- Markets News Afternoon: Nokia share price slides over 14%; Ryanair to pay compo to delayed passengers; Eurostat revises up Greece's 2009 deficit
- Markets News Afternoon: Obama says - - "We will not let our auto industry simply vanish"
- Markets News Afternoon: Obama says - - "We will not let our auto industry simply vanish"
- Markets News Afternoon: Oil plunges $5 in New York; Siemens to shed almost 17,000 jobs; ISEQ falls 4% in Dublin as Irish bank shares tumble
- Markets News Afternoon: Oil price falls below $111 in New York after Hurricane Gustav downgraded to Category Two; Euro trading below $1.46 and above £0.81
- Markets News Afternoon: Oil price falls below $127 in New York; Aer Lingus rises 8% - AIB falls 7% in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: Oil price falls below $132 in New York; Slight movements in stocks; Dublin rises 5 points
- Markets News Afternoon: Oil price falls to $116 in New York; Euro below $1.51; Ryanair surges 11%
- Markets News Afternoon: Oil price hits new record of $122.81 in New York; EUR/USD rate below $1.54; All 18 Western European markets rise
- Markets News Afternoon: Oil price hits new record price close to $127 a barrel in New York; Dublin's ISEQ Index closes down; Greencore off over 8%
- Markets News Afternoon: Oil price moves towards $62 in New York; Dollar falls to $1.38 versus the Euro
- Markets News Afternoon: Oil price retreats from record above $117; European stocks fall; Euro rises on ECB comment on inflation threat
- Markets News Afternoon: Oil price rises to $118 in New York: In Dublin IL&P surges 9%; Anglo Irish rises 7% and Elan tumbles 8%
- Markets News Afternoon: Oil price surges above $122 in New York - up 96% from a year ago
- Markets News Afternoon: Oil price surges above $132 in New York; Stocks down in Europe and US; Ryanair falls over 6% in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: Oil price surges almost $6 to above $121 in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: Oil price tumbles to $135 in New York; European and US stocks rise
- Markets News Afternoon: Oil prices in New York below $70; Euro above $1.23; General Motors reports first quarterly profit in three years
- Markets News Afternoon: Oil prices rise as US dollar falls
- Markets News Afternoon: Oil retreats from new record above $126 a barrel in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: Oil rises to new record close to $144 a barrel: Irish Life & Permanent plunges more than 10% in Dublin on Standard & Poor's downgrade
- Markets News Afternoon: One year after bear market 12 year lows in US and Europe when Warren Buffett said the US economy had "fallen off a cliff"
- Markets News Afternoon: Permanent TSB to cut 120 jobs; Shares rise in Europe
- Markets News Afternoon: Ponzi fraudster Madoff sentenced to 150 years in prison; Land case against food group Aryzta dismissed
- Markets News Afternoon: Productivity of US workers grew in the second quarter at the fastest pace in almost 6 years
- Markets News Afternoon: Qualceram/Shires out of Examinership; Shares rise in Europe and US; China's foreign exchange reserves surged to record $2.13 trillion at end of June
- Markets News Afternoon: Quinn Group appoints financial restructuring firm; NAMA chief says some incomplete projects may be demolished
- Markets News Afternoon: Quinn Insurance restrictions on UK sales eased; Greece heads towards bail-out; Cowen says BoI pension top-up should be refused
- Markets News Afternoon: Record 19 million US houses stood empty at the end of 2008 on surge in foreclosures
- Markets News Afternoon: Ryanair seeks Government answer on Dec 2008 Aer Lingus offer rejection; Trichet in no rush to hike rates
- Markets News Afternoon: Ryanair traffic up 19% in July; Supergambler Goldman Sachs made $100m+ in trading income on 46 days in Q2 2009
- Markets News Afternoon: Ryanair's O'Leary accuses Cowen of lying as truth behind Dublin Airport saga remains unclear; Shares rise in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: Ryanair’s June traffic grew by 15%; Drumm offers to settle Anglo Irish debt
- Markets News Afternoon: S&P downgrades Irish banks; Tullow agrees Uganda deal with heritage; Shares trade in narrow ranges
- Markets News Afternoon: Sell off in shares in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: Share prices rise in Europe and Asia; Irish hotel prices fall 21% in year
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares dip in Europe and US; Initial US weekly jobless claims fall; White House expects average monthly jobs gain of 95,000
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares down in Europe and US on worries about the $700 billion plan to rescue Wall Street
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares down in Europe and US; Australia's PM Kevin Rudd calls party vote on his leadership
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares down in Europe and US; Irish Central Bank appoints outsider as Assistant DG for Financial Institutions Supervision
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares drop sharply in Europe and US; Oil price falls to $55 in London; EUR/USD rate below 1.26
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares fall in Dublin; Inventories at US wholesalers unexpectedly dipped in December indicating rise in demand
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares fall in Europe and rise in US
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares fall in Europe and US on wobbly housing data; US dollar rises
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares fall in Europe and US; Bank of Ireland jumps 24% in Dublin; US business activity expands in March but at slower pace
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares fall in Europe and US; IL&P down 12% in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares fall in Europe and US; Senate panel votes for Bernanke; US weekly jobless claims rise
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares fall in Europe and US; US jobless benefit claims rise and consumer inflation falls
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares fall in Europe and US; US jobless benefit claims rise and consumer inflation falls
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares fall in Europe; Switzerland's parliament rejects anti-tax evasion bill
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares fall slightly in Europe and US from Monday's highs; NTMA to auction Irish government bonds next week
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares in Europe and US rise; Anglo Irish Bank falls 17%
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares in sharp slide in Europe and the US; UK manufacturing output growth rate in April highest since 1994
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares in sharp slide in Europe and US; US initial jobless claims in surprise rise
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares in sharp slide in Europe; Rebound from lows in US; Oil below $71 in New York - at $66 in London
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares in sharp slides in Europe and US; Eurozone loses 1.2m jobs in Q1 2009; Irish Stock Exchange loses €15.5m in 2008
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares rally again on Wall Street giving Europe a boost; Bill published to control no-control big spending agency FÁS
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares rally in Dublin; US service activity rises
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares rally in Europe and US; Citi may sue Wachovia over switch of partners; Wall Street Rescue Bill passes by 263-171
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares rally in Europe and US; General Electric surges after Goldman Sachs upgrade
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares rally in Europe and US; US construction spending fell in November
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares rally in Europe/US; Irish electricity demand falls again; State to become big shareholder in new EBS/Irish Nationwide lender
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares rally in US and Europe; EU's current account deficit with China at -€30.9bn in Q1 2010
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares rebound in Europe and US after US GDP data; Oil price back above $80 in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares rebound in Europe; Profit of S&P 500 companies forecast to jump 34% in 2010
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares rise after China denies review of €512bn of Eurozone bond holdings; Q1 US GDP revised down to annualised rise of 3%
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares rise in Europe - flat in US; ECB reports balance of payments deficit of €42.4b in Q1 2009; Iceland to apply to join EU
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares rise in Europe and Asia; BoI plans new bonds buyback
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares rise in Europe and dip in US; Fed outlines future plans to exit from emergency measures
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares rise in Europe and Dublin; US closed for holiday; AIB court action against insolvent ZOE Group listed for haring
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares rise in Europe and fall in Dublin; Luas numbers dipped in 2009
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares rise in Europe and the US; Bernanke supports second US fiscal stimulus
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares rise in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares rise in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares rise in Europe and US on hopes of passage of the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares rise in Europe and US; Aer Lingus board to review progress on restructuring talks
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares rise in Europe and US; Business groups and trade unions call for Government investment in Ireland’s infrastructure
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares rise in Europe and US; European Commission announces bank levy plans
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares rise in Europe and US; Greece gets first support advance from Eurozone governments
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares slide after dip in US consumer confidence; European Commission extends State bank guarantee
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares slide in Europe and US; Fed to investigate Goldman Sachs and other banks' roles in hiding Greek public borrowings
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares slide in Europe and US; Spain's exit from recession confirmed; BoI shareholders back capital raising
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares slide in Europe and US; US factory orders rose in September; Buffett makes “all-in wager on the economic future of the United States”
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares slide in US and Europe in response to consumer data; Fitch downgrades Greek banks close to junk status
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares slide on Dubai default worries; London Stock Exchange resumes after technical hitch
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares trade in narrow range; Oil price above $72 in New York; GM agrees sale of Saab Automobile
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares trade in tight ranges in Europe and US; Developer Bernard McNamara cannot discharge judgement of €62.5m; Heineken acquires Mexican brewery
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares tumble in Europe and US: Irish Life & Permanent plunges over 10% in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares up slightly in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: Shares, oil and Euro rise; Bernanke says Fed will act as needed to aid financial stability and economic growth
- Markets News Afternoon: Sharp sell-offs in stocks in Europe and US; ISEQ plunges 13% in Dublin; Anglo Irish Bank dives 46%; Oil price sinks $8 in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: Sharp stocks sell-off in Europe and US: Euro/USD rate falls below $1.44
- Markets News Afternoon: Slight movements in shares in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: Slight rise in US home prices in February; Ryanair may close its base at Dusseldorf-Weeze
- Markets News Afternoon: Smurfit Kappa to cut 140 jobs in Cork; US firm Bausch & Lomb to move 120 jobs from Waterford to New York; Stocks rise in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: Somers to join AIB board: European Commission approves restructuring of bailed out banks Lloyds, ING and KBC
- Markets News Afternoon: Standard & Poor's says Irish house prices will fall 40% from 2007 peak in 2010; Shares rise in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: Standard & Poor's today cut Greece’s rating to junk status; Portugal downgraded; Shares slide in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: Sterling falls to record low against the Euro
- Markets News Afternoon: Stock plunge in Europe; Oil price drops to $34 in New York; Bank of Ireland tumbles 37% in Dublin; AIB slides 48%
- Markets News Afternoon: Stock up in Europe but down in US; Anglo Irish plunges 25% in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks close down in Europe; Elan gains less than 3% on sale prospect
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks down in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks down in Europe and US; Cowen to axe up to 5 Irish Junior Ministers
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks down in Europe and US; Oil surges to new record of above $126 in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks down sharply in Europe and US; AIB Bank surges in Dublin; CEO of Texas financial firm charged with $8bn fraud
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks down sharply in Europe and US; ISEQ tumbles over 8% in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks fall in Dublin and New York; Oil price rises close to $137 a barrel
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks fall in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks fall in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks fall in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks fall in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks fall in Europe and US after worst monthly jobs data since December 1974; Oil price falls below $40 in London
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks fall in Europe and US on earnings worries; CRH rises over 9% in Dublin; EUR/USD rate falls to $1.31
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks fall in Europe and US where existing home sales dropped in June
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks fall in Europe and US: CRH rises almost 4% in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks fall in Europe and US: Sun price premium from expected IBM deal to exceed 100%
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks fall in Europe and US; CRH dips 5% in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks fall in Europe and US; CRH dips 5% in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks fall in Europe and US; FBD plunges almost 9% in Dublin; Icon rises 4.75%
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks fall in Europe and US; Finance Ireland delists in Dublin and London
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks fall in Europe and US; Oil back above $135 on fears of Israeli strike against Iran's nuclear facilities
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks fall in Europe and US; Oil price drops to $51 in London
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks fall in Europe and US; Oil price in New York declined to $113
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks fall in Europe and US; Oil price moves towards $110 a barrel in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks fall sharply in Europe and US; Oil price falls below $72 in London
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks in Europe in strong close; Irish market in slight fall; Irish Life and Permanent plunges 12%
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks in sharp fall in Europe; Bank of Ireland falls over 19% to less than 1 euro
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks in sharp falls in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks in sharp slide in Europe and US as global manufacturing contracts from US to China
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks in sharp slide in Europe and US on renewed credit worries; Oil price rises to $115 in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks in sharp slide in Europe and US; Oil price falls to $53 in London; Sterling falls to £0.84 against Euro
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks in sharp slides in Europe and US; Dow below 7,000; Irish bank issues rise in Dublin; Elan tumbles 12%
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks in slight moves in Europe and US; AIB down 10% in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks make small gains in Europe and US; Aer Lingus dives almost 30% in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks plunge in Europe and US despite global interest rate cut; Irish bank shares tumble again
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks rally in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks rally in Europe and US after surprise rise in US GDP; Oil falls to $115 in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks rally in Europe and US on auto bailout and Obama plan for infrastructure spending boost
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks rally in Europe; Grim global forecasts in advance of G-20 summit; Big 4 accounting firm Ernst & Young to cut Irish pay by 7.5%
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks rally in Europe; US markets also rise
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks rally in New York; Oil price above $69 in London; Irish banks expected to submit plans to the EU
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks rebound in Europe; Oil retreats from records above $146 in London and $145 in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks retreat in Europe and US; Oil price falls to $130 in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks rise in Europe and US: Oil price falls below $47 in London
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks rise in Europe and US: Sales of existing US homes fell to a 10-year low in the second quarter
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks rise in Europe and US; AIB and Bank of Ireland slide in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks rise in Europe and US; Anglo Irish Bank falls 15% in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks rise in Europe and US; Anglo Irish Bank hopes to buy back $4.6 billion of subordinated debt
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks rise in Europe and US; Bank of Ireland down 15% in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks rise in Europe and US; Court appoints examiner to unit of Cork construction group Fleming
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks rise in Europe and US; Elan up over 10% in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks rise in Europe and US; Oil above $126; US S&P earnings excluding oil companies worst in at least a decade
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks rise in Europe and US; Oil price falls almost $4 in New York to below $133 a barrel
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks rise in Europe; US markets await bank bailout plan
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks rise on hopes of approval of Obama stimulus plan and announcement Monday of new US bank rescue scheme
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks rise strongly in Europe; Germany's Deutsche Bank jumps 22%; Irish financial shares rise again
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks slide in Europe and US as sovereign debt worries rise; Euro below $1.38; Trichet says ECB’s interest rate are “appropriate”
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks slide on China recovery fears; Oil price dips below $70
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks surge in Europe and US - Dublin rise held back by 15% falls in AIB and BoI; Irish airlines jump 9%
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks trade in narrow ranges in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks up in Europe and US; Oil price below $109 in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: Stocks up in Europe; down in US
- Markets News Afternoon: The Irish economy contracted by 7.1% in 2009; Shares fall in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: Trichet says bond purchases to continue; Energy sector boosts US stocks
- Markets News Afternoon: Trichet says Euribor rise not a signal from the ECB; US initial jobless claims fall; DAA accuses Ryanair of lying
- Markets News Afternoon: Trichet says global economy showing signs of emerging from recession; German manufacturing orders in big rise in July
- Markets News Afternoon: Trichet says no special favours for Greece; US retail sales down in December - - weekly jobless claims up
- Markets News Afternoon: Trichet says risk renewed financial turmoil could hamper an economic recovery; Shares in sharp slide; Oil below $67
- Markets News Afternoon: Trichet says the world will emerge from its economic slump next year; Oil price falls below $38 in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: Trichet says world has avoided an "extremely threatening" depression; USD/EUR above $1.50; Dow hits 52-week high
- Markets News Afternoon: UK economy shrinks most in Q4 2008 since 1980; Irish financial rise in Dublin; GE's net plunges 44%
- Markets News Afternoon: UK manufacturing output rises at fastest pace in 15 years; Goldman's profit plunges on trading income dip, fine and bonus tax
- Markets News Afternoon: UK may lose its AAA credit rating; Share prices fall in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: UK sets new rules for mortgages; AIB and BoI down in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: Unutilized American manufacturing capacity highest since at least 1967; Consumer prices in biggest annual fall since 1955
- Markets News Afternoon: US announces sweeping financial rescue plan; Stocks in huge rally in Europe and US; Irish bank shares in record rises
- Markets News Afternoon: US budget deficit to rise to $1.75 trillion; Jobless claims surge to 26-year high; New home sales down 10.2% in January and 48.2% in year
- Markets News Afternoon: US Consumer Confidence fall in June sends stocks sliding; Irish and UK economies in record growth tumbles
- Markets News Afternoon: US consumer confidence surge boosts markets in US and Europe
- Markets News Afternoon: US consumer prices and industrial production rose in August; Shares advance in Europe
- Markets News Afternoon: US data boosts stocks; Ford surprises with quarterly profit; Irish bank shares fall in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: US dollar falls to almost 1-year low against other major currencies; Shares rise in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Afternoon: US foreclosures fall for first time in 4 years; US weekly jobless benefit claims dip for fourth straight month
- Markets News Afternoon: US GDP data sinks stocks
- Markets News Afternoon: US GDP falls to adjusted 6.2% annual rate in Q4 2008; US government's stake in Citi to rise to 36% - Stock price plunges over 30%
- Markets News Afternoon: US industrial production was flat in February; China held $889bn in Treasury securities in January - - Ireland held $$39bn
- Markets News Afternoon: US jobless benefit claims remain at 1982 high; Factory orders fall to 8-year low; Stocks down in US and Europe
- Markets News Afternoon: US jobless claims hit 26-year high signalling strong recessionary headwinds; Sterling falls to new low against the euro
- Markets News Afternoon: US Leading Economic Index increased sharply in December; Goldman Sachs reports record profits; Shares fall in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: US Leading Index rises in October; Shares slide in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: US Leading Index rose in January for 10th straight month; UK deficit in January hit record high
- Markets News Afternoon: US manufacturing expands in February for seventh consecutive month; Prudential to buy AIG's Asian life insurance unit for $35.5bn
- Markets News Afternoon: US manufacturing grows strongly in January - - construction spending fell in December; Shares rise in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: US manufacturing growth slows in June; US initial weekly jobless benefit claims rise; US pending home sales dipped 30% in May
- Markets News Afternoon: US manufacturing sector activity expanded in September but pace eased; Shares slide in US and Europe; German retail sales fell in August
- Markets News Afternoon: US manufacturing sector grew in May at slower pace - - construction spending increased in April; HP to cut 9,000 jobs; BP's shares plunge 13%
- Markets News Afternoon: US markets rally in expectation of Obama victory
- Markets News Afternoon: US new home sales fell in 2009 to lowest level since at least 1963; Shares down in Europe and US; Tullow raises £925m
- Markets News Afternoon: US new home sales jumped 11% in June; Stocks fall in New York and Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: US new home sales unexpectedly jumped in October; Budget Travel in liquidation with loss of 172 jobs; ESRI report supports single pensions tax relief rate
- Markets News Afternoon: US Q2 GDP confirmed at annual 1% fall; Europe and US markets down; ISEQ rises in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: US recession fears hit markets; Dublin rises 5% after passage of State guarantee legislation for Irish banks
- Markets News Afternoon: US regulators seek to quell fears about banks; Stocks down in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: US retail sales fell in April; Germany agrees on 'bad bank"; ISEQ down 4% in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: US retail sales unexpectedly fell in August; Insurance giant AIG plunges 23% in New York
- Markets News Afternoon: US savings rate rises; European stocks fall
- Markets News Afternoon: US service sector contracted in November at rapid rate; Anglo Irish Bank falls 25%
- Markets News Afternoon: US service sector contracted in November; Little change on stock markets
- Markets News Afternoon: US service sector contracts more than expected in March
- Markets News Afternoon: US service sector expanded in September after 11 months of falls; Irish banks may raise new capital of $17bn
- Markets News Afternoon: US service sector improves; continuing jobless claims up 92,000; Shares rise in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: US services contracted in June at slowest pace in 9 months; Shares down in Europe/US; Sharp falls in Dublin; Oil below $64 in London
- Markets News Afternoon: US services data and Pfizer a drag on stocks
- Markets News Afternoon: US services sector grew in February at its fastest pace in more than two years; Shares rise in Europe and US
- Markets News Afternoon: US shares' rally pulls Europe up
- Markets News Afternoon: US single-family home starts rise; IMF says global recovery underway; NTMA raises €1 billion
- Markets News Afternoon: US stocks rally; Number of Irish mortgages rose in Q2 but total lending fell each month
- Markets News Afternoon: US stocks rise on positive earnings from Boeing, EMC, Philip Morris as well as insurance industry bid; Most European markets close up
- Markets News Afternoon: US stocks surge in response to bank plan; Stocks in Europe also rise
- Markets News Afternoon: US weekly initial jobless claims fall; Banks in Eurozone's peripheral economies becoming more reliant on funding from European Central Bank
- Markets News Afternoon: US weekly jobless claims rise - - partly because of holiday factors
- Markets News Afternoon: USD/EUR rate at $1.40; Oil price above $61 in New York; Saudi oil minister says price will climb to $75 a barrel when demand picks up
- Markets News Afternoon: Votes on bank rescue schemes due Wednesday in Dublin and Washington DC: Ford's US car sales plunged 35% in September
- Markets News Afternoon: Wall Street up slightly after grim day on Thursday; Citi plunges 15% - third straight double-digit loss
- Markets News Afternoon: Warren Buffett says US turnaround "won't happen fast"; ISEQ at 14-year low in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon: Waterford Crystal brand rebirth in Waterford; US existing-home sales rose in 2009 but plunged in December related to tax credit
- Markets News Afternoon: Web advertising overtakes TV in UK; Irish construction output dips by 39.3% in Q2 2009; Shares slide in US and Europe
- Markets News Afternoon: Wednesday is first anniversary of Irish State banking guarantee; Secret €4bn IL&P loan to Anglo Irish Bank
- Markets News Afternoon: Yahoo! and Microsoft in link-up; Oil price dips $4; Some Element Six jobs may be saved
- Markets News Afternoon: Irish Employment Subsidy Scheme to be extended; Shares slide in Dublin
- Markets News Afternoon; Dollar in record daily fall against Euro; Pound falls to record low of £0.93 per Euro
- Markets News Afternoon; Dublin heads European market losses; Oil price above $136 in New York
- Markets News Afternoon; European stocks fall; Dublin market rises; US markets closed for holiday
- Markets News Afternoon; Fed reports rise in US industrial production; IATA says global airlines will lose $5.6bn in 2009; ACCBank opposes Fleming Construction rescue plan in Supreme Court
- Markets News Afternoon; NTMA raises €1.5bn in loans; Greece 10-year bond yield rises to 7.81%; 20-person EU-ECB-IMF team in Athens
- Markets News Afternoon; Shares rise in Europe and US; Sterling falls after Bank of England report
- Markets News Afternoon; Stocks up in Europe and US rise despite swine flu scare; Irish/Swiss food group Aryzta confirms High Court action by McNamara/Morrissey property vehicle
- Markets News Afternoon; US Q1 GDP fall cut; US stocks up - - Europe closes down; Aer Lingus to charge $50 for second check-in bag on US routes
- Markets News Afternoon; US retail sales fell in July; Stocks up in Europe and US
- Markets News Friday UK remained in recession in Q3 2009; Amazon reports bumper results; EUR/USD over $1.50; Oil over $81 in New York
- Markets News Friday: Aer Lingus plunges 21%; AIB and BoI rise in Dublin
- Markets News Friday: AIB rises in Dublin after reported Canadian interest
- Markets News Friday: April was big month for shares; Europe up 14% - - best month since 1987; S&P 500 rose 9.4% - - best April since 1938
- Markets News Friday: Bank of America CEO to get $53m pension pot; Irish car sales fall 35% in September; Irish insolvencies up 127% in 2009
- Markets News Friday: Bank of America gets $138 billion emergency lifeline from the US government
- Markets News Friday: Bank of England policymaker says bank fighting to protect UK from threat of decade-long depression like Japan's
- Markets News Friday: Bank of Ireland confirms rise in mortgage rates; Shares rise in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Friday: BP caps leaking oil well in Gulf of Mexico -- verdict on move will take up to 24 hours
- Markets News Friday: BP stops oil leak on Day 86 in Gulf of Mexico: US Senate passes financial reform bill; Wall Street has spent $600m on lobbying since January 2009
- Markets News Friday: Brent crude price above $146 in London; UBS says it may avoid a loss in Q2; Nikkei 225 in longest losing streak in 54 years
- Markets News Friday: Bundesbank raises German economic forecasts for 2010 and 2011; Cyclical recovery of economy has accelerated markedly
- Markets News Friday: Central banks flood inter-bank markets with $290 billion in funds to ease credit strains
- Markets News Friday: Dubai World worries ease in Europe; Total Produce buys UK company; US prepares for Black Friday - - the day for shopaholics
- Markets News Friday: Dukes to become Anglo chairman; HSBC confirms theft of Swiss CD with names of 24,000 French clients
- Markets News Friday: Eircom controlling shareholder Babcock & Brown collapses; INM surges in Dublin
- Markets News Friday: Elan plunges 65% in Dublin after Tysabri report: Greenspan says US is “nowhere near the bottom” of the housing slump and is “right on the brink” of a recession
- Markets News Friday: Elan subject of takeover speculation in New York
- Markets News Friday: Embattled Lehman Brothers scrambles for buyer
- Markets News Friday: Euro falls to a five-month low against the US dollar - down towards $1.51
- Markets News Friday: European and Asia-Pacific stocks fall; Oil price at $131 in New York and $132 in London
- Markets News Friday: European and Asian stocks fall; Dublin market rises
- Markets News Friday: European car sales fell 1.6% in 2009 - - Germany up 23%; Ireland down 62%; Shares rise in Europe and Asia; Oil price falls
- Markets News Friday: European markets rise
- Markets News Friday: European shares fall to a 6-month low; BA reports record loss
- Markets News Friday: European shares inch up; New York AG Cuomo slams "The Heads I Win, Tails You Lose Bank Bonus Culture"
- Markets News Friday: European shares inch up; New York AG Cuomo slams "The Heads I Win, Tails You Lose Bank Bonus Culture"
- Markets News Friday: European shares rise to year high; Regional Stoxx 600 index’s valuation at 49.5 times earnings
- Markets News Friday: European shares slightly down; EUR/USD rate falls to $1.38; Recession fears triggered plunge on Wall Street
- Markets News Friday: European stocks fall: Oil price rises to $117 in New York
- Markets News Friday: European stocks fall; IL&P rises over 10% in Dublin; Oil price drops towards $34 in New York
- Markets News Friday: European stocks fall; Lloyds Banking Group expects loss in 2009
- Markets News Friday: European stocks fall; Oil price in New York above $136; Dollar/Euro rate at $1.5416
- Markets News Friday: European stocks in sharp falls in response to collapse of US auto rescue deal; Sterling hits new low against the Euro
- Markets News Friday: European stocks rise
- Markets News Friday: European stocks rise strongly following Wall Street rally
- Markets News Friday: European stocks rise; Euro remains below $1.55; Oil price below $113 in New York
- Markets News Friday: European stocks rise; Oil price above $121 in New York
- Markets News Friday: European stocks rise; Oil price falls towards $132 in New York
- Markets News Friday: European Union leaders see first signs of a “sustainable economic recovery” from the worst slump since World War II; Oil price above $72
- Markets News Friday: Fed forecast to raise rates in 2010; German economists say no ECB move until 2011; O'Leary say BA/Iberia like "drunks"
- Markets News Friday: Fed hikes rate for lending to banks; Shares dip in Europe and Asia; Dollar up and oil price down
- Markets News Friday: German business confidence surges to 3-year high in July -- sharpest rise since unity in 1990; UK GDP jumps in Q2
- Markets News Friday: GfK NOP’s index of UK consumer confidence close to a 30-year low in November
- Markets News Friday: Gold and other commodities plunge on US dollar rise; European markets up
- Markets News Friday: Goldman Sachs director in insider trading probe to resign
- Markets News Friday: Government and Aer Lingus hold separate witching hour talks with unions; Shares slide in Europe
- Markets News Friday: Greece activates Eurozone-IMF €45bn bail-out; Goldman director said to have tipped off hedge fund billionaire on $5bn Buffett investment
- Markets News Friday: Irish bank shares rise in Dublin
- Markets News Friday: Irish banks in double digit rises; Greece bans Goldman Sachs and hedge funds from bond sale
- Markets News Friday: Irish commercial property values down 53% from Q4 2007 peak; AIB approves 42,000 loans/ overdrafts totaling €1.85bn for Irish SMEs in 2009
- Markets News Friday: Irish new car sales in May overtake annual unit sales for the full year in 2009
- Markets News Friday: Irish Public Sector payroll fell by 8,200 to 360,900 in year to September 2009 - - average earnings rose 2.5%; Bank of Japan says it will not tolerate deflation
- Markets News Friday: Irish shares rise in Dublin; European shares flat
- Markets News Friday: ISEQ up 14% - Irish bank shares rocket after US bailout proposal: BoI is up 40%; Anglo Irish 35%; IL&P is up 32% and AIB 28%; Bank of Ireland says no talks with Banco Santander (Update)
- Markets News Friday: Markets in Europe and Asia slide after US financials' tumble on Thursday
- Markets News Friday: Media report in China says Google may announce pullout next week; Seán FitzPatrick kept in Garda custody overnight
- Markets News Friday: Obama to seek support from top US bankers on toxic assets plan; Siemens - - Europe's biggest industrial group - - maintains profit forecast
- Markets News Friday: Obama's assault on Wall Street hits shares
- Markets News Friday: OECD composite leading indicators continue to signal a recovery
- Markets News Friday: OECD composite leading indicators for October continue to point to a recovery; EU leaders ask IMF to examine feasibility of Tobin Tax on financial transactions
- Markets News Friday: OECD Leading Indicators point to broad economic recovery
- Markets News Friday: Oil price below $60 in New York; CRH leads Dublin market lower
- Markets News Friday: Oil price falls to $125 a barrel in New York
- Markets News Friday: Oil price hits new record above $124; Insurance giant AIG's $7.81 billion first-quarter loss and oil price surge spook investors across the globe
- Markets News Friday: Oil rises close to $142 a barrel in New York; Dow may have worst June since 1930; General Motors closes at 34-year low
- Markets News Friday: Optimistic "Dr. Doom" cheers investors in New York; Shares rise in Europe
- Markets News Friday: Panic and fear grip investors; European and Asian markets tumble following Wall Street crash; Oil price falls to $79 in London
- Markets News Friday: Real-estate woes hit US banks; 1 in 11 American mortgages in trouble; Oil price surges to $128 in New York; Bank shares fall in Dublin
- Markets News Friday: Shares continue to slide; New York Stock Exchange investigates glitch; Smurfit Kappa reports Q1 loss; Spain out of recession
- Markets News Friday: Shares down in Europe and Asia; Oil price close to $65 a barrel in London
- Markets News Friday: Shares fall in Europe and Asia after US June payroll data depressed sentiment; US markets closed Friday for Independence Day weekend
- Markets News Friday: Shares fall in Europe and Asia; UK borrowing hits record
- Markets News Friday: Shares fall in Europe and Dublin; Davy revises 2010 Irish growth forecast
- Markets News Friday: Shares fall in Europe on poor GDP data and Greece worries
- Markets News Friday: Shares rise in Dublin; BA reports loss; Oil price above $61 in New York; UK GDP fell 1.9% in Q1 2009
- Markets News Friday: Shares rise in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Friday: Shares rise in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Friday: Shares rise in Europe; Euribor inter-bank rates fall to new record lows
- Markets News Friday: Shares rise in Europe; Gates Foundation announces $10bn vaccines fund in Davos; Samsung overtakes HP in global sales
- Markets News Friday: Shares rise in Europe; Oil price rises above $69 in New York
- Markets News Friday: Shares rise strongly in Europe
- Markets News Friday: Shares slide in Europe and Asia: Nikkei 225 close to 1982 low; EUR/USD rate falls below $1.27
- Markets News Friday: Shares slide in Europe and Asia; Credit Suisse warns increased capital/ regulation may cut European bank returns to pre-1990s levels
- Markets News Friday: Spanish banking giant Santander bids for 300 Royal Bank of Scotland branches
- Markets News Friday: Spanish unemployment rate rises above 20%; US federal prosecutors open criminal investigation of Goldman Sachs
- Markets News Friday: Stocks fall in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Friday: Stocks fall in Europe and Asia-Pacific; Oil price at $132 in New York; China consumes as much oil per person as America did in 1905
- Markets News Friday: Stocks fall in Europe and Asia; Oil price below $37 in New York - down 75% from July high of $145
- Markets News Friday: Stocks rise in Europe
- Markets News Friday: Stocks rise in Europe after a better than expected earnings report from JP Morgan Chase on Thursday
- Markets News Friday: Stocks rise in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Friday: Stocks rise in Europe and Asia; Oil price falls below $50 in New York
- Markets News Friday: Stocks rise in Europe; Oil price above $124 in New York
- Markets News Friday: Stocks rose in US following Dollar rise; European and Asia-Pacific stocks up; Shares of Swedish telco manufacturer Ericsson surge 23%
- Markets News Friday: Stocks slide again in Europe and US; Oil price below $76 in London; EUR/USD rate below $1.35 - Update on US Market
- Markets News Friday: Stocks slide in Europe and Asia; EUR/USD rate falls below $1.43
- Markets News Friday: Stocks up in Europe and Asia; Toyota reports first full-year loss in 59 years
- Markets News Friday: Stocks, commodities and euro plunge; OECD composite leading indicators give stronger signals of economic expansion
- Markets News Friday: Total of 792 Irish companies failed in H1 2010; European shares rebound from 5-week low
- Markets News Friday: Toyota and British Airways report losses; Qualceram Shires tumbles 21% in Dublin; Aer Lingus traffic falls
- Markets News Friday: UK GDP fell at biggest annual rate in Q2 2009 since 1955; Permanent TSB to hike mortgage rates
- Markets News Friday: UK GDP in Q4 2009 revised up to 0.3%; Lloyds Banking Group reports £6.3bn loss in 2009 - - £2.9bn in Irish write-offs; NAMA decision from European Commission expected
- Markets News Friday: UK house prices in surprise rise in April; German retail sales up by unexpected 0.5% in April; Oil price above $65 in New York
- Markets News Friday: Ulster Bank reports £8m loss in H1 2009; Elan takes Tysabri partner to court; 10,000 Irish housing units forecast to be built in 2010
- Markets News Friday: Ulster Bank reports €97m loss in Q3 2009; Shares rise in Europe and Asia; BA reports loss
- Markets News Friday: US banking industry may have to pay for financial reform bill estimated at $19bn
- Markets News Friday: US declines to name China a currency manipulator; Significant advance made towards HIV/AIDS vaccine
- Markets News Friday: US dollar rises; OECD leading indicators signal strong signs of recovery; IEA revises oil forecast up
- Markets News Friday: US retail sales plunge to lowest since at least 1969; Merrill Lynch says oil may fall to as low as $25 a barrel
- Markets News Friday: US stocks have lost $11 trillion since the Dow peaked in Oct 2007 - - US GDP is $14 trillion
- Markets news Friday; European shares rise
- Markets News Friday; Japan warns of deflation - central bank more upbeat; One in 10 US homeowners with mortgages missing payments in Q3 2009
- Markets News Monday: China calls pressure on currency appreciation "protectionism"; Shares fall in Europe and Asia; Aryzta reports flat half-year profits
- Markets News Monday: "Landmark investment" of 300 outsourcing jobs for Cork at Abtran; China reports first trade deficit in 6 years; Euro gains after Greek support plan
- Markets News Monday: 355,000 Americans defaulted on their mortgages in H1 2010 even though they could pay
- Markets News Monday: Aer Lingus reports rise in traffic in November; Shares dip in Europe
- Markets News Monday: Aer Lingus says it must continue to reduce any costs within its control - - share price jumps in Dublin
- Markets News Monday: Aer Lingus traffic up in July; WorldSpreads sells Irish unit; Japanese machinery orders rise
- Markets news Monday: Bank of Ireland makes biggest gain on recapitalisation plan
- Markets News Monday: Barclays Bank surprises investors with good news
- Markets News Monday: Bernanke says recovery from recession will begin next year; Obama administration moving with increasing speed on financial regulation overhaul
- Markets News Monday: China says it will move gradually in making changes to the nation’s yuan/renminbi exchange rate
- Markets News Monday: China’s monthly exports jumped 43.9% in June from a year earlier; US second quarter earnings season begins today
- Markets News Monday: China’s Wen says stimulus plan producing “better-than-expected” results
- Markets News Monday: Chinese renminbi futures surge; Oil rig worker tell BBC that BP was alerted to Gulf leak before explosion
- Markets News Monday: CIT collapse averted; Sovereign Wealth Funds - Abu Dhabi has $700 billion in assets; Norway has $350 billion
- Markets News Monday: Citi news boosts stocks; Davy says Ireland stalls while other countries act
- Markets News Monday: Data to show Ireland exited recession in Q1; Greece to return to bond markets; US investigating Afghan air shipments of $3bn in cash
- Markets News Monday: Dubai fears ease; Food group Aryzta reports 16% fall in first quarter revenues
- Markets News Monday: Eircom set to get fifth owner since 1999; Shares down in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Monday: EU leaders spurn aid pleas from Eastern Europe and carmakers; Irish accountancy bodies call for early Budget
- Markets News Monday: Euro falls close to $1.49 US dollars; Oil price at $116 in New York - $115 in London; US economic slump will extend into 2009
- Markets News Monday: European and Asia-Pacific stocks rise; Oil price remains close to $144 in London
- Markets News Monday: European business and consumer confidence improved in June for the third month in a row from low levels
- Markets News Monday: European markets open down - Dublin rises on Elan surge of 12%; Oil price rises to $115 in New York on Gulf of Mexico storm fears.
- Markets News Monday: European shares rise; Dublin market down slightly
- Markets News Monday: European shares slide following more bank woes; Irish financials tumble again
- Markets News Monday: European stocks down; Oil price close to $115 in New York; Dublin market up
- Markets News Monday: European stocks fall on oil price concerns; IAWS rises over 5% in Dublin on merger news
- Markets News Monday: European stocks fall; Aer Lingus surges in Dublin after Ryanair bid
- Markets News Monday: European stocks rise after UK bank rescue plan
- Markets News Monday: European stocks rise; Irish market rebounds almost 4%
- Markets news Monday: European/German industrial giant Siemens expects to win orders of €15 billion from stimulus programs; Green technologies to account for 40%
- Markets News Monday: Eurozone retail sales fell less than expected in August; UK service sector in strongest rise in 2 years in September
- Markets News Monday: Financial Regulator denies "sweetheart deal" on purchase of Anglo shares: Goodbody says Irish GDP will fall 6% in 2009
- Markets News Monday: G7 to canvass support for global banking levy; Aer Lingus traffic rose in January; German manufacturing turnover fell in December
- Markets News Monday: Global recovery seems stronger, but still fragile says IMF; Global upturn to support recovery of Irish economy says Bank of Ireland
- Markets News Monday: Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley scrap 1930's era model; Oil price above $105 in New York; EUR/USD rate above $1.45
- Markets News Monday: Goldman Sachs helped the Greek government to hide billions worth of euro borrowings
- Markets News Monday: Irish bank shares dip in Dublin; UK manufacturing expanded in October
- Markets News Monday: Irish bank shares plunge in Dublin; Stocks slide in China and Europe
- Markets News Monday: Irish bank shares under attack again; Anglo and IL&P plunge 20% or more; Euro falls below $1.36; Oil price dips under $87 in London - below $90 in New York
- Markets News Monday: Irish economy may have grown in Q1 2010; Goldman fraud charges send shares sliding; Elan may sell drugs unit
- Markets News Monday: Irish economy to emerge from recession in next 3/4 months; Oil rises to $81 in New York; Four Irish firms going bust every day
- Markets News Monday: Irish Government considering €31 billion support plan for AIB and Bank of Ireland
- Markets News Monday: Irish Government gives additional €2bn to the hemorrhaging Anglo Irish Bank; UK/US market closed for public holidays; Eircom raises prices
- Markets News Monday: Irish M&A activity back to levels previously seen in early to mid 90’s; Shares rise in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Monday: Moody's downgrades Ireland's sovereign-debt rating
- Markets News Monday: Morgan Stanley economist say sharp appreciation of China's currency would be disastrous for the United States
- Markets News Monday: Netherlands gives ING - the biggest Dutch banking and insurance group - €10bn; South Korea also launches bank rescue plan
- Markets News Monday: Obama welcomes China as "strong, prosperous and successful"; Chinese official says pressure for appreciation of the yuan “not fair”
- Markets News Monday: Oil price above $142 in New York and London; Irish shares down sharply in Dublin
- Markets News Monday: Oil price remains above $134 despite Saudi promise on output; Euro/$ rate below $1.54; AIG ousts CEO Sullivan
- Markets News Monday: Oil price rises to new record close to $120; Europe's largest appliance maker Electrolux reports loss; FBD rejects Eureko approach
- Markets News Monday: Oil price rises towards $71 in London; Ryanair plunges in Dublin
- Markets News Monday: Pfizer to make $68bn bid for Wyeth; Barclays up 40% in London; Bank of Ireland jumps 38% and INM rises 34% in Dublin
- Markets News Monday: Public stake in Bank of Ireland rises to 16%; Oil price above $80 in New York; Euro expected to fall further against dollar
- Markets News Monday: Return to Irish employment growth will depend on domestic demand not exports; BP plc said on Monday that "no final decision" on Hayward
- Markets News Monday: Ryanair and Aer Lingus rise in Dublin; UK Manufacturing PMI rose to 15-year high at the start of 2010
- Markets News Monday: Ryanair plunges 16% in Dublin
- Markets News Monday: Shares dip in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Monday: Shares down sharply in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Monday: Shares fall in Europe
- Markets News Monday: Shares fall in Europe and Asia: Coughlan announces 38 new "high calibre" jobs to be created in Dublin and Meath over next 5 years
- Markets News Monday: Shares fall in Europe and Asia; China has second-biggest IPO in 2009
- Markets News Monday: Shares in Asia and Europe rally after China's huge economic stimulus; C&C up 21% in Dublin
- Markets News Monday: Shares in Asia climb to a six-week high; French GDP forecast to rise 0.4% in Q1 2010
- Markets News Monday: Shares rally in Europe and Asia in response to Obama stimulus plan
- Markets News Monday: Shares rise as investors expect rate cuts this week by several central banks
- Markets News Monday: Shares rise in Europe - - fall in Asia; AIB up in Dublin after Green Party support for Irish "bad bank" NAMA
- Markets News Monday: Shares rise in Europe and Asia; Kraft makes £10.2 billion offer to Cadbury
- Markets News Monday: Shares rise in Europe and Asia; Oil price above $74 in London and New York
- Markets News Monday: Shares rise in Europe; Kingspan gains in Dublin; Irish insolvencies jump in February; Oil price above $80 in New York
- Markets News Monday: Shares rise in Europe; Markets in UK and US closed for public holidays; Eurozone austerity measures to have neutral impact overall
- Markets News Monday: Shares rise in Europe; Oil price heads towards $79 in New York trading; First Derivatives posts strong interims
- Markets News Monday: Shares, bonds and euro rally after dramatic announcements from Brussels and Frankfurt
- Markets News Monday: Spain to hike taxes; Food group Aryzta reports performance ahead of forecasts; Shares fall in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Monday: Spanish bank BBVA to increase Chinese stake; Gold rises to new high
- Markets News Monday: Stocks down in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Monday: Stocks down in Europe and Asia; Dublin market rises
- Markets News Monday: Stocks fall in Europe and Asia; Oil price dips; IMF MD Strauss-Kahn says banks still need to clean up their balance sheets
- Markets News Monday: Stocks fall in Europe; Oil price drops to $39 in New York
- Markets News Monday: Stocks fall in Europe; Trading in India halted as market surges to record daily rise
- Markets News Monday: Stocks in sharp slides in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Monday: Stocks rise Europe; Aer Lingus, CRH and banks gain in Dublin
- Markets News Monday: Stocks rise in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Monday: Stocks rise in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Monday: Stocks rise in Europe; Oil price above $125 in New York
- Markets News Monday: Stocks up in Europe on US toxic asset plan hopes
- Markets News Monday: The euro falls to a four-year low against US dollar
- Markets News Monday: Tuesday is D-Day for Irish banks; State to seize control of AIB, EBS and Irish Nationwide; Stake in Bank of Ireland to be increased
- Markets News Monday: Turmoil on Wall Street sends shares tumbling; Oil price falls to $99 in New York
- Markets News Monday: UK bank HBOS says rights issue flops; Swiss drugs giant Roche makes bid for rest of US firm Genentech
- Markets News Monday: US business economists forecast that economy will recover from recession by the end of the third quarter
- Markets News Monday: US dollar rate versus Euro just below $1.40; US financial markets are closed Monday for Memorial Day
- Markets News Monday: US markets in fastest dip since 1950; United States discovers $1trn in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan
- Markets News Monday: US/UBS request court delay in tax hearing; Pan-European Dow Jones Stoxx 600 down after 4 weeks of losses
- Markets News Monday: Yield on 10-year Greek bonds jumps to treble benchmark German bund rate
- Markets News Monday: IATA almost doubles global airlines' losses in 2009 to $9 billion; Stocks slide in Europe
- Markets News Monday; New Orleans has become a ``ghost town'' as markets await outcome of Hurricane Gustav's impact on oil drilling facilities
- Markets News Monday; Oil trading at $133 a barrel in New York; Markets mixed in Europe
- Markets News Monday; Stocks fall in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Monday; Stocks rally in Europe and Asia in response to bank rescue plans; Oil price falls below $77 in London
- Markets News Thursday: Bank of America seeking more public funds
- Markets News Thursday: European Central Bank may announce plans to cut back emergency lending; Siemens reports loss; Gold hits new record price
- Markets News Thursday: Geithner says US and Europe are in “broad agreement” on the need for tighter regulation
- Markets News Thursday: German economy added 32,000 workers in June and employment rose for the fifth consecutive month
- Markets News Thursday: Shares rise in Europe and Asia; Latvian central bank warns about loan modifications; Gold hits new record price
- Markets News Thursday: Shares rise in Europe and fall in Asia; Obama tells CEOs he doesn’t want to "to supplant private enterprise but to catalyze it”
- Markets News Thursday: 57,000 Irish second-hand homes currently on market - - 19 months supply at current sales rates
- Markets News Thursday: Aer Lingus traffic dipped in March; Shares fall in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Thursday: AIB and Bank of Ireland rise in Dublin; Oil price moves towards $75 in London
- Markets News Thursday: Australia adds 52,700 jobs in January - - the most in 3 years; Greencore sells malting business for €116.25m
- Markets News Thursday: Billionaire ranks shrink; Stocks fall in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Thursday: Brent crude oil surges above $145 a barrel in London; European markets down again; Irish shares in sharp fall
- Markets News Thursday: China's blistering economic growth eased to 10.3% in the second quarter
- Markets News Thursday: China’s benchmark stock index surges 9.21% after trading tax cut; European markets down in early trading
- Markets News Thursday: Credit Suisse returns to profit; European stocks mixed; Morici on US housing sales, durable goods orders and signs of economic recovery
- Markets News Thursday: Crude oil sets new record above $123 in New York - up 29% in 2008; EUR/USD rate remains below $1.54; European markets down
- Markets News Thursday: Demand for ECB liquidity higher than expected; Investors concerned about China's success in cooling its economy
- Markets News Thursday: Deutsche Bank reports net income of €5.0 billion in 2009; Embattled Toyota swung into black in last quarter
- Markets News Thursday: Deutsche Bank surprises with third quarter profit; EUR/USD rate rises to $1.32
- Markets News Thursday: eBay says foreign currency changes will cut overseas sales by $250m this year
- Markets News Thursday: ECB expected to keep rates on hold; BP says oil spill costs so far are $1.43bn
- Markets News Thursday: ECB meets in Lisbon; Moody's warns of Greek contagion for banks in Ireland, UK, Italy, Portugal and Spain
- Markets News Thursday: ECB takes first step toward removing emergency liquidity measures; Shares rise in Europe and US; AIB announces €750m 5 year bond
- Markets News Thursday: Elan tumbles 9% after 32% plummet on Wednesday; European shares down; Oil price rises above $126 in New York: Deutsche Bank's Q2 profit falls 64%
- Markets News Thursday: Euro falls to 10-month low against the US dollar on Greece bailout worries
- Markets News Thursday: Euro rises after Fed's aggressive bond purchase move; US Congress to vote on 90% bonus tax plan
- Markets News Thursday: Euro rises to £0.95 and $1.46
- Markets News Thursday: Euro trading below $1.40; Oil price below $100 in London
- Markets News Thursday: Europe gets no bounce from New York rally: Abbey reports loss of €54.4 million
- Markets News Thursday: European and Asian stocks rise
- Markets News Thursday: European Central Bank expected to keep benchmark rate on hold at 1%; Shares rise in Europe
- Markets News Thursday: European companies to reduce dividends over the next 18 months at fastest rate since at least 1999
- Markets News Thursday: European markets fall; Oil price over $116 in New York; Eircom’s key shareholder Babcock & Brown plunges 36% in Sydney
- Markets News Thursday: European shares fall following plunge in New York; Oil price close to $137 in London
- Markets News Thursday: European shares fall: Oil price rises above $136 in New York
- Markets News Thursday: European shares fall; Goldman Sachs on track to pay average of $700,000 per employee in 2009 - - nearly double 2008 level
- Markets News Thursday: European shares in slight rise; Asian shares fall to four-year low
- Markets News Thursday: European shares rise as markets await news on US financial sector rescue
- Markets News Thursday: European shares rise; EUR/USD rate below $1.40
- Markets News Thursday: European shares rise; Oil price below $61; G-8 summit fails to agree on shot-term carbon emission targets
- Markets News Thursday: European shares rise; Sweden cuts benchmark rate 1.75% to 2%
- Markets News Thursday: European stocks fall on renewal of credit crisis worries; Oil price at $119 in New York - close to $117 in London
- Markets News Thursday: European stocks fall; CRH dips almost 7% in Dublin
- Markets News Thursday: European stocks fall; Euro/Dollar rate below $1.57; Oil price below $125 in New York; Credit Suisse reports 62% fall in Q2 earnings
- Markets News Thursday: European stocks fall; Oil prices rise towards $125 in New York
- Markets News Thursday: European stocks in sharp slide; Citi shares fall to 1995 low and the Dow dips below 8,000 in New York
- Markets News Thursday: European stocks mixed; Dublin market down; Oil price in New York close to $135 a barrel
- Markets News Thursday: European stocks rise in early trading; Oil falls to $122 in New York; India and Malaysia hike petrol costs
- Markets News Thursday: European stocks rise; Oil price moves towards $117 in New York
- Markets News Thursday: Former Anglo Irish Bank chief Seán FitzPatrick under arrest; China carrying out yuan stress tests on 12 industries
- Markets News Thursday: German import prices rose 2.4% in May - the highest monthly advance in 18 years
- Markets News Thursday: German unemployment dipped in October; Irish bank shares rise in Dublin
- Markets News Thursday: GM stalls late night Berlin talks on Opel by demanding €300m in cash; Shares fall in Europe after inflation fears spooked US investors
- Markets News Thursday: Goldman Sachs board member under investigation in insider trading case; HP focus of bribery probe in Germany and Russia
- Markets News Thursday: Guinness sales rise in Ireland; AIB and Bank of Ireland fall in Dublin
- Markets News Thursday: Hewlett-Packard challenges Cisco with 3Com acquisition; Australia adds 24,500 jobs in October
- Markets News Thursday: High Court announcement on Zoe examinership bid due; Shares rise in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Thursday: Honohan says 'bad bank' NAMA will spend €40-50 billion on toxic loans; Top earning US hedge fund manager made $4 billion in 2009
- Markets News Thursday: IEA cuts world oil demand forecast again; Crude falls below $52 in London; Intel cuts forecast
- Markets News Thursday: Independent News & Media sells stake in online bingo firm Cashcade; European stocks flat
- Markets News Thursday: Investors spooked by China lending curbs; Ryanair carried record 65m passengers in 2009 - - says third Aer Lingus bid unlikely
- Markets News Thursday: Irish bank shares down in Dublin; Bank of England's King seeking tougher UK regulation than Brown
- Markets News Thursday: Irish shares rose 17.5% in third quarter; UK manufacturing recovery eased in September
- Markets News Thursday: Japan's export growth slowed in May; Baltic Dry Index dips for 19th straight session; Apple may sell 1m phones today
- Markets News Thursday: Japan's exports tumbled 36% in August from a year earlier; Shares fall in Europe
- Markets News Thursday: Lloyds TSB acquires HBOS; European and Asian shares follow Wall Street down again
- Markets News Thursday: McInerney plunges 26% in Dublin; Oil price rises above $119 in New York
- Markets News Thursday: Obama to push for financial reform in New York City today
- Markets News Thursday: Origin Enterprises reports dip in profit; BP to acquire oil field in offshore Brazil; Oil price over $82 in New York
- Markets News Thursday: Risk-averse Eurozone banks put record €320.4bn on deposit with the ECB; UK FSA fines JP Morgan Chase & Co. £33.32m
- Markets News Thursday: Royal Bank of Scotland reports 2008 loss of £24.1 billion - - a UK record; Stock rise in Europe
- Markets News Thursday: Ryanair proposes Aer Lingus AGM resolutions for cutting directors' pay; German PMI data signals recession has eased substantially
- Markets News Thursday: Shanghai overtook Tokyo as Asia’s biggest stock market by trading value in 2009
- Markets News Thursday: Shares fall in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Thursday: Shares in sharp falls on recession fears; Oil price below $72 in New York - $68 in London; EUR/USD rate falls to $.34
- Markets News Thursday: Shares rally in Europe and Asia on US bank optimism; Barclays Bank Q 1 2009 profit up 15%
- Markets News Thursday: Shares rally in Europe and Asia on US recovery hopes
- Markets News Thursday: Shares rise in Dublin
- Markets News Thursday: Shares rise in Europe and Asia; Davos 2010 report
- Markets News Thursday: Shares rise in Europe and fall in Asia; UK retail sales rise; UK Chancellor promises “lower and simpler corporate tax rates”
- Markets News Thursday: Shares rise in Europe; Bank of Japan calls for government plan to cut public debt; Pernod Ricard earnings dip
- Markets News Thursday: Shares rise in Europe; Oil price close to $72 in New York; Obama administration announces measures on executive pay
- Markets News Thursday: Shares slide in Europe and Asia on Thanksgiving Day; IBEC confirms no Irish pay rises in 2010
- Markets News Thursday: Shares up in Europe - - flat in Dublin; IMF paper says Eurozone sovereign risk spreads suggest greater financial market discipline
- Markets News Thursday: Stock fall in Europe; Irish bank shares tumble in Dublin
- Markets News Thursday: Stocks down in Europe after rise in Asia; CEO of Swedish telco Ericsson appointed chairman of BP
- Markets News Thursday: Stocks fall in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Thursday: Stocks fall in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Thursday: Stocks fall sharply on economic downturn worries
- Markets News Thursday: Stocks flat in Europe; Dublin rises with C&C advancing
- Markets News Thursday: Stocks flat in Europe; Dublin rises with C&C advancing
- Markets News Thursday: Stocks rise in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Thursday: Stocks rise in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Thursday: Stocks rise in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Thursday: Stocks rise in Europe and Asia; Oil price close to $34 in New York
- Markets News Thursday: Surging oil prices dampens sentiment in Europe and Asia-Pacific; ECB rate cut hopes fade
- Markets News Thursday: Surprise growth in Germany and France boosts European markets
- Markets News Thursday: Swiss National Bank cuts benchmark interest rate to 0.5%
- Markets News Thursday: Trichet expected to be questioned on rising inter-bank rates; Stress tests to be carried out on 91 Eurozone banks representing 65% of sector
- Markets News Thursday: UK house prices in April 10% below October 2007 peak; German unemployment fell 68,000 in month
- Markets News Thursday: UK house prices rise again in July; Shares rise in Europe; Sony reports another loss; Siemens says orders down 28%
- Markets News Thursday: UK house prices unexpectedly rose for the first time since October 2007 in March
- Markets News Thursday: UK industrial production jumps in September; Shares fall in Europe
- Markets News Thursday: UK insurer Aviva to establish European HQ in Dublin; Shares fall in Europe and Asia; Oil trading over $80 in New York
- Markets News Thursday: UK retail sales increased in May boosted by wide-screen televisions to watch the World Cup
- Markets News Thursday: UK retail sales plunge in February; IBM to cut 5,000 US jobs and move most to India
- Markets News Thursday: UK retail sales unexpectedly fell in November; US dollar at 3-month high against euro; Bank of America appoints Irish-American Brian Moynihan as CEO
- Markets News Thursday: United States rejects subsisding climate change measures in China; Shares rise in Europe.- - fall in Asia
- Markets News Thursday: US dollar rises on expectation of Fed rate cutting pause
- Markets News Thursday: US Fed says consumer spending slowed down in recent weeks
- Markets News Thursday: US financial stocks in huge rally; Bank of America rockets 22%; Oil price drops to $134 in New York; ISEQ jumps 6%; Irish bank shares surge 11%
- Markets News Thursday: US to announce 2009 budget deficit forecast at 11.2% of GDP - - a post 1945 high; China's stock market benchmark recovers
- Markets News Thursday: US to recapitalise American banks in return for public stakes; European markets rise; Irish bank shares rebound
- Markets News Thursday: Wall Street Journal report says World's Top Oil Producers cannot meet export demand; Domestic demand spikes in Middle East countries
- Markets News Thursday: European Central Bank expected to keep benchmark interest rate at 1%; To outline steps on gradual withdrawal from emergency lending to Eurozone banks
- Markets News Tuesday: EU countries have access to fund backstop to support troubled banks after stress tests
- Markets News Tuesday: Shares rise in Europe and Asia; Investors in Japan expect central bank to extend lending support
- Markets News Tuesday: UK inflation accelerated in January because of VAT increase; Shares rise in Europe following Barclays Bank earnings report
- Markets News Tuesday: 35% of Irish SME loans were in arrears in December 2009; UK consumer prices surge on weak pound
- Markets News Tuesday: Aer Lingus cuts fleet; UBS reports loss; Dr. Doom warns of risk of double-dip recession in H2 2010
- Markets News Tuesday: Aer Lingus reports improved results in Q1 2010; German retail sales dip in March; NAMA takes 55% 'haircut' on Anglo loans; Shares slide
- Markets News Tuesday: Aer Lingus shares rise in Dublin; AIB dips as investors await recapitalisation news
- Markets News Tuesday: All Western European markets down
- Markets News Tuesday: Another day of uncertainty as AIG's woes keep investors on edge; Oil price falls below $92 in New York
- Markets News Tuesday: Bernanke says “extraordinarily urgent” US and Asia agree on trade imbalances; EUR/USD rate heading for $1.50; Oil price in New York close to $80
- Markets News Tuesday: BP reports record loss after taking oil spill charge of $32.2bn; American appointed CEO
- Markets News Tuesday: BP says Macondo oil well still sealed; Nokia in search of new CEO to challenge Apple on smartphones
- Markets News Tuesday: China buys Spanish bonds; Moody's downgrades Portugal's debt; Eurogroup ministers say stress test failed banks will be supported
- Markets News Tuesday: Chinese overseas investment jumps; BP reports profit drop; Irish National Pension Reserve Fund worst performer in OECD
- Markets News Tuesday: CRH boosts Dublin market
- Markets News Tuesday: CRH reports pace of downturn easing but Q4 outlook revised downward; Share price slides in Dublin
- Markets News Tuesday: Davy says Irish tax revenue has finally stabilised; Ryanair opens base at Leeds-Bradford
- Markets News Tuesday: Deutsche Bank reports 48% jump in Q1 2010 profit; Share prices down in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Tuesday: Deutsche Bank reports 68% rise in Q2 profit - - BP reports 53% profit fall; Oil price above $71 in London
- Markets News Tuesday: Deutsche Bank reports first quarterly loss in 5 years; Eureko withdraws bid for Irish insurance group FBD
- Markets News Tuesday: Dublin Port trade rises; Irish insolvencies up 34% in Q1 2010; Australia hikes benchmark rate to 4.25%
- Markets News Tuesday: Elan rises 5% in Dublin after 11% advance in New York Monday; Oil price falls to $119 in London; Société Générale's Q2 profit falls 63%
- Markets News Tuesday: European and Asia-Pacific stocks rise; Oil price above $134 in New York
- Markets News Tuesday: European and Asian shares rise; EUR/USD rate below $1.25; Oil price below $62 in London
- Markets News Tuesday: European banks are increasing holdings of government debt as lending continues to remain tight
- Markets News Tuesday: European Court of Justice rules Google can permit advertisers to use trademarks of major brands as search keywords
- Markets News Tuesday: European finance ministers say debt crisis won’t result in continent-wide austerity campaign; UK inflation at 17 month high in April
- Markets News Tuesday: European markets down; Bank shares in Dublin slide; Ryanair falls almost 3%
- Markets News Tuesday: European markets fall; Irish bank shares slide in Dublin; Oil price declines to$107 in New York
- Markets News Tuesday: European markets open down; Oil price at $115 in New York; EUR/USD rate below $1.47
- Markets News Tuesday: European markets rise; Dublin falls as bank shares decline again
- Markets News Tuesday: European shares rise; CRH boosts Dublin market; Oil price below $64 in New York
- Markets News Tuesday: European shares rise; CRH boosts Dublin market; Oil price below $64 in New York
- Markets News Tuesday: European shares rise; Shanghai closes up after Monday's plunge; GM offloads Saab
- Markets News Tuesday: European stock rise; Vodafone reports strung results as CEO Arun Sarin announces his resignation; Oil trading above $133 in New York
- Markets News Tuesday: European stocks down; Irish Life & Permanent plunges for a second day in Dublin
- Markets News Tuesday: European stocks fall; Dublin down on Irish recession forecast; Oil price close to $137 in New York
- Markets News Tuesday: European stocks fall; Ericsson reports second-quarter profit fell 70%
- Markets News Tuesday: Financial stocks plunge in Dublin
- Markets News Tuesday: German economic sentiment indicator dips in January; Kraft acquires Cadbury; Shares fall in Europe
- Markets News Tuesday: German retail sales ex-cars rose in July; Shares up in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Tuesday: Global stock markets to close best quarter since 1987; Boundary Capital seeks to rearrange debt of €38.6m with Anglo Irish Bank
- Markets News Tuesday: Gold price above $1,000 compared with 1980 inflation-adjusted peak of $2,300; Chinese car sales surged 90% in August
- Markets News Tuesday: Greece to announce new austerity measures Wednesday; Pound falls for sixth day; Paddy Power issues strong 2009 results; Australia hikes benchmark interest rate to 4%
- Markets News Tuesday: IATA forecasts global air transport industry losses of $4.7 billion in 2009
- Markets News Tuesday: IMF to revise global forecast up; The worst deal of the century; Irish shares fall
- Markets News Tuesday: Insurance giant AIG may report $60 billion quarterly loss and seek top-up in $150 billion bail-out; Taiwan’s annual exports tumble 42%
- Markets News Tuesday: Irish bank shares fall in Dublin; Fed to move towards zero interest rate today
- Markets News Tuesday: Irish bank shares plunge in Dublin; O'Brien INM EGM resolutions rejected
- Markets News Tuesday: Irish financials in double-digit dips in Dublin; Irish banking liabilities - True figure is just over 300% of GDP
- Markets News Tuesday: Irish Government says 300 "smart economy" jobs to be created; Thousands more from clean energy technologies over coming years
- Markets News Tuesday: Irish Life & Permanent issues restructuring document ahead of EGM; Lloyds prices rights issue; Shares fall following China slide
- Markets News Tuesday: Irish market down; Bank of Ireland partially rebounds but still below €1
- Markets News Tuesday: Irish shares rally in Dublin led by CRH; Oil price above $68 in New York; USD/EUR rate above $1.41
- Markets News Tuesday: Irish shares rise in Dublin; Government extends bank deposit insurance coverage
- Markets news Tuesday: Irish software company Norkom posts 17% rise in annual revenue; Apple announces new iPhone; Oil price above $69
- Markets News Tuesday: Korean Peninsula tensions, Spanish banks spook investors; German bund yield dips to 2.6%; Greencore reports interim profits of €26.49m
- Markets News Tuesday: Lenihan denies approving AIB executive salaries; Obama presses China on yuan appreciation
- Markets News Tuesday: Market enthusiasm fades after global rally; China enters bear market
- Markets News Tuesday: NTMA raises €1.5bn in bond sales; Bank of Japan to provide $33bn to boost business lending
- Markets News Tuesday: Obama considering special levy on large banks; Shares fall in Europe and Dublin
- Markets News Tuesday: Oil hits new record above $127; Bank of Japan holds benchmark rate at 0.5%; Marks & Spencer reports 25% rise in annual profit
- Markets News Tuesday: Oil price falls below $124 in New York; European stocks rise
- Markets News Tuesday: Oil price rockets to $129.58 in New York; Stocks plunge in Europe and US
- Markets News Tuesday: Providence Resources to double production; Irish shares rise
- Markets News Tuesday: Public spending boosted German GDP in Q2 2009
- Markets News Tuesday: Royal Bank of Scotland to raise £12 billion in rights issue; Takes £5.9 billion in pretax writedowns on credit market exposures; Oil price above $117 in New York
- Markets News Tuesday: S&P 500 moves into the black in 2009; UBS reports another loss; National Irish Bank and parent Dankse posts profits
- Markets News Tuesday: Shares down in Europe and Asia; Dow closes above 11,000 - - almost 11 years after first time
- Markets News Tuesday: Shares down sharply in Europe; Investors select US over BRICs in poll
- Markets News Tuesday: Shares fall in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Tuesday: Shares fall in Europe and Asia after US slide
- Markets News Tuesday: Shares fall in Europe and Asia in response to Wall Street tumble; Oil price falls below $48 in New York
- Markets News Tuesday: Shares fall in Europe; CRH boosts Dublin market; GM fell to 1946 level in New York Monday
- Markets News Tuesday: Shares fall in Europe; Oil price dips and US dollar rises
- Markets News Tuesday: Shares fall slightly in Europe and Dublin; German consumer prices dip in January; UK retail sales stall
- Markets News Tuesday: Shares rally in Europe and Asia; Irish bank shares rise
- Markets News Tuesday: Shares rise in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Tuesday: Shares rise in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Tuesday: Shares slide on China recovery worries and Eurozone manufacturing slip; AIG rejects price reduction for Asian unit
- Markets News Tuesday: Siemens rises on profit boost; Irish financials up again in Dublin
- Markets News Tuesday: Standard & Poor's Ratings Services is maintaining its negative outlook for the US banking industry
- Markets News Tuesday: Stocks down sharply in Europe and Asia on swine flu fears; Deutsche Bank - - Germany’s biggest - - returns to profit
- Markets News Tuesday: Stocks down slightly in Europe; Obama to present sweeping financial regulation reform plan to Congress today
- Markets News Tuesday: Stocks down slightly in Europe; Obama to present sweeping financial regulation reform plan to Congress Wednesday
- Markets News Tuesday: Stocks fall in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Tuesday: Stocks fall in Europe on fears prices have outpaced earnings
- Markets News Tuesday: Stocks fall in Europe on fears prices have outpaced earnings
- Markets News Tuesday: Stocks fall in Europe; Oil price at $33 in New York; Bank of Ireland rises in Dublin
- Markets News Tuesday: Stocks rally in Europe and Asia: Bank of Ireland surges 26% in Dublin; Oil rises above $60 in New York
- Markets News Tuesday: Stocks rebound in Europe; US dividend pay-outs in 2009 to fall the most since 1938
- Markets News Tuesday: Stocks rise in Europe
- Markets News Tuesday: Stocks rise in Europe
- Markets News Tuesday: Stocks rise in Europe; Oil falls below $50
- Markets News Tuesday: Stocks up in Europe and down in Dublin
- Markets News Tuesday: Swiss bank UBS reports profit; EUR/USD rate below 1.27; Oil price falls towards $59 in London
- Markets News Tuesday: Swiss bank UBS reports Q1 loss of €7bn - to cut 5,500 jobs; Oil price hits new record above $120; Euro/USD rate just above $1.55;
- Markets News Tuesday: Talks between Irish Government and trade unions on public spending cuts collapse; BP reports quarterly loss
- Markets News Tuesday: Tesco adds profit and jobs: Shares rise in Europe, Asia and Dublin
- Markets News Tuesday: UBS reports fourth straight quarterly loss after further writedowns, EUR/USD rate below $1.49; Oil price falls below $112 a barrel in London
- Markets News Tuesday: UK Manufacturing shrank 6.4% in 3 months through January - - the most since records began in 1968
- Markets News Tuesday: UK prepares for toughest budget package of tax increases and spending cuts in a generation
- Markets News Tuesday: UK recession eased in Q2 2009; European shares slightly down; Top three markets have dipped; Dublin is up
- Markets News Tuesday: US fears that mortgage giants will need bailout sends stocks down in Europe and Asia; Euro falls below $1.47; Oil drops to $112 in New York
- Markets News Tuesday: US Federal Reserve provides $800 billion to unclog credit and mortgage markets
- Markets News Tuesday: US financial stocks tumble; European markets down; Dublin surrenders Monday's gains
- Markets News Tuesday: US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says while a recovery was ongoing, setbacks are likely; UK inflation tumbles
- Markets News Tuesday: European businesses in China concerned about rising labour costs, competition with domestic rivals; Google makes new proposal to Chinese authorities
- Markets News Tuesday: Wall Street Journal says Obama shelves plans to raise $200 billion in new taxes on multinationals; UK inflation dips to 5-year low
- Markets News Tuesday; AIB suspends bond coupon payments at EU request; European shares rise after news of Dubai World's planned restructuring
- Markets News Tuesday; Germany's Commerzbank reports huge loss for 2009; Toyota posts strong January sales as it struggles with its safety woes
- Markets News Tuesday; IMF chief economist says central banks should keep interest rates very low; Australia's RBA keeps rates on hold at 3.75%; BP's refining margins dip
- Markets News Tuesday; Irish commercial property values down 56% from peak; Aer Lingus holds Investor Day in London; S&P downgrades Japan’s sovereign credit rating outlook
- Markets News Tuesday; Stocks rise in Europe and Asia after bounce in New York; EUR/USD rate falls below $1.33
- Markets News Wednesday Elan plunges 27% in Dublin after Alzheimer drug study report
- Markets News Wednesday: Euro rate is heading for $1.50; Oil price in New York at $75 a barrel; UK unemployment rate at 7.9% in September
- Markets News Wednesday: Eurozone banks had record €364.59bn in ECB's overnight deposit facility on Tuesday signalling wariness about lending
- Markets News Wednesday: First Derivatives in talks on acquiring tech firm Cognotec's assets; UK service activity in January hit by bad weather
- Markets News Wednesday: IMF says China's yuan/renminbi remains "substantially undervalued"
- Markets News Wednesday: UK unemployment rises to highest level since 1997; Bank of Ireland changes fiscal year time; Oil price above $77; Goldman's debt swaps are "destabilizing"
- Markets News Wednesday: Aer Lingus cuts 250 cabin crew jobs and pay 2 weeks redundancy per year of service; Tullow Oil reports a 93% drop in 2009 pre-tax profits
- Markets News Wednesday: Aer Lingus June traffic dips; Global chip sales up 47.6% in 12 months to May
- Markets News Wednesday: Aer Lingus talks with pilots end without agreement; Shares fall in Europe - - rise in Dublin
- Markets News Wednesday: Aer Lingus to proceed unilaterally with its €97m cost cutting plan; Eurozone industrial prices rose in October
- Markets News Wednesday: AIB rises 12% in Dublin; Bank of Japan sees no self-sustaining recovery in domestic private demand yet
- Markets News Wednesday: Annualised US car sales fell below China’s in January for the first time
- Markets News Wednesday: At least 57,000 Irish second-hand homes currently on market - - 19 months supply at current sales rates
- Markets News Wednesday: Bank of America may have to raise $34 billion in new capital; CRH falls in Dublin
- Markets News Wednesday: Bank of Ireland and AIB shares rise in Dublin
- Markets News Wednesday: Bank shares plunge in Dublin; Stocks slide in Europe
- Markets News Wednesday: Bank shares rebound in Dublin; Oil price above $80 in New York
- Markets News Wednesday: CIT rescuers make instant $100m and charge 13% interest rate; Lenihan says Irish minimum wage may have to be reviewed
- Markets News Wednesday: Citigroup to shrink by a third; European stocks fall
- Markets News Wednesday: Commercial Court cases continue to rise; Morgan Stanley reports big profit rise; GlaxoSmithKline dips into red
- Markets News Wednesday: Credit Suisse reports big 2008 loss; Irish financials dip in Dublin
- Markets News Wednesday: CRH leads Irish shares down
- Markets News Wednesday: Davy says Airline Industry could be facing its biggest crisis - Ryanair a long-term winner; Fed interest rate decision awaited; Oil price above $137
- Markets News Wednesday: Davy says Irish Commercial Property values to fall 20%; Oil price below $129 in New York
- Markets News Wednesday: Denis O'Brien calls for Independent News & Media EGM; Shares down in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Wednesday: Deutsche Bank reports jump in third-quarter profit; Shares down in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Wednesday: Dow has sixth-biggest percentage gain in 112 years on rate cut hope
- Markets News Wednesday: Dow has worst first quarter since 1939
- Markets News Wednesday: Dublin market dragged down by slump in bank shares
- Markets News Wednesday: Euro at six-month low against US dollar following Monday's record rise against sterling; Oil price falls below $119 in New York
- Markets News Wednesday: Euro falls to 7-month low against US Dollar - Rises to new record against Sterling; Oil price down 25% from July high
- Markets News Wednesday: European and Asian markets fall
- Markets News Wednesday: European markets down; Oil price close to $117 in New York
- Markets News Wednesday: European markets fall sharply
- Markets News Wednesday: European markets open strongly; Irish bank shares climb; Ryanair gains as oil price falls below $126 in New York
- Markets News Wednesday: European markets rise following Wall Street rally: Oil price at $119 in New York and $118 in London
- Markets News Wednesday: European markets rise; Dublin recovers after Tuesday's slump; Oil price over $108 in New York
- Markets News Wednesday: European markets rise; Irish bank shares up again
- Markets News Wednesday: European shares fall; Oil price below $134 in New York; Goldman Sachs downgrades several US bank stocks
- Markets News Wednesday: European stocks down in early trading; Bank shares in slight falls in Dublin; US stocks losses accelerated after Obama clinched Democratic nomination
- Markets News Wednesday: European stocks fall after 6-day rally
- Markets News Wednesday: European stocks fall; Dublin market rises
- Markets News Wednesday: European stocks fall; PIMCO bond fund founder says stocks may not be as cheap as they appear
- Markets News Wednesday: European stocks rebound from 12-year lows
- Markets News Wednesday: European stocks rise; Oil price just below $122 in New York; Euro/USD rate below $1.55
- Markets News Wednesday: European stocks rise; Oil price remains above $74 in London
- Markets News Wednesday: European stocks up after Dow tumble in New York; Irish financials rise
- Markets News Wednesday: Fears about the fragility of the global recovery has sent share prices down in Asia and Europe
- Markets News Wednesday: Fed decision awaited; German giants SAP and Siemens report fall in profits; Dublin market down
- Markets News Wednesday: Financials take hammering in New York; Euro rises toward $1.50; Oil price rises to $114 in New York; European markets down
- Markets News Wednesday: Food group Glanbia facing challenging conditions; United Drug posts profit fall
- Markets News Wednesday: German industrial giant Siemens reports strong results; Stocks rise in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Wednesday: German inflation at 0% is lowest in 22 years; Oil price above $71 in New York; TVC Holdings reports loss of €66.2m
- Markets News Wednesday: German unemployment fell in September; US CEOs see more sales in 6 months but no higher hiring or capital spending
- Markets News Wednesday: Global rate cut triggers rebound in stocks but 14 of 18 Western European markets down
- Markets News Wednesday: Grafton reports challenging conditions; Glanbia plans further restructuring in Irish commodity business; Ford's US sales jumped 33% in December
- Markets News Wednesday: Independent News and Media reports pre-tax loss of €31.4m for 2009; Germany moves towards Greece bailout with IMF support
- Markets News Wednesday: Investors provide US government with 0% financing; Stocks down in Europe
- Markets News Wednesday: Irish bank shares rise again in Dublin
- Markets News Wednesday: Irish Financial Regulator promises IFSC more attention and higher charges; To transfer prospectus scrutiny from Stock Exchange
- Markets News Wednesday: Irish shares rise on signal of impending public rescue of Irish banks
- Markets News Wednesday: Japan's exports plunged 41% in May; Oracle income and revenue fell in latest fiscal quarter
- Markets News Wednesday: McInerney Holdings falls 20% in Dublin as UK housing data spooks investors; Oil price close to $133 in New York
- Markets News Wednesday: Oil at $136 in New York and London; Dublin market rebounds; Bank of Ireland up more than 7%
- Markets News Wednesday: Oil price at $142 in New York and London: Deutsche Bank says its expects to report profit in Q2; Dublin market down as CRH falls 7%
- Markets News Wednesday: Oil price in biggest plunge in New York since 1991; Dow falls to 2-year low; European stocks rise
- Markets News Wednesday: Oil retreats from above $119: UK PM may press EU to drop biofuel production target because of surging global food prices
- Markets News Wednesday: OPEC to cut daily oil production by 2m barrels; Euro rises to £0.91 on UK job losses of 75,700 in November
- Markets News Wednesday: Share prices fall in Europe; Apple's Steve Jobs says contract manufacturer no a sweatshop - - Foxconn raises pay by 30%
- Markets News Wednesday: Shares fall again in Europe and Asia as investors continue to dump Greek bonds
- Markets News Wednesday: Shares fall in Europe and Asia; US economist says China’s economic growth will drop to as low as 2% following collapse of a “debt- fueled bubble” within 10 years
- Markets News Wednesday: Shares rise in Europe after dip in Asia; White House claims stimulus program created or saved up to 2m jobs
- Markets News Wednesday: Shares rise in Europe and Asia after surge in US
- Markets News Wednesday: Shares rise in Europe and Asia; Geithner on visit to UK and Germany
- Markets News Wednesday: Shares rise in Europe and Asia; Smurfit Kappa reports pre-tax loss of €52m in 2009
- Markets News Wednesday: Shares rise in Europe and Asia; US federal prosecutors widen investigation of Wall Street firms
- Markets News Wednesday: Shares rise in Europe but decline in Dublin
- Markets News Wednesday: Shares rise in Europe; EUR/USD rate close to 1.25
- Markets News Wednesday: Shares rise in Europe; Oil price rises in New York
- Markets News Wednesday: Shares rise in Europe; Reckitt agrees deal to buy Durex maker to add to "powerbrands"
- Markets News Wednesday: Shares slide; Euro below $1.22 and oil price at $68 in New York - - after German short-selling move and Merkel comments
- Markets News Wednesday: Singapore reports stunning 18.1% GDP growth in H1 2010; Tesco Ireland to add 748 new jobs
- Markets News Wednesday: Smurfit Kappa reports third quarter loss
- Markets News Wednesday: Spain cuts public pay by 5% in austerity plan; UK unemployment rose by 53,000 to 2.51m in Q1 2010
- Markets News Wednesday: Standard Chartered to invest $500m in Agricultural Bank of China IPO
- Markets News Wednesday: Stocks drop in Europe after second day of losses in US
- Markets News Wednesday: Stocks fall in Europe and Asia; UK economy dips 1.5% in Q1 2009; Davy says Irish banks investable again after toxic loan plan
- Markets News Wednesday: Stocks fall in Europe; Citi surges 58% in New York
- Markets News Wednesday: Stocks rise in early trading in Europe; Oil price close to $60 a barrel in New York
- Markets News Wednesday: Stocks rise in Europe and Asia after Wall Street rebound
- Markets News Wednesday: Stocks rise in Europe and Asia; Fall in Dublin
- Markets News Wednesday: Stocks rise in Europe; UK Budget deficit may rise to 11% of GDP
- Markets News Wednesday: Stocks slide in Europe and Asia; Oil price falls below $63 in New York
- Markets News Wednesday: Stocks up in Europe but down in Dublin
- Markets News Wednesday: Stocks up in Europe but down in Dublin
- Markets News Wednesday: Top 25 hedge fund managers earned a total of $11.6 billion in pay in 2008 down from $22.5 billion in 2007
- Markets News Wednesday: Toyota suspends sales of Lexus SUV; Singapore expects up to 9% GDP growth in 2010; Irish pension fund assets rose 13.6% in 2009
- Markets News Wednesday: Tullow Oil to raise £1bn in placing; Shares down in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Wednesday: U.K. jobless rate hits 13-year high; BoE says any recovery in 2010 will be "fragile"
- Markets News Wednesday: UBS reports bigger 2008 loss; European stocks fall after Tuesday's surge
- Markets News Wednesday: UK bank lending rose in August; Shares rise in Europe; Sterling slightly strengthens against euro
- Markets News Wednesday: UK consumer confidence dips - - job claimants fall; France to raise retirement age to 62
- Markets News Wednesday: UK consumer confidence increases in May; Australia avoids recession; US car sales down 34% in May amidst signs of improvement
- Markets News Wednesday: UK economy out of recession; Shares fall in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Wednesday: UK GDP contracted in Q3 2009 less than previously estimated; Eircom quarterly revenue dips 9%
- Markets News Wednesday: UK jobless benefit claims fell in December the most since early 2007; IMF's Strauss-Khan says China's yuan is overvalued; IBM raises 2010 earnings forecast
- Markets News Wednesday: UK reports fall in unemployment claims for first time in almost two years; Australia's economy grows only 0.2% in Q3 2009
- Markets News Wednesday: UK unemployment claims rose the least in a year in June; Bank of Japan cuts its economic forecasts
- Markets News Wednesday: UK unemployment jumps to highest level for 14 years; Shares rise in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Wednesday: United Drug hit by sterling fall; Gold hits new record; Spain's biggest bank raises over $8bn from Brazilian unit IPO
- Markets News Wednesday: US government orders Citi to cancel purchase of $50m executive jet; Irish financials rise again in Dublin
- Markets News Wednesday: Wall Street rains on Obama's day; Bank of America tumbles 29%; Stocks down in Europe and Asia
- Markets News Wednesday: Weather-hit FBD reports 2009 pre-tax loss of €34.6m; German retail sales stable in January despite big freeze
- Markets News Wednesday; Euro weak and shares flat after Tuesday's turmoil; A rise in Irish car sales in April is seen as a signal of recovery in consumer spending
- Markets News Wednesday; European stocks rise; Oil price remains above $125 in New York after Tuesday's new intra-day record
- Markets News: Trichet signals ECB rate cut next week; Anglo Irish plunges 24% to €1.41; IL&P tumbles 31%; Oil price falls towards $60 in London
- Marriott Exits Time-Share Development
- Marriott Expands in Europe
- Marriott Warns of More Challenges
- Martin says he is determined that the global trade talks will not result in Irish farmer interests being sacrificed
- Massive US financial bailout to cost $700 billion; US urging Japan, Germany, the UK and other countries to establish similar programs to rescue their troubled firms
- MasterCard to acquire Irish payments software firm Orbiscom for $100 million
- MasterCard Worldwide Centers of Commerce Index 2008: London in top spot as Emerging-market cities climb; Dublin gets 31st position in ranking of 75 global cities
- Matteo Ricci: an encounter of civilizations; the first Western visitor to the Forbidden City - - Seamus Grimes, Shanghai
- Matter of Debate: Bottom in Commercial-Property Values
- Mattress Maker to Open New Facility
- Maui Prince Hotel Faces Foreclosure
- McCreevy says current levels of Irish public spending "will have to be pruned and pruned hard"
- McCreevy's Ryanair says €10 travel tax responsible for collapse of Irish tourism; Recession irrelevant in argument for voodoo economics
- McEvaddy brothers lead Irish investors in €800 million development near new Berlin Airport
- McEvaddy brothers lead Irish investors in €800 million development near new Berlin Airport
- McInerney Holdings reports H1 2008 loss of €53.6 million
- McInerney reports 2008 loss of €206.5m
- McInerney says value of its Irish property has more than halved since mid-2008; Reports H1 2009 loss of €171m
- Measuring Ireland's Progress 2008: Ireland lost competitiveness in last decade; Became second most expensive EU country for consumers
- Measuring Ireland's Progress Report 2008: In 2006, Ireland had the second highest GDP per capita in the EU 27 at 45.4% above the EU average. However, based on GNI - Gross National Income- Ireland was the fifth highest at 25.2% above the EU 27 average
- Meat industry welcomes Cowen's pre-election announcement of €69 million in grants for Irish beef and lamb processing sectors
- Meath farm sells for €13.5 million; Irish farm land most expensive in Europe
- Media and Great Recession: US focus top down while impact on people secondary
- Mediterranean people shun Med Diet says FAO; Spain, Greece and Italy have become the EU’s biggest fat guzzlers
- Medium term economic recovery in Ireland will be largely jobless; Average annual unemployment rate of 12.6% will hold until at least 2014
- Meet the Nouveaux Neighbors
- Mega Sign Stirs More Debate
- Melco Sees Upturn for Macau Gambling
- Melodramatic Gestures
- Men who drink alcohol every day can reduce the risk of a heart attack according to 41,438 person study
- MEPs call for mind shift on EU economic governance plus firm targets for EU 2020 growth and jobs strategy
- Mercer calls for limit increases for individual pension contributions for Irish Defined Contribution (DC) pension plans and Personal Retirement Savings Accounts
- Mercer welcomes limited pensions move; TASC warns of failure to address fundamental problems facing the Irish pension system
- Merkel and Sarkozy to make proposals for Eurozone reform before Thursday's summit of EU leaders
- Merkel backs EMF fund proposal for Eurozone
- Merkel calls EU aid for Greece a "last resort"; Trichet provides some goods news for Greek banks
- Merkel calls for return to independent central bank policy; Fears policies could lay groundwork for next financial crisis
- Merkel criticises “cheap money” as policy tool; Morgan Stanley says aggressive Policy Actions will avert both depression and deflation
- Merkel seeks global bond co-ordination; Signals support for Ireland; Trichet says claims of possible Irish default "absurd"
- Merkel slams US and UK governments’ past opposition to stronger regulation of financial markets while Brown says other countries ignored his warnings
- Merkel slams US and UK governments’ past opposition to stronger regulation of financial markets while Brown says other countries ignored his warnings
- Merrill Lynch 2008 loss: $27bn - - 700 staff paid bonuses of at least $1m each; Top four received a combined $121m
- Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey April 2009: Global growth expectations surge. . . and broaden; Less fear, no greed
- Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey Feb 2009: Chinese economic optimism fuelling improved growth outlook
- Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey finds investor optimism highest since 2003 as investors put cash to work
- Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey for May finds surge in bullishness as investors put cash to work; Signs of exuberance appear in rush to Emerging Markets
- Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey for May finds surge in bullishness as investors put cash to work; Signs of exuberance appear in rush to Emerging Markets
- Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey for October finds investors accepting recession reality: Increasing numbers believe equities are undervalued
- Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey June 2008 finds investors most underweight equities in a decade; Europeans go long Oils, short Banks
- Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey May 2008; Inflation overtakes growth as No. 1 Stagflation fear; European investors seek refuge in Oil Sector
- Merrill Lynch reports second-quarter loss of $4.65 billion - more than double the level of analysts' consensus; Total writedowns in past year rise to $40 billion
- Merrill Lynch says low risk assets could offer private investors the best prospects of attractive returns in 2009
- Merrill Lynch Survey of Fund Managers January 2009: Global investor gloom has started to lift
- Merrill Lynch Survey of Fund Managers June 2009: Upturn in global investor sentiment withstood recent sell-off in bonds; European managers remain gloomy
- Merrill Lynch Survey of Fund Managers March 2009: Investors most optimistic about global economy since December 2005
- Merrill Lynch's losses of $29 billion from US subprime mortgages and collateralized debt obligations may save it from paying UK tax for up to 60 years
- Merrill Lynch's Survey of Fund Managers August 2008: Fund managers' fears of inflation plunge; Corporates urged to reduce borrowing as risk of recession rises
- Merrill Lynch's Survey of Fund Managers December 2008: Investor sentiment has stepped back from the brink of despair
- Merrill Lynch's Survey of Fund Managers November 2008: Investors remain unconvinced public policy measures can combat global recession
- Merrill Lynch’s Survey of Fund Managers July: European inflation fears ease as recession risks loom larger; Most stock market analyst earnings estimates in Europe “are in fantasy land”
- Merrill Restarts Talks to Move to WTC Site
- Mexican Real Estate Empire Faces Woes
- Mexican tops world's rich list as billionaires from emerging markets grow; O'Brien is Ireland's richest man - - O'Reilly no longer a billionaire
- Mezzanine Debt Loses Its Shine With Investors
- MGM Mirage Gambles on Hotels in Mideast, Asia
- MGM Mirage May Divest Borgata
- MGM Mirage Sells Treasure Island
- MGM Mirage to Take Write-Downs
- MGM Mirage Weighs Casino Sales
- MGM Plans Hotel in China
- Miami Condo Project Acts as Test Case
- Miami Mogul Plays Buyer, Seller
- Miami Tower Built for Storms
- Miass: Holiday Capital of South Urals. Hilton Head Island Real Estate
- Microsoft Office: A New Twist on the Word Pair
- Microsoft reports 14% rise in quarterly revenues - - 60% profit jump; Amazon posts blowout quarter with sales increasing 42% and earnings surging 71%
- Microsoft reports 2% increase in fiscal first-quarter net income on a 9% rise in revenue
- Microsoft reports first fall in quarterly profit since going public 23 years ago
- Microsoft reports fiscal third quarter profits rose 35%; Amazon posts profit jump of 68% in the first quarter
- Microsoft reports record third-quarter revenue; Net income fall of 11%
- Microsoft reports worst year in 23 years as public company; Tech-dominant Nasdaq Composite Index rises for a 12th day in a row
- Microsoft takes battle to Google with free online Office software
- Microsoft teams up with Irish start-up Zignals to launch beta online service that is claimed will transform investing for the active trader
- Microsoft to buyback $40 billion worth of shares
- Microsoft to cut up to 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months including 1,400 jobs immediately
- Microsoft's fiscal fourth-quarter profit climbed 48%; Amazon's earnings rose 45% on a 41% increase in sales
- Microsoft's fiscal fourth-quarter profit climbed 48%; Amazon's earnings rose 45% on a 41% increase in sales
- Microsoft's profit and sales jump but outlook disappoints
- Microsoft/IDC global study says IT will create 5.8m new jobs and more than 75,000 new businesses by 2013; Creation of 150 new Irish businesses
- Mideast Boom Lifts GE, Other Firms
- Midwest Floods Dredge Up Dispute
- Mind the Cap Rate
- Minerva Deals, and Fight Is Joined
- Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan to remain in the Government while getting treatment for cancer
- Minister for Finance to exclude small Irish airports from the €10 per flight Air Travel Tax - - Donegal Airport, and Sligo Airport
- Minister warns "a type of civil war" exists between workers in Irish public/ private sectors; Suicides jump 43% in Q1 2009
- Minority Concessionaires
- Mix-Up Leads to $1.2 Million Judgment
- Mixed signals on recovery in Europe and the US including the record quarterly earnings from "hedge fund" Goldman Sachs
- Mixed Views on Hotel REITs
- MLP Leningradskii Terminal
- Moderate underlying growth in UK retail sales volume continues
- Modernism for the Masses
- Monday is a Public Holiday in the Republic of Ireland
- Monday June 2nd - Public Holiday in Republic of Ireland
- Monday May 5, 2008 - Public Holiday in Republic of Ireland
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- Money on Interest
- Money spent by Irish people on foreign travel dropped by almost 20% in 2009
- Moody's Downgrades Dubai's Emaar
- Moody's downgrades Ireland's debt; Will monitor plans to cut public spending
- Moody's downgrades Irish Life & Permanent; Staff express concerns about recent events; No confidence in chairman Gillian Bowler
- Moody's Misery Index ranks Spain at No. 1; Ireland gets a fourth ranking
- Moody's says US and the UK are moving closer to losing their AAA credit ratings as the cost of servicing their debt rises
- More action needed to combat spreading World Crisis, IMF says
- More Help for Homeowners?
- More Homes Hit Market in April
- More Households Struggle to Pay For Utilities
- More needed to revive Global Economy says IMF
- More than 900 jobs are to be cut at Quinn Insurance
- More than one in eight US homeowners with a mortgage was behind on payments or in foreclosure process at end of Q2 2009
- More Trouble for Kent Swig
- Morgan and Waning Crescent
- Morgan Kelly: Whatever happened to Ireland?; Bank losses may push Ireland's debt-GNP ratio up to 140% in 2012
- Morgan Stanley chairman says investment bankers are overpaid
- Morgan Stanley economists say global economy is likely to enter pronounced slowdown in the quarters ahead; World’s capital flows to Emerging Market (EM) economies will likely be significantly reduced
- Morgan Stanley Europe chairman says bankers were as unpopular in Davos as "terrorists"
- Morgan Stanley forecasts Eurozone GDP growth to plunge 3.3% in 2009 - - the steepest recession since 1945 - - but recovery expected in 2010
- Morgan Stanley Fund Asks Relief
- Morgan Stanley Ponders Its Property
- Morgan Stanley reports 60% plunge in quarterly earnings
- Morgan Stanley Sells Shanghai Tower
- Morgan Stanley to Sell China Properties
- Morgan Stanley Weighs Ending Hotel Stay
- Morgan Stanley's Albatross: Real Estate
- Morgan Stanley's Albatross: Real Estate
- Morgan Stanley's Waning Crescent
- Morgan Unloads Crescent
- Mori's Big -- and Tall -- Bet on Shanghai
- Mori's Skyscraper Opens in China
- Mortgage Aid Plan Advances
- Mortgage Bankers Sell Building at a Loss
- Mortgage broker to lead Dáil protest against expected Government bailout of Irish developers
- Mortgage Bulls Bid Fed Adieu
- Mortgage Failure Rate Rises
- Mortgage Firms Cool to Principal-Cut Plan
- Mortgage Fraud Jumped 42% in Year
- Mortgage Giants Face Pressure
- Mortgage Giants Take Beating
- Mortgage Insurers Raise Bar
- Mortgage Problems? Fed Can Relate
- Mortgage Program Fuels Risks
- Mortgage Rates Fall to 6.47%
- Mortgage Rates Fell in Week
- Mortgage Rates Fell in Week
- Mortgage Rates Held Steady This Week
- Mortgage Rates Near a Year High
- Mortgage Rates Rose in Latest Week
- Mortgage Rates Unchanged
- Mortgage Remediation Is Found Lacking
- Mortgage Securities Stir in U.K.
- Mortgage Woes Hit Credit Unions
- Mortgage-Backed Bonds Still Have Fans
- Mortgage-Lobby Chief Resigns
- Mortgage-Securities Revival Elusive
- Mortgages Fall Further
- Mortgages Rise Slightly
- Moscow Pays a Debt -- at Last
- Most major banks across the world still don't have adequate capital
- Motor insurance survey says Irish premiums will rise by up to 10% in 2010
- Moviegoers Keep Cinema REIT Rolling
- Mozilo Exits Under a Cloud
- Mr. Mogul's Dream House
- Mubadala Buys Stake in Kor Hotels
- Multi-billion bond fund manager Bill Gross warns US economy not strong enough for government to “gracefully exit” stimulus spending programs
- Multi-billion dollar bond fund manager Bill Gross says greed will come again - - in a generation at a minimum
- Multifamily-Home Builders Inch Back
- Multimodality Hallmarks
- Multimodality Hallmarks
- Murder Spike Poses Quandary
- My $1,200 Radon Job
- Naked Ambition for Rick's Cabaret
- Nakheel Chairman Replaced
- Nakheel Investor Seeks Funding
- NAMA Business Plan: Government forecasts Irish “bad bank” profit of €4.8bn by 2020; €15bn worth of loans will default; Adviser fees of €2.64bn expected
- NAMA denies claim John Mulcahy was involved in Irish Glass Bottle Site valuation
- NAMA says only 25% of loans generating interest; Estimated profit/loss scenarios from +€3.9bn to a loss of -€0.8bn
- NAMA: Cabinet responds to Irish public pressure on "bad bank"; Greens claim credit for following public
- NAR: Metro-Area Home Prices Slide
- NASA climate change pioneer hopes global warming talks in Copenhagen will fail; Cash commitments from rich countries seen as vital for deal
- National Competitiveness Council calls for Irish property tax; Coughlan claims credit for rising chemical exports from US-owned firms
- National Competitiveness Council calls for prioritisation of investment in Dublin and other main Irish cities
- National Competitiveness Council publishes 'Costs of Doing Business in Ireland in 2010' report
- National Competitiveness Council says costs of doing business in Ireland have begun to fall but not "dramatically"
- National Competitiveness Council says generating export-led growth is the only sustainable strategy for Ireland
- National Competitiveness Council says improvements in Irish competitiveness reflect severe recession; Further efforts critical for Irish exports
- National Competitiveness Council says social partnership has vital role to play in improving Irish Living Standards and Wellbeing
- National Consumer Agency (NCA) publishes study on the Irish home construction industry and the consumer in Ireland
- National Consumer Agency confirms major reductions in Irish grocery prices
- National Consumer Agency says price difference of basket of 42 branded goods between Republic and Northern Ireland was 31% at Dunnes Stores and 28% at Tesco
- National Employment Survey: CSO says Irish public sector/private sector pay premium was 19.1% in 2007 for comparable jobs
- National Irish Bank announces closure of 25 branches and 150 job losses
- National Irish Bank joins State guarantee provided by the Danish Government; 3- month Euribor hits 5.35% - its seventh straight record high
- National Irish Bank reports 2009 pre-tax loss of €661 million
- National Irish Bank reports a loss of €49m for the 9 month period ended 30th September 2008; Bad debt provisions soared to €94m
- National Irish Bank reports loss of €552 million in 2008 on property value writedowns
- National Irish Bank reports net loss of €133m in first quarter of 2010
- National Irish Bank reports nine month loss of €496m
- National Irish Bank reports pre-tax loss of €341m in H1 2009; Danske Bank's net income plunges 88% to €100m
- National Irish Bank reports sharp fall in profit as bad debts rise
- National Irish Bank reports strong business growth in first quarter but results hit by credit crisis and additional debt provisions
- National Irish Bank says world on brink of economic slowdown that is likely to have significant impact on Irish economy
- National Pension Reserve Fund lost €1 billion in year to May 2008; Fund of €140 billion in 2025 will only fund 25% to 30% of Irish public pension costs
- National Pensions Reserve Fund - - ex Irish bank investments - - earned 11.7% return in Q3 2009; Average annual return since 2001 at 2.2%
- National Strike: Wealthy Irish trade union leaders should give priority to misery of unemployed and flood victims
- National Treasury Management Agency launches Irish National Solidarity Bond; 50% gross return over 10 years
- National Treasury Management Agency raises another €1 billion to fill red ink gap in Irish public finances
- National Treasury Management Agency raises €1.5bn in bond sales; Yield on 10-year bond was 4.7% compared with 4.4% in the March
- National Treasury Management Agency to borrow €20bn in 2010; Irish national debt rises from €37.6bn in 2007 to €75.2bn in 2009
- Nationalised Anglo Irish Bank requires bigger State capital injection; Announcement this week of biggest business loss in Irish history
- Nationwide UK Consumer Confidence Index fell sharply in April
- Nationwide UK opens in Ireland; Coughlan slams Irish Nationwide's chief's €1m bonus
- NCA says Irish price difference on basket of branded goods at Dunnes Stores, Superquinn and Tesco is €3.60 - - 1.2%
- NCC says Irish industrial electricity prices are 35.5% above Eurozone average: Don't mention wage costs!
- Nearly 30% of fund administrators in Europe will experience a reduction in revenue in 2008
- Nearly 7,000 British Airways agree to pay cuts; 800 will work for no pay in July
- Neither Time Not Tide Waits
- Nestlé Chairman calls on European policymakers to reconsider opposition to genetically modified (GM) crops; Says 10,000 liters of water required to produce as little as one to two liters of biodiesel
- Net financial assets of Irish households fell by 42% in 2007/2008
- Nets Arena Debt Is No Slam-Dunk
- Nets Arena May Be Scaled Back
- Network Development: Assembly Line Efficiency in Implementation and Operation
- New approach needed to fix broken Irish political system
- New book Irish Management 2.0 looks to changing how Ireland does Business
- New cancer cases will grow 30% by 2020; Current-year estimates suggest global economic impact exceeds US$300bn
- New car registrations in Europe fell by 8.2% in September; Ireland down 41% in month - Spain down 32%
- New car sales in Europe rose by 26.6% in November 2009 boosted by scrappage schemes - - down 2.8% in 11 months; Sales in Ireland down by 62.3% year to date
- New cars licensed in Ireland fell in June but at a slower pace
- New cars registered in Europe fell 18.3% in February; German sales up 4%; Ireland down 63%; UK off 21%; Spain tumbles 49%
- New cars sales rose in Europe in June supported by scrappage subsidy schemes; Irish sales fell 39%; Germany up 40%; Spain and UK down 16%
- New Cosmo Hotel Ignores Timing
- New Digs for Darpa
- New Digs for Darpa
- New Gardening Books Crop Up
- New Goldman Building Beset by Problems
- New grim forecasts of global contraction and trade drop on eve of G-20 summit
- New head of financial regulation in Ireland outlines plans for more effective supervision
- New industrial orders fell 2.0% in the Eurozone in January
- New industrial orders up by 0.9% in Eurozone in April after 5.1% surge in March
- New Irish banks recapitalisation plan developing including possible co-investment with State
- New Irish car sales in February rose strongly compared with lows of February 2009
- New Irish housing completions may fall below 10,000 in 2011; Average first time buyer couple paying 13.4% of joint income on mortgage - - compared with 26% in December 2006
- New Irish mortgages issued down 56.4% in Q3 2009; AIB says it financed 40% of all residential property transactions in quarter
- New Irish private cars licensed in January 2010 fell 4.8% compared with January 2009
- New Irish Revenue initiative on undisclosed Funds in Irish Bank Accounts - Deadline Sept 15th
- New Irish VAT on Property Regime to take effect this week - Property Owners, Investors & Landlords must be aware of changes
- New Irish VAT on Property Regime to take effect this week - Property Owners, Investors & Landlords must be aware of changes
- New or Refurbished?
- New or Refurbished?
- New orders for US manufactured durable goods rose in February; New home sales fell
- New orders for US manufactured durable goods fell in June for the second straight month
- New orders for US manufactured durable goods increased slightly in May - the first rise in 3 months.
- New orders for US manufactured goods fell in September
- New orders for US manufactured goods in March increased by 1.3%
- New orders for US manufactured goods rose strongly in April
- New Orleans Looks to 2013 Super Bowl
- New Pact for NYC Rail Yards
- New passenger car registrations in Europe fell by 25.8% in November; Sales in Ireland fell 55.9%
- New passenger car registrations in Europe fell by 7.4% in April following ending of government scrappage schemes
- New passenger car registrations in Europe plunge 27% in January; Iceland down 88.1% - Ireland slid 66.5%
- New President of American Chamber of Commerce in Ireland says Government must lead Ireland in a process of reinvention and transformation
- New Procedure for Leasing NonResidential Property in New Buildings
- New Rules Ease Loans Restructuring
- New scientific study shows Climate Change largely irreversible for more than 1,000 years; There’s no going back
- New start-ups in 2009 fell 10% in 20 of the world's richest nations according to the annual Global Entrepreneurship Monitor
- New survey shows rise in sentiment in Irish retail sector
- New Tax Rules May Hurt House-Hoppers
- New US home sales jumped in April in advance of a tax credit expiry
- New US home sales rose in April as prices continued to fall; Durable goods orders rose; Continuing jobless claims hit a new record for 17th consecutive week
- New US home sales unexpectedly fell in May; Durable goods orders orders rose; Non-defense capital goods orders surged 10.0%
- New World China Executive Quits
- New York Landmark Burns Its Investors
- New York Lender, Burned but Resolute
- New York Stock Exchange to create up to 400 new jobs in Belfast
- New York's 9/11 Site Needed a Logue
- Newcourt asks Bank of Ireland to appoint a receiver; Plc had debt of €36 million at December 2008; Employs over 3,000 people
- Newry prepares for another shopping bonanza as second Irish public staff strike set for December 3rd
- Niall Crowley - an Irish public official of rare courage resigns in response to act of political revenge
- Nicolas Cage Lists Vegas House
- No One Wants Out
- No One Wants Out
- No Recession in Hong Kong Office Sales
- No Sale: A Bad Agent, or a Lousy Market?
- No SoHo for NoHo Image Makeover
- No turn-around yet for the EU-27 labour market; Employment has fallen by 6.0 million persons
- Nobel Laureate Krugman says "Erin go Broke" as Coughlan arrives in Washington
- Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2009: Americans Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson are the winners; Ostrom is first female economist to win
- Nobel-winning economist Paul A. Samuelson dies at age 94
- Nokia sues Apple for iPhone patents infringements
- Non-Irish external candidate appointed Head of Financial Supervision at "new" Central Bank of Ireland
- Nonfarm US private employment fell 20,000 in February
- Nordstrom Hopes for Business as Usual
- Norkom reports 37% rise in half-year revenues
- Norkom reports full-year profits rise of 50% as US sales pushed revenue up 64%
- Norman Borlaug - - Father of Green Revolution - - dies; Credited with saving more lives than any other person who has ever lived
- Northern Ireland economy PMI in June suggests that the most intense phase of recession may have passed
- Northern Ireland PMI for November shows ending a period of contraction that had lasted for twenty-three months
- Northern Ireland PMI in December 2009 signalled business activity in Northern Ireland’s private sector fell in month despite influx of Southern shoppers
- Northern Ireland private sector economy continued to contract in October but at slowest rate since the start of 2008
- Northern Ireland's private sector worsened in September with both business activity and new work falling
- Northern Ireland: Output and employment both fell in May; Output price inflation hits new survey high
- Norway first European country to raise interest rates since crisis began
- Norway's wealth fund rises to $455bn on record 13.5% return in third quarter of 2009
- Now Malibu Finally Has a City Hall
- NTMA lauds "great success" in issuing a new Irish 10-year €6 billion benchmark debt bond with annual yield of 5.9%
- NTMA raises €1.5bn in new borrowing; Ireland has completed 90% of its long term borrowing programme of €20bn for 2010
- NTR boosts profit with sales of Airtricity and West-Link Bridge
- NTR loses up to €35 million after collapse of German biodiesel venture; Takes controlling stake in US-based Wind Capital Group
- Number of Americans collecting jobless benefits grows to record 5.47 million
- Number of Americans who signed contracts to buy second-hand homes in October fell as credit woes fuelled housing slump
- Number of EU Common Agricultural Policy millionaires rises 20% in 2009
- Number of Irish companies going bust falls for third consecutive month in May
- Number of Irish Visits abroad down 7% in Q2 2009 -- first annual drop since 1991
- Number of US workers filing new jobless benefit claims jumped last week; Durable goods orders surged in January on 126% rise in aircraft orders
- Number of visitors to Ireland plunged by over 18% in May; Irish residents visiting overseas fell 10%
- Numbers employed in Irish Construction down 15.2% in June
- NYU Buys Forbes Building in New York
- O'Keeffe announces 100 new jobs at US medical devices firm in Galway
- O'Keeffe provides €7m fund for academic researchers to commercialise their work
- O'Keeffe says Irish companies to create 60,000 new jobs by 2015 as spin again clashes with reality
- O'Leary condemns "clueless Government" for appointment of "failed bank director" Dilger as DAA Chairman; ex-Greencore boss retired with €13.5m pension lump sum in 2008
- Obama administration announces sweeping overhaul of Great Depression era financial regulation
- Obama administration faces opposition from regulators as Goldman Sachs returns to business as usual
- Obama administration forces out General Motors chief in return for public support
- Obama administration is seeking mini-stimulus of $200bn to help the economy "out of a very deep valley"
- Obama administration signalls rowback on "socialized medicine"
- Obama administration to make proposals on avoidance of US tax by US corporations operating overseas
- Obama administration’s toxic assets plan triggers big share rally
- Obama Adviser Resigns as Loans Surface
- Obama announces regulatory reform; Poll says majority want federal deficit cut; "Money changers" lobby Congress
- Obama bank rescue plan fails to live up to "shock and awe" billing and spreads "shock and ugh" gloom on Wall Street
- Obama blames economic crisis on era “of greed and irresponsibility"; "our collective failure to make hard choices" - - Inaugural Video
- Obama defends multi-front agenda; Tells business leaders he wants lower corporate tax rate while closing loopholes
- Obama hints at hopes for recovery; Bernanke talks of slowdown in decline in US economy
- Obama in State of the Union address focuses on US economic issues; Federal Reserve more optimistic on economy
- Obama in stunning health reform victory; House backs historic change; Senate approval expected
- Obama in stunning personal and historic triumph; Fears for Irish jobs a reprise of 1863
- Obama may have to play the Nixon card with China in 2011
- Obama Message Homes In on McCain
- Obama outlines ambitious agenda at joint session of Congress; “day of reckoning has arrived” after years of financial irresponsibility
- Obama outlines tax crackdown on US multinationals to raise $210 billion over decade; Ireland, Bermuda, Netherlands identified as corporate tax havens
- Obama plan to help US economy return to positive growth later this year
- Obama planning economic stimulus worth more than $500 billion; Plans to announce his economic team today
- Obama prepares for $1 trillion deficit; AIG seeks additional $27 billion; Carmakers await $25 billion lifeline; Wall Street prepares to axe 70,000 more jobs
- Obama proposes budget deficit of $1.75 trillion or 12.3% of GDP - - highest since 1942
- Obama pushes health care plan at primetime press conference
- Obama raises issue of China's dollar-pegged currency at time of rising tensions
- Obama says he wants to get the government out of the private sector as fast as possible; Federal Reserve says economic outlook has “improved modestly”
- Obama says his administration has pulled the US economy "back from the brink" ; "Dr. Doom" sees pace of contraction slowing
- Obama says the US economy is showing "signs of progress"
- Obama says US can expect “trillion-dollar deficits for years to come”
- Obama signs jobs support bill; US labour market will recover at a “lackluster” pace
- Obama to announce bank levy Thursday; Crisis inquiry panel chief says on lack of accountability: "like the ‘Murder on the Orient Express’: everyone did it”
- Obama to announce nomination of Fed chairman Ben Bernanke for second term
- Obama to become America's 44th President today; First non-white among 43 men to hold the office since 1789
- Obama to propose sweeping financial regulation plan
- Obama to speak on Wall Street on Lehman collapse anniversary; Lawyers and accountants set to rake in $1bn in fees bonanza
- Obama Uses Housing to Target Swing States
- Obama’s top economic adviser urges world leaders to pump more money into economy as recession expected to be L-shaped
- OECD and FAO see agricultural commodity prices remaining high and growing more volatile; Brazil’s share of world meat exports is expected to grow to 30% by 2017
- OECD and UNCTAD say G-20 countries have avoided new protectionist barriers to inward investment
- OECD area exits recession in third quarter
- OECD competes with IMF to chart a way forward out of the current global financial crisis
- OECD composite leading indicators point to continued expansion
- OECD Composite Leading Indicators signal slowdown for major OECD economies; Moderate downturn in China
- OECD countries need to create 17m jobs to get employment back to pre-crisis levels; Ireland needs 318,000 jobs to return to 2007 level
- OECD countries need to create 17m jobs to get employment back to pre-crisis levels; Ireland needs 318,000 jobs to return to 2007 level
- OECD cuts its growth forecast; Says European Central Bank should keep its benchmark rate on hold
- OECD Factbook 2010: Household debt reached more than 120% of disposable income in UK, Canada, US, Japan and Ireland before onset of crisis in 2008
- OECD Health Data 2009: Percentage of foreign-trained doctors tripled in Ireland and Finland between 2000 and 2007
- OECD Irish Public Service Report: The Buck Still Stops Nowhere; Brian Cowen has no record of challenging conventional wisdom
- OECD publishes Factbook 2009; This year's edition focuses on inequality
- OECD recommends Irish wage restraint; Forecasts 2008 growth at 1.5%
- OECD Report on Irish Public Service: Lack of Strategic Vision, Poor Leadership; Limited Accountability and Performance Evaluation; Many Performance Initiatives and Isolated Reforms that do not Reinforce each other
- OECD reports strong growth in US and Japan but weak activity in Eurozone
- OECD says economic activity to fall by 0.9% in US in 2009; 0.5% in Eurozone and 0.1% in Japan as countries enter protracted slowdown
- OECD says economic growth pick-up from late 2009 will ease slightly in US, Europe and Japan in first half of 2010
- OECD says GDP stabilised in second quarter of 2009; Turning point expected soon
- OECD says global technology industry may have passed a turning point
- OECD says growth in development aid continued in 2009 despite financial crisis; Sweden gets top ranking for ratio of national income spent
- OECD says in Ireland only one out of three people with disability has a job - one of the lowest shares among its 30 member countries
- OECD says Ireland’s pension funds topped country real value losses in 2008 at 37.5%; More than 30% of Ireland’s pensioners live in poverty - - third worst of 30 countries
- OECD says Labour Discrimination remains big problem; Many workplaces keep out both women and ethnic minorities
- OECD says performance gap between the US and European economies is at its narrowest for almost two decades; Inflation threshold growth rates at 2.5% for US - 2% for Eurozone
- OECD says recession is taking a toll on tax revenues in the developed world; Tax burden in 2008 falls to 35.2% of GDP
- OECD says recovery from global recession likely to arrive earlier than expected but the pace of activity will remain weak
- OECD says rising public debt burdens will force governments to improve efficiency; Maybe in Ireland?
- OECD says share of public spending on health rose from average of 12% in 1990 to an all-time high of 16% in 2008
- OECD says trade flows collapse in Q4 2008 but signs of falls easing in early 2009
- OECD says upturn in composite leading indicators for April may be temporary or a more durable turning point
- OECD says weak global recovery in sight but damage from crisis likely to be long-lasting; Irish economy will recover in 2010 but at a slow pace.
- OECD says world’s main economies are looking to “green growth” as the way forward out of current crisis
- OECD survey says French spend more time sleeping than anyone ; Nearly double time eating than Americans, Canadians or Mexicans
- OECD unit labour costs fall 0.9% in fourth quarter 2009; Up 2.4% in Ireland but down 1.8% in 12-month period
- OECD upgrades 2008 US economic growth forecast; Downgrades Japan and the Eurozone; Forecasts recession in UK
- OECD warns job losses in high-income countries from financial crisis may rise to 25 million
- OECD, WTO and UNCTAD call on G-20 for commitment to open trade/investment; World trade in June 2009 was 19% below peak at April 2008
- OECD, WTO and UNCTAD renew calls to G-20 countries to resist protectionism
- OECD’s Economic Survey of Ireland: Lenihan says report should be "compulsory reading"; Warns about "false economic scientists"
- Office and Retail
- Office Developers Revive Plans
- Office Rents Dive as Vacancies Rise
- Office Rents Dive, Vacancies Rise
- Office Slowdown in Moscow? No, 'Rents...Are Ridiculous'
- Office Space Is Emptying Out
- Official figures show 6,700 full-time workers were made redundant in January; Live Register expected to show rise of about 13,000
- Official Will Regulate Mortgage Giants
- Oil hit new intra-day record of above $122 a barrel on Tuesday; Goldman Sachs says world may face a "super-spike" with crude in range of $150 to $200 a barrel as early as October
- Oil price falls below $120 a barrel in intra-day trade Monday in New York; Eurozone Producer Prices surged to 8% annual rate in June
- Oil price surges above $135 in New York; International Energy Agency preparing sharp downward revision of its oil-supply forecast
- Oil price surges back to $142 in New York and London; OPEC may slow production capacity investment if oil demand falls through conservation and use of alternatives
- Oil Spill Delivers Recovery Setback
- Oireachtas Commission proposes a default sacrifice cut of 10% in Irish politicians' expenses
- Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee issues documents on 2008 banking crisis; Anglo judged "resilient" without knowledge of true state of loan book
- On Bleecker, Money Talks Ever Louder
- On Track with Azimut
- One Room or a Mansion?
- One Step Ahead
- Online advertising expenditure in Ireland in 2009 reached €97.2m or maybe not
- Online advertising in Europe surges 40% to €11 billion in 2007; Netherlands, Norway and UK in the lead - Ireland a digital laggard
- Only a Buyer Knows a Home's Value
- Only just over half of Irish workers have a pension
- Only €41.6 million was invested domestically in Irish commercial property market in H1 2009
- OPEC cuts forecast for global growth in oil demand in 2008
- Opec’s president says oil prices could hit $200 a barrel; 60% of the world’s poorest people live in resource-rich countries
- Open for Business: Turkey
- Options for Storing Your 'Stuff'
- Opus Shows Trouble at Private Developers
- Oracle buys Sun in $7.4 billion cash deal
- Oracle with support of US antitrust authorities rejects European Union objection to proposed $7.4bn acquisition of Sun Microsystems
- Origin Enterprises reports net loss of €75.7m in year to July 2009 after writedown of property values by €134.4m
- Otherworldly Connections
- Otto Family Stakes Claim in West
- Our fiscal hole continues to deepen - - Pat McArdle, Ulster Bank
- Out of Stock
- Out of Stock
- Out of the Frying Pan
- Outlets Sale Saves David Lichtenstein
- Outlook for EU service sector worsens; Outlook bright for BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China
- Output at Japanese manufacturers rose solidly in February according to PMI data; Official data showed Japan's industrial output increased for an 11th consecutive month in January
- Over 300 people each work day are being made redundant in Ireland according to February data
- Over 900,000 fewer trips to Ireland in 2009
- Overall Mobilization
- Overhaul Beneficiary: Medical Offices?
- Overseas trips to Ireland tumble by 600,000 in 2009 compared with the same period last year
- Overseas Visits by Irish Residents rose 13% in 2007
- Overseas visits to Ireland down 13% in Q4 2009
- Overseas visits to Ireland for September 2009 return to September 2004 levels
- Overwhelming majority of Americans support health care reform; Report highlights 5 keys for organisational innovation in health care
- Owners Stay Put and Rents Rise
- Owners Think Home Values Have Risen
- O’Keeffe announces 50 jobs over 3 years in 'pioneering' new Irish internet platform Weedle
- O’Keeffe announces €25m grants over 5 years for 139 researchers to carry out "cutting-edge" Irish research
- O’Keeffe to "lead drive" to create 117,000 net new Irish jobs in innovation over next 10 years
- Pace of global manufacturing recovery eased in June as growth of new orders and output slowed
- Paddy Power expands to Northern Ireland with acquisition of bookmaker McGranaghan Racing for £19 million
- Paddy Power facing headwinds in 2009; Group has no debt and cash of €96m; Announces acquisition in Australia
- Paddy Power reports turnover has grown strongly; Planned entry to French market
- Paddy Power reports 10% increase in H1 2008 pre-tax profits; Lowers outlook
- Paddy Power reports profit before tax in H1 2009 fell 34% to €34.1m but performance has been robust
- Paddy Power says 2008 operating profit will rise 14%
- Paddy Power Trader says precious metals’ trading proves magnetic for financial spread bettors; Equity trading increases despite new short-selling trading restrictions
- Painting Without That Smell
- Palm Beach House Priced at $72.5 Million
- Paltry Payout Likely for Piedmont
- Panel Rebuffs Trade Center Developer
- Panel to Review Senator's Loans
- Panic on Wall Street: Barometers of stress hit World War II levels; Fears grow about credit-default swaps on more than $62 trillion in debt
- Paradise Lost for Wealthy Resort Novice
- Paris Isle, Deserted No More?
- Paris Office Towers on Block at Tough Time
- Partnering between IT and business is critical for success as the economy improves says report; Business in clouds on cloud computing
- Paulson Cuts Price of Hampton Home
- Paulson Drove Rescue Plan
- Paulson Sees Credit Crisis Waning
- PayPal to add 100 jobs in Dublin
- PCH international - the Irish-based global supply chain services firm - receives $21 million in venture funding from 3 Silicon Valley venture capital firms
- Pending US home sales activity rose in August; Up to 50% of sales in some states such as California have come from foreclosures
- Penn to Buy Fountainebleau
- Penny drops as National Consumer Agency decides to launch price comparison site; "A long threatening comes at last"
- Pension plan deficit hits €7.6 billion for Ireland's ISEQ companies
- Pensions Give Property a Shot
- Pensions’ over-exposure to equity market leaves Ireland vulnerable
- People Who Live in Glass Houses
- Perfect US consumer storm until mid-2009 - long period of convalescence to follow; Germany proposes €130bn EU stimulus
- Perm: Running with Hurdles. Rancho Cordova Real Estate Agent
- Permanent tsb to raise variable mortgage interest rates
- PermanentTsb bank plans to close its network of 48 Tied Agents across Ireland
- Perot Firm Forfeits Stake in Project
- Perot Fund Liquidates as Debt Bets Turn Sour
- Pfizer - - the world's biggest pharmaceutical firm -- is to cut 785 jobs at its Irish operations
- Pfizer in talks to acquire rival drug maker Wyeth - Big Pharma's biggest employers in Ireland
- Pfizer reports second-quarter net income more than doubled; Wyeth posts 6.4% fall in net income
- Pfizer to fire up to 800 researchers worldwide as annual R&D budget of $7.5 billion fails to fill drugs pipeline
- Pfizer to invest €11m in new research laboratory at its Ringaskiddy site in Cork
- Pharmaceutical Industry: Proportion of sales from newer drugs drops; $65bn spent in US on R&D in 2009; 200,000 jobs to go in 2009-2015
- Philadelphia May Provide Housing Lesson
- Philly Office Market Defies Curse
- Phoenix Hotels Bear Brunt of Downturn
- Phoenix Investors Struggle to Hold On
- Phoenix Mall Stalls
- Phoenix's CityNorth Heads for Foreclosure
- Pigmeat company Rosderra Meats puts 850 workers on protective notice because of health scare; Processors need up to €1bn from the Government
- PIMCO - - the US bond fund manager - - forecasts “new normal” in global economy; W-shaped recovery in US
- Plan Coming on Commercial Loans
- Planned UK retail developments are being suspended on a large scale because of the credit crisis; A worst case Residential Market forecast predicts a 10% fall in mainstream market values in 2008 and further 15% in 2009
- Planning Office Space
- Planning permissions for Irish dwelling units in third quarter down 43.9% on Q3 2008
- Plans Are Tough Sell in San Francisco
- Players Shun Faded Pontiac Silverdome
- Plaza Hotel Owner Is Sued
- Plying the Foreclosure Market
- PMI data shows Japan's service sector contracted in December; Activity robust n Chinese and Indian sectors
- PMI survey data for China and India shows strong manufacturing growth in March in both countries
- Pocket-Sized Telecoms
- Poland seeks $20.5 billion credit line from IMF
- Poland's economy remarkably robust; Reforms required to ensure sustainability
- Policymakers need to address systemic risk says IMF; Recovery turning point to begin in October, November, or December 2010
- Political and economic reform in conservative Ireland and the promise of an "everlasting boom"
- Political and legal aspects of the EU/IMF rescue package
- Ponzi fraudster Madoff jailed; Began scam during 1991 recession
- Ponzi fraudster Madoff's chief aide pleads guilty
- Ponzi king Madoff to plead guilty; Investors told investments were worth $64.8 billion - - no trades executed for at least 13 years
- Poor managerial leadership increases not only employee sick leave but also risk of long-term sickness
- Positive Notes on Housing Deal
- Post Properties Finds No Takers
- Post's Meager Prospects
- Post-Dubai, Syria on Rise
- Premier Irish home guarantee registrations fell 61% in May
- Prepare now for the technology-savvy customer of 2013 counsels a new report from the Economist Intelligence Unit
- President Barack Obama's top economics adviser Lawrence Summers says bailout giant AIG's bonus plan "outrageous"
- President Obama meets resistance on massive spending plan from Republican senators
- President Obama warns Wall Street he is serious about financial regulation
- Pressures Grow for Property Players
- Price Drops to Continue
- Prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages 39% above EU27 average in Denmark in 2009; Ireland was 29% ahead; Netherlands, Spain and UK were up to 10% below
- PricewaterhouseCoopers certified Indian outsourcing firm Satyam had $1.1 billion in cash when the real number was $78 million
- Pricey Lesson in Office Space
- Private Equity Firm Looks to Texas Builder
- Private Equity's Property Problems
- Private sector activity in Northern Ireland fell at the fastest rate in ten months in February
- Production at Irish Manufacturing Industries fell 4.5% in year to July 2008
- Production of motor vehicles in Europe fell 35% in first quarter of 2009; Exports of German cars will fall by 30% in 2009 as domestic sales boom
- Productivity surge boosts growth and living standards in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
- Productivity surge boosts growth and living standards in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
- Profit Rises at Sun Hung Kai
- Profits earned by Irish hotels have plummeted by 50% since 2007; Room rates said to have dropped to 1999 levels
- Profound demographic and social changes transforming oil-rich Gulf region
- Progress Is Slow in Coming to Hard-Hit City
- ProLogis CEO Resigns
- ProLogis Scales Back
- Property Agents Rethink Plans
- Property Funds Return to Deal Making
- Property Investors Eye Spain
- Property Loss Pounds Morgan
- Property Mogul Poised to Fall Again
- Property Novices Drive Hong Kong Prices Up
- Property related lending accounted for 61% of outstanding Irish private sector credit in Q2 2009
- Property related private sector lending accounted for 63% of total Irish private sector debt in December 2009; Manufacturing lending fell 20%
- Property Taxes Irk Homeowners
- Property Vets Work Out Debt Woes
- Providence and Star Energy begin Ulysses Project carbon sequestration and natural gas storage potential study offshore Dublin
- Providence Resources acquires Louisiana oil firm for $67.5 million
- Providence Resources announces north Sea option share
- Providence Resources in Spanish Point farm-out agreement offshore Ireland
- Providence Resources offered new acreage in UK
- Providence Resources reports pre-tax profits of €1.5m for 2007 boosted by higher oil prices
- Providence Resources says seismic study of Drombeg prospect off southwest Ireland to begin
- PRSI exemption scheme for promoting Irish job creation launched; Backdated to Jan 01, 2010
- Public Debt Limit Enters Housing Debate
- Public debt of rich countries to rise to 133% of GDP in 2020 from 102% in 2010; Ireland to spike at 118% - - up from 28% in 2007
- Public economists confirm Irish public service pay benchmarking was a fraud; Premium on private pay increased dramatically from 9.7 to 21.6% between 2003 and 2006
- Public finance problems in Greece posing “a very serious challenge” for the euro; Estonia likely to be the next country to join the Eurozone
- Public Holiday in Republic of Ireland - - Monday May 04, 2009; Members of Oireachtas claim "tradition" of Tuesday free as well!
- Public pensions accrued liability over €108bn; Irish trade union leaders' pay/benefits top €200,000
- Public spending reduction search progresses as Irish Government goes on annual leave
- Pulte Buys Centex, Tries Branding
- Pulte Homes Gives Discount to New Buyers
- Pulte Seeks Shelter in a New House
- Pulte to Buy Centex in Housing Bet
- Push to Finish Tallest Tower
- Pushing the Envelope on Vegetables
- Qataris Continue London Buying Spree
- Qualceram Shires reports pre-tax loss of €3.4m in H1 2008: Revenues plunged 28% on impact of UK and Irish housing contractions
- Qualceram Shires says first-half sales will fall by 30% because of the Irish housing slump
- Quality of Living Global City Rankings 2008: European cities dominate; Zurich, Vienna and Geneva top cities; Dublin gets ranking of 25 of a 215 sample
- Quality Offices for the Picking
- Quarterly National Household Survey Q1 2008: Irish employment expanded at slowest pace in five years; Most employment growth was attributable to Non-Irish nationals
- Quarterly National Household Survey: Irish unemployment rate rises to 5.1%; Non-Irish national labour force growth falls to 25,700; 24,800 unemployed non-Irish nationals
- Questions Surround Fannie, Freddie
- Quinn Glass to appeal UK Council order to demolish Ellesmere Port factory following planning dispute with Irish-controlled Ardagh Glass
- Quinn Group issues statement on its financial position
- Quinn Group issues statement on its financial position
- Quinn Group withdraws objection to appointment of permanent administrators of its insurance division
- Quinn Healthcare announces price hike of 15% in 2010 at time when Irish annual deflation is at 6.6%
- RaboDirect Ireland launches Business Savings Account - Instant Access at 4% AER rate of interest
- Radiation dose received by the Irish population shows a 9% increase over previous estimates
- Rally in raw materials prices to fizzle as hopes of early return to strong economic growth fade says Economist Intelligence Unit
- Rapid growth in Asia: Outlook for the poor can range from hope to despair
- Rapid growth in foreign R&D centres in China but many investments are modest
- Rate of contraction in Irish construction activity eased again in March but remained sharp
- Rate of contraction of Eurozone services output eased in July to weakest since October 2008
- Rates Improve For Some Pricey Homes Loans
- RBS/Markit Flash Eurozone Composite Output Index: Employment cut in July as output falls at fastest rate since 9/11
- Re-conception and the Rest of “Re-”
- Readymix expects to report a loss €3.9 million for the first quarter of 2008 because of the construction sector downturn
- Readymix to report first half loss of €10 million
- Real Madrid remains the world’s largest revenue generating football club
- Real Madrid remains world’s largest revenue generating football club according to 2009 Football Money League
- Real price of Amsterdam house only doubled in more than 350 years
- Real-Estate Brokers Arrested
- Real-Estate Bust Hurts Lending for Little Guys
- Real-Estate Cap Rates Rise
- Real-Estate Downturn Hurts Dubai's Ad Market
- Real-Estate Drop Has a Green Lining
- Real-Estate Executive Is Found Dead
- Real-Estate Industry Pushes Fed on TALF
- Real-Estate Player Poised to Pounce
- Real-Estate Slump Thrusts Lenders Into Unfamiliar Roles
- Real-Estate Slump Upends Property Funds
- Real-Estate Woes of Banks Mount
- Reassuring Retirees
- Receiver appointed to Irish operations of Waterford Wedgwood; Glass making in Waterford dates from 1783; Czech immigrant Charles Bacik revived industry in 1947
- Receiver Starts to Sell Wextrust Properties
- Receivers' Catch: Foreclosures
- Recession Adds to WTC Troubles
- Recession catalyst of Business Change; New trends emerging in supply chains, corporate finance, workforce dynamics
- Recession has been a depression for US blue-collar workers
- Recession Helps Empty Office Space
- Recession in UK manufacturing deepened In February as output and employment fall at survey record rates
- Recession increases suicide and murder but cuts road accident deaths
- Recession Ireland 2008: It may be like a Feast and a Famine as Celtic Tiger declared dead but all is not lost
- Recession Turns Malls Into Ghost Towns
- Recession, It Seems, Can Fight City Hall
- Recessions favour the bold says new Economist Intelligence Unit report which prescribes a more can-do approach
- Record debts for the former world's biggest saver; Japan heading for debt level as much as 300% of GDP by 2020
- Recovery in Eurozone service sector remained fragile in February
- Recovery in global house prices continued in Q3 2009
- Recovery in global manufacturing continued in November
- Recovery of China’s manufacturing sector lost some momentum in May; India's PMI rose to twenty-seven month high
- Recovery of global service sector slowed to a near halt in November - - mainly reflecting contraction in US
- Reducing high public debt will restrain growth for years in the advanced economies
- Redwood Wins Erickson Auction
- Refinancing Arrives
- Regional Buyers Go Apartment Hunting
- Regional Quality of Life in Ireland: In the 2006 Census, 15% of all accommodation was vacant; Leitrim (29.3%) and Donegal (27%) had the highest rates
- Regions, and CEO, Feel the Pain in Florida
- Regions, CEO Feel the Pain in Florida
- Regulator Faults Appraisal Plan
- Regus Hits Rough Seas
- REIT Checks Out Mall Purchases
- REIT Dividend Cuts Loom
- REIT Forfeits a W Hotel
- REIT Moves Rub Executives Wrong Way
- REIT Pay Is Staying Strong
- REIT Rally Facing a Challenge
- REIT Rally Turned to a Rout
- REIT Sector Is Ripe for M&A
- REIT Spinoff Is Proposed for Target
- REITs Are Poised to Pick Up the Pieces
- REITs Book a Blockbuster Quarter
- REITs Bruised by Credit Crisis
- REITs Decline, Still Beat Stock Market
- REITs End Roller-Coaster Year on High
- REITs Gear Up in Germany
- REITs Hitch a Ride on General Growth Story
- REITs Look to Return to Retail Roots
- REITs Rally in Quarter
- REITs Seize a Chance to Deleverage
- REITs' Solid Results May Prove Fleeting
- REITs, Private Equity Vie for Investors
- REITs: Better but Not All-Clear
- Related Group Gives Up Two Condo Towers in Miami
- Reliance, Vornado Join on Shopping Centers
- Relief for Commercial Real-Estate Debt Possible
- Relocation Costs Hit Companies
- Remodeling Flap for Citigroup
- Renewables account for 62% of the new electricity generation capacity installed in the EU in 2009
- Renovators in Limbo
- Rent a Vacation Home and Save
- Rent Looms as Stuy Town Issue
- Renting Out Tokyo's Tight Spaces
- Renting to Family
- Rents Signal Rise of D.C., Fall of N.Y.
- Report by the Irish Small Firms Association says small businesses in Ireland lose on average €793 million per annum through absenteeism
- Report for Irish airlines says €10 travel tax cause of big job/ revenue losses - - a case of more vested interests defending their patch?
- Report says Ireland is not Greece in economics; 2007 Irish peak employment levels will not be seen again until 2022
- Report says Irish commercial property market will be very challenging in 2009
- Reports says collaboration is big challenge for businesses in China; Identifies resistance to sharing information/ continued focus on hierarchies
- Republican takes Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts - - a stunning rebuke for Obama and Democrats
- Republicans end filibuster of US financial regulatory reform bill
- ResCap's Needs Jump to $2 Billion
- Research paper says production subsidies boost Chinese exports; Wen says pressure to raise value of yuan/remminbi "unfair"
- Reserve currencies: An exorbitant privilege or a barrier to competitiveness?
- Residential-TIC Tack Hits Snags
- Resilient Asia poised to lead recovery from Global Recession
- Resilient No Matter the Storm
- Resort Developer Stands by Tiger Woods
- Restored Icons Stir Controversy
- Restrictive budget would kill off Irish economy - - Pat McArdle, Ulster Bank
- Retail business in Eurozone continued to worsen in May; EuroCoin GDP indicator rises for third month in a row
- Retail Ireland says cross-border shopping in November will cost 1,700 jobs; Cheap alcohol biggest attraction
- Retail Ireland seeking reform of reform of lease legislation
- Retail Real Estate in Kazakhstan: Waiting to Seal the Deal
- Retail sales in Eurozone fell 0.6% in April
- Retail sales in Eurozone rose in April for first time since September 2008; Good weather boosted sales of food, drinks and tobacco
- Retail sales in Germany fell for second month in June; Retail giant Metro sees no fast economic upswing
- Retail sales volume stable in both Eurozone and EU27 in March
- Retail Vacancies Hit Multiyear Highs
- Retail Vacancies on the Rise
- Retail vacancy rate for County Offaly is currently 27.1% compared with Ireland county average of 14.7%
- Retailers Press Landlords on Rent
- Retailers Set Their Sights on U.S.
- Retirement Chain Seeks Cash Infusion
- Retrenchment and cost reductions now the default strategies for global financial services
- RetroIndustrial or Imperial Refinement?
- Revenue collected €32.60m in tax settlements in the first quarter 2009; Cork businessman Clayton Love paid €1.4m; Biggest settlement was for €3.8m
- Revenue collects €18.7m in the final three months of 2008 from 89 defaulters
- Revenue collects €20m in the first three months of 2008 from tax defaulters
- Revenue Commissioners gives Irish deposit holders until 15 September to declare any untaxed amounts which they had lodged in their deposit accounts
- Revenue has collected €30m as part of an investigation into deposits of over €100,000 in Irish banks; Deadline for payment of tax on undeclared interest: January 15, 2009
- Revenue publishes list of Irish tax defaulters
- Revenue says Tullamore-based building supplies company paid more than €8 million in taxes and penalties
- Review of the Russian Land Market. Central Oregon Real Estate Agents
- Revival in 'Private-Label Mortgage Securities'
- Revival of Downtown Los Angeles Stalls
- Rich countries face years of belt-tightening to reduce high debt levels; Deleveraging following crises lasts six to seven years on average
- Rich Londoners Finally Feel Pain
- Rise of the BRICs - - Brazil, Russia, India, China - - Chinese economy larger than the three others combined
- Rising costs and depressed demand weigh heavy on UK service sector in June
- Rising costs are top concern of Ireland's multinationals
- Rising inflation dampens the mood of German consumers in May
- Rising Property Taxes Fill Gaps
- Rising sea temperatures over 100 years harming tiny plant life that forms base of oceans' food chain
- Rising US unemployment and contracting economy drove delinquencies on credit card debt and home equity loans to all-time highs in first quarter
- Risk of “lost decade” for the global economy warns ECB economist
- Risk Protection at a Construction Site. Memphis Multiple Real Estate Listings.
- Risks of Large Projects, Luxury Real Estate Las Vegas
- Risks of PreLeasing. Real Estate In Phoenix Arizona
- Risky Construction, Real Estate Land In Idaho
- Risky GE Apartment Loan
- Risky, Ill-Timed Land Deals Hit Calpers
- Room to Let: Finance Firms Need Tenants
- Rosderra Irish Meats to create 120 jobs in Edenderry
- Royal Bank of Scotland - owner of Ulster Bank - surrenders control to UK government for £20 billion in support; Chairman and CEO ousted
- Royal Bank of Scotland - owner of Ulster Bank - surrenders control to UK government for £20 billion in support; Chairman and CEO ousted
- Royal Bank of Scotland's shares plunge on rumours of need for UK public funds; Volkswagen surges; Iceland on the brink as loan from Russia not agreed
- RTÉ - - Ireland's State broadcaster - - seeks windfall from Ireland's corrupt rezoning system; System is tax on property purchasers
- RTÉ facing €68m shortfall having piggybacked on Construction Boom; Lower paid staff to be hit by pay cuts
- RTÉ paying price of reckless mismanagement during boom; 65% of combined surplus of €47 million in 2006/2007 was from pension fund windfalls
- Rufrano's Exit, and Entrance
- Rupert Murdoch says he may sue the BBC for "stealing" content from his newspapers
- Russia's Abramovich Buys Colorado Ranch
- Russia's Pik May Not Roll
- Russian and the Asia-Pacific Region: Developing Markets
- Russian Developers Hit the Brakes
- Ryanair accepts failure of bid for Aer Lingus
- Ryanair and Boeing end negotiations on new aircraft deal
- Ryanair announces 18% schedule reduction at Dublin Airport for Winter 2008/09
- Ryanair announces 20% flight cuts at Dublin base next winter; Estimates Dublin traffic will fall further 250,000 passengers
- Ryanair announces fiscal first quarter net profit of €136.5m boosted by drop in fuel bill
- Ryanair announces full year profits to March 31 2010 of €319m after tax - - an increase of 204%; One-off dividend of €500m to be paid in October
- Ryanair announces temporary closure of operations at 7 bases
- Ryanair calls on Aer Lingus Chairman to apologise for "misleading Aer Lingus shareholders and the Stock Exchange"
- Ryanair condemns Irish Government for losing "500 well paid engineering jobs for Ireland"; Genuine or another publicity stunt?
- Ryanair half-year profit falls 47% to €215m; Fuel up 101% as traffic grows to 32m
- Ryanair issues "apology" to union head David Begg for €30K error on Aer Lingus directorship fees
- Ryanair launches Kerry-Dublin route with free tea and coffee
- Ryanair Letter - Does Aer Lingus really have a viable independent future?
- Ryanair losing edge as it trips up again on buffoonery; Pays £50,100 for libel plus costs for calling rival a liar
- Ryanair makes new bid for its Irish rival Aer Lingus with cash value of €784 million.
- Ryanair manager defects to Aer Lingus - a smaller high fare competitor according to Michael O'Leary
- Ryanair pays tribute to Seamus Brennan
- Ryanair posts fiscal Q3 loss of €11m; Revenues rose 1%; Passengers numbers up 14%; Profit forecast raised
- Ryanair presents Dublin Simon Community cheque for €100,000 from sale of all 10,000 copies of its 2009 Ryanair Cabin Crew Charity Calendar
- Ryanair profit in first quarter falls 85% on oil spike; May post annual loss
- Ryanair raises baggage and airport check-in charges
- Ryanair reports 78% fall in full-year adjusted net profit to €105 million; Loss of €169 million after writedowns
- Ryanair reports 80% increase in half year net profits to €387m
- Ryanair reports full-year profit fall of 10% after fuel costs rise and writedown of Aer Lingus stake
- Ryanair reports Q3 loss of €102m: Forecasts profit for full year
- Ryanair says DAA "telling lies" over Dublin Airport closure
- Ryanair says it could have created 500 maintenance jobs in Dublin Airport; DAA announces 250 new maintenance jobs
- Ryanair says it's is crazy for the Irish taxpayer to be subsidizing regional air routes to the tune of €45m or almost €100 per passenger
- Ryanair says one in three passengers vote for ‘Fat Tax’; Skin colour or gay polls next on agenda?
- Ryanair says passenger numbers grew by 19% in August
- Ryanair says volcanic ash clouds cost it €50m in its fiscal first quarter
- Ryanair slams €2.8 million lifeboat for Aer Lingus CEO Dermot Mannion; Chairman says arrangement is "perfectly normal"
- Ryanair takes delivery of its 200th Boeing 737-800; Says passengers must opt-in for travel insurance
- Ryanair tells AGM outlook has improved from “breakeven to minus €60m” to a current “breakeven” based on Q4 oil remaining at $100 per barrel
- Ryanair to charge web check-in customers for priority boarding
- Ryanair to close two Cork routes
- Ryanair to cut Dublin flights 20%: Blames airport charges; DAA rejects fraudulent claims - - says Ryanair's baggage charges up 600% since 2006; Credit card charges up 300%
- Ryanair to invest €25m in building a new two bay aircraft maintenance hangar in Germany
- Ryanair to provide aircraft to secure the return of stranded holidaymakers after collapse of XL Airways; Low-fares giant warns about booking "flaky, financially stretched airlines"
- Ryanair to switch to web check-in only
- Ryanair unveils 14% capacity reductions at London Stansted
- Ryanair, the Dublin Airport hangar, jobs and a media campaign
- S&P 500 dividends projected to decline 13.3% in 2009; Worst annual fall since 1942
- S&P 500 Q3 earnings down 22%; Financials post fourth consecutive decline; Non-Financials earnings up 18%
- S&P Cuts $16.16 Billion of Alt-A Securities
- S&P Cuts $16.16 Billion of Alt-A Securities
- S&P Cuts Fan-Fred Securities Ratings
- S&P Cuts Mortgage-Insurer Ratings
- S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices for April 2009 have improved; Annual prices in Phoenix down 35%; Las Vegas 32%, San Francisco 28%
- S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices in September shows continued broad declines in prices; Phoenix annual fall at 31.9%; Las Vegas down 31.3%; San Francisco at -29.5%
- S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices: Annual rate decline eases in May; From peak to trough Phoenix and Las Vegas down 54.5% and 53.4% respectively
- S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices: Steep declines in US Home Prices continued in February 2008; Las Vegas down 23% and Miami down 22% in past year
- S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices: US home price decline accelerates; Phoenix in annual drop of 32.7% - Las Vegas down 31.7% and San Francisco down 31.0%
- S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices: US home prices continued to decline in November; Annual falls of 32.9% in Phoenix; 30.8% in San Francisco and 28.7% in Miami
- S&P/Case-Shiller US Home Price Indices through November 2009 provide mixed signals
- S&P/Case-Shiller US Home Price Indices: Data for July shows record declines - Annual falls in Las Vegas, Phoenix, Miami and Los Angeles at -29.9%, -29.3%, -28.2% and -26.2%
- S&P/Case-Shiller US Home Price Indices: National trend of price declines continues; Phoenix and Las Vegas annual falls at -30.7% and -30.6%; Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego- are down more than 25%
- S&P/Case-Shiller US Home Price Indices: Record low annual falls in May 2008 - Detroit prices lower than 2000 - In year to May: Las Vegas down -28.4%, Miami 28.3% and LA 24.5%
- S&P/Case-Shiller US Home Prices February 2009: First time in 16 months annual decline did not set new record; Phoenix down 35.2%, Las Vegas declined 31.7%; San Francisco fell 31.0% in 12-month period
- S&P/Case-Shiller US Home Prices Indices: Prices continue to set record declines in 2008; Phoenix down 34.0%, Las Vegas -33.0% and San Francisco -31.2%
- S&P/Case-Shiller US Home Prices Indices: Prices down to 2003 levels in year to January 2009; Phoenix fell 35.0%, Las Vegas 32.5% and San Francisco 32.4%
- S&P/Case-Shiller US National Home Price Index: Home prices tumbled at record annual pace in Q1 2009 of 19.1%; Phoenix down 36.0%, Las Vegas drops 31.2% and San Francisco fell 30.1%
- Sacramento's 'Blueprint' for Growth
- Sale of Renaissance Center May Not Be Enough for GM
- Sale to Test German Risk Appetite
- Sale-Lease-Backs Brew Anew
- Sale-Leaseback Sticker Shock
- Sales of existing US homes rose in October to the highest level since February 2007
- Sales of existing US homes unexpectedly fell in August for the first time in four months
- Sales of existing/secondhand US homes dipped in February for a third month; Foreclosures/repossessed homes accounted for more than one-third of sales
- Sales of Jameson Irish whiskey grew by 15% by volume in the year to the end of June
- Sales of new US homes fell to annual annual rate of 512,000 in May - the second lowest in 17 years
- Sales of previously owned homes in the US fell in April; Housing stock for sale represents an 11.2-month supply
- Sales of US existing homes fell in March signalling continuation of housing slump
- Sales of US new houses in October fell to lowest since 1991 - down 40% on 2007
- Sales of US second-hand homes rose in March for the first time in four months; Foreclosures accounted for 35% of sales
- San Antonio's River Walk Takes On Water
- Sands Drops Jobs, Bonuses
- Sands Project Causes Worry
- Sands to Raise $2 Billion, Halt Casinos
- Sarkozy says Irish State bank guarantee created a spiral in which money would have gone from country to country depending on who offered the most
- SATIR to establish European Headquarters in Dundalk; First IDA Ireland supported Chinese Company to locate in Ireland will employ 40 over 5 years
- SATIR to establish European Headquarters in Dundalk; First IDA Ireland supported Chinese Company to locate in Ireland will employ 40 over 5 years
- Saturating the Regions
- Saudi Arabia calls for energy summit of producers and consumers; BP chief says era of cheap oil is over; Crude price in New York Tuesday close to $135
- Saudi Arabia promises increased production capacity at global energy summit but oil price rises above $136 a barrel Monday in New York
- Saudi Arabia tells visiting US President George W. Bush it will not increase oil production: Price in New York surges to new record, close to $128 a barrel
- Saxo Bank predicts 2009 will hit all economic lows in its annual list of outrageous/black swan events!
- Schools Fill Vacancies in Office Parks, Shopping Centers
- Schools must do more to motivate tomorrow’s scientists OECD study shows; Finland and New Zealand in the lead for science excellence; Ireland gets 19th ranking
- Schumer Seeks IndyMac Scrutiny
- Science Foundation Ireland announces funding of €11.3million for 68 projects
- Science Foundation Ireland's dud €400,000 computer for managing research funding; Computer illiterates remain in control of public IT spending
- Scientists say entrepreneurs’ brains are different to those of managers; Entrepreneurial process could be taught or enhanced by drugs
- Scottish and Southern Energy - parent company of Airtricity - agrees to sell stake in UK wind project for £308 million
- Scrutiny Turns to Retirement Centers
- Sean and Robin Penn List for $15 Million
- Seán FitzPatrick resigns as Chairman of Anglo Irish Bank over directors' loans investigation; Loans amounted to €150 million in September 2008
- Seán FitzPatrick: From Europe's most successful banker to bankrupt
- Sean Quinn family interests taking long-term shareholding close to 15% in Anglo Irish Bank
- SEC Alleges Mortgage Fraud
- SEC Begins Formal Countrywide Probe
- Second-Home Buyers Go Condo
- Self-Storage Business Faces a Test
- Self-storage: a Shopoholic’s Dream?
- Seller Financing Regains Favor
- Selling a Dallas Home in a Down Market
- Selling Well: 'Outlet' REITs
- Senate Housing Bill Still Not Put to a Vote
- Senate Strikes Housing Rescue Deal
- Senate to Weigh Housing Initiatives
- Senator Edward Kennedy - - a politician who made a difference
- Senator Edward Kennedy - - a politician who made a difference
- Service activity in the Eurozone fell at the slowest pace in April in six months; Rise in PMI index largest since December 2001
- Setting up Logistics Centers
- Setting up Logistics Centers
- Setting up your own business in Ireland– Surviving redundancy
- Severe downturn in Northern Ireland private sector output showed signs of easing in April
- Sewer to Spigot: Recycled Water
- Shadowland exhibition opens in Dublin - - a long-shot effort to give vision to the "bad bank" NAMA property czars
- Shanghai Eyes Buyout of Stalled Project
- Shanghai Hotel Project to Move Ahead
- Shanghai Industrial to Triple Land Bank
- Shareholders Get Left Behind
- Shelbourne Development says it has sold 30% of the units of the Chicago Spire; Raising finance in uncertain times the next step
- Sheriff Takes Law Into His Own Hands
- Shimao Posts Jump in Profit
- Shocks in Commercial Mortgage Trigger Selloff in REIT Stocks
- Shopping Malls, Strip Centers Diverge
- Shopping the Mervyn's Bargain Bin
- Shopping-Center Malaise
- Short Shelter
- Short-time work in Germany: A flexible instrument to fight the crisis according to Deutsche Bank Research
- Shun Tak Plans New Macau Hotel
- Sick leave in Irish civil service almost doubled since 1980s; Average employee absent for over 11 days in 2007
- Signs of Stability at Vornado
- Silence on the Office Airwaves
- Silicon Valley's economy struggles out of recession; Perception of perpetual reinvention beginning to be questioned
- Sillerman's Vegas Dreams Crash
- Silverstein's Other Project
- Silverstein, Officials Talk Trade Center
- Simon Bids $10 Billion for Rival
- Simon Explores General Growth Deal
- Simon Offers to Recapitalize General Growth
- Simon Prods General
- Simon Property's Rents Firm Up
- Simon Puts Ball in Judge's Court
- Simon Readies New Bid for GGP
- Simon Says to Negotiate
- Simon Sweetens Offer for GGP
- Simon to Buy Outlet Landlord
- Simon, GGP Talks Reach Impasse
- Simple explanations and cure for global financial instability
- Singapore Land Developers Hurting
- Singapore's Boomtown Dream Gets Hazy
- Singapore, Hong Kong and the US top the IMD’s World Competitiveness rankings for 2010; Malaysia in 10th place and Ireland slips two ranks to 21st
- Single Irish regulatory institution to be called the Central Bank of Ireland Commission announced; Substantial additional staff has been promised
- Sir Anthony O'Reilly announces £7 million/€10 million investment in Independent News & Media Newry Print Centre
- Sir Anthony O’Reilly to resign as CEO of Independent News & Media; Denis O'Brien associates to join board
- Sites Vie to Offer Bulk Sales of Foreclosures
- Skanska Prospers in U.S., but Stock Slides
- Skiers Boost Tourism in Japan
- Skyline Gets Facelift Ahead of Asian Games
- SL Green Under Fire for Executive Pay
- SL Green's Faith in 100 Church St.
- Slip Sliding Away
- Slow job creation continues to drag on the US economy
- Slow-motion Government promises Irish public service reform; "Festina lente" it's not as "Task Force" gives way for "Expert Group"
- Slowdown Is Reaching Even 'Saskaboom'
- Slowdown Squeezes Vegas Casinos
- Slower contraction of Japanese service sector in May; Full-fledged recovery is some way off
- Slowing Foreclosures May Mask Woes
- Slump Drives Hotels Into Crisis
- Slump Hits Home for Venture Capitalists
- Slump Hits Howard Hughes's Heirs
- Slump Infiltrates German Funds
- Small Banks Face a Looming Hit
- Small business executives remain optimistic about the long term despite global recession
- Small Business in Ireland 2008: 56% of total Irish employment in workplaces where less than 50 people are employed
- Small Creditors Hurt Mall Owner
- Small Firms Association calls for cut in Irish Minimum Wage
- Smoothing Rough Edges. Las Vegas Home Real Estate.
- Smurfit Kappa Group reports pre-tax profits of €61m for the three months to end of September
- Smurfit Kappa reports 47% fall in operating profits in Q1 2009
- Smurfit Kappa reports 7% year-on-year increase in operating profit in the first half of 2008
- Smurfit Kappa reports 73% drop in pre-tax profits in H1 2009
- Smurfit Kappa reports loss in 2008
- Smurfit Kappa reports pre-tax profits more than doubled in first quarter to €90m
- Smurfit-Stone Container considering filing for bankruptcy
- Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
- SocGen Issues Profit Warning
- Solaris Mobile to create 50 "exceptional high value jobs" over three years in Dublin according to Coughlan
- Solicitor warns Irish company directors on trading while insolvent
- Some Buy a New Home to Bail on the Old
- Some countries at “a tipping point” because of double impact of rising food and oil prices; IMF says 75 developing countries at risk
- Some Irish land will have to be dezoned says planning board head; Ireland has 88 planning authorities for population of 4.4m
- Some REITs Flee IPO Altar
- Some solace for Irish poltroon politicians; Brightest not always the best - - difference between intelligence and wisdom
- Something New for the Russian Insurer. Central Coast California Real Estate
- Son Poised to Rise at Macklowe
- Soothing Words for Fannie, Freddie
- Source of House Data Skews Loan Losses
- South China's industrial heartland of Guangdong to raise minimum wage by average of 21% to range of $96 to $150 a month
- South Korea Set to Open a 'City'
- Southeast Asia is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to climate change
- Sovereign bond spreads versus German Bunds in Europe only at historic peaks for Ireland and Austria
- Sovereign Wealth Funds expected to become biggest investors in world’s commercial property markets; Irish Government urged to cut 9% stamp duty rate
- Sovereign Wealth Funds up 18% in 2008 despite losses on investments; Norway has fund of $301 billion - Abu Dhabi at No 1 with $875 billion
- Spain Girds for More Pain as Housing Stalls
- Spain's Economy: Spanish house prices have declined by about 11% from their peak in the first quarter of 2008
- Spanish bank Banco Santander and Sweden's Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken agree acquisition of SEB’s retail banking business in Germany
- Spanish bank Santander raking in cash; May reduce capital in 2010 via special dividend to shareholders
- Spanish energy giant Endesa offers to buy 4 ESB power plants
- Speaker Pelosi calls for emergency support for embattled US car industry as GM shares fall to 65-year low
- Spitzer Is Back in D.C. -- in Real Estate
- Spread Betting company Delta Index invests €3 million in online trading platform
- Spread betting group WorldSpreads boosted by market turmoil
- Squeeze Is on European Property Firms
- Sringboard Mortgages - - Irish Life & Permanent's sub-prime mortgage lender - - to cease trading
- St. Joe Swings to a Loss
- St. Joe's Gulf Presence Not a Plus
- St. Patrick's Day March 17, 2009 - - Ireland's National Day -- tribute to the man who drove some of the snakes from Ireland!
- St. Patrick's Day March 17, 2010 - - tribute to the man who drove some of the snakes from Ireland!; The Spanish origins of the Irish
- St. Regis Resort Turned Over to Citi
- Stability Is Seen in Office Sector
- Stacking Revenue
- Stacking Revenue
- Standard & Poor's downgrades long-term sovereign credit rating on the Republic of Ireland
- Standard & Poor's Global Broad Market Indices lost a combined $17.0 trillion in 2008
- Standard & Poor's Global Stock Market Review July 2008: Annual declines of 61.3% in Iceland; 41.54% in Ireland; 15.53% in UK and 9.77% in US; Canada up 2.77%
- Standard & Poor's reports worst quarter for dividends since 1955; US companies reduce shareholder payments by $77 billion
- Standard & Poor's says "fallen angels" are at an 18-year record high
- Standard & Poor's says global recovery will be delayed until late 2009; World Bank chief warns rich countries not to start pulling back on economic stimulus
- Standard & Poor's says US Big Pharma consolidation and financial policy key to stability
- Standard & Poor’s says active Fund Managers - - both US and international - - underperform benchmarks over long periods of time
- Standard & Poor’s: Majority of Active Fund Managers underperform Benchmarks across all categories over past 5 years
- Standard Life reports 51% jump in first-half profit; Sales of new premiums in Ireland plunge 46%
- Starbucks Leases in Dispute
- Starbucks Leases Spark Disputes
- Start-Up Banks Struggle
- Starwood in Bidding for Corus
- Starwood IPO Is Top in '09
- Starwood Raises Extended Stay Stakes
- Starwood Sees Payoff in Patience
- Starwood to Increase Size of REIT IPO
- Starwood to Relocate Its Headquarters to Connecticut
- Starwood's Profit Falls 15%
- Starwood, Sands Plan Vegas Venture
- State at Crossroads Over Turnpike
- State bailed-out commercial property lender Irish Nationwide reports massive 2009 loss of €2.5bn - - established in 1873 by "working-class men"
- State energy agency SEI announces grants of €4.3 millon for 10 Irish companies involved in developing ocean energy technologies
- State funding of Irish banks may amount to €32bn - - 1 year's tax receipts; Banks accused of "reckless" lending and "shoddy practices"
- State Housing Agencies Pinched
- State Sues Option One
- State-owned Anglo Irish Bank reports loss of €12.7bn for the 15 months to end December 2009 -- the largest loss in Irish corporate history
- States Move to Cut, Cap Property Taxes
- States Ratchet Up the Lures
- Statistical Yearbook of Ireland 2008 - 57% of Irish households had access to the internet in Q1 2007: 31% of all households had a broadband connection
- Statistical Yearbook of Ireland 2009: Population, labour force, education, crime, the economy, agriculture, industry, services and much more
- Staying Alive at the Mall
- Stella Artois owner InBev offers to buy US brewer Anheuser-Busch, maker of Budweiser for $46.3 billion in cash; Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is US brewer's second-biggest shareholder
- Sterling oversold and undervalued according to Bank of Ireland
- Steve Jobs back promoting Apple products
- Stimulus Holds Peril for Firms
- Stockbridge Weighs Deutsche Fund
- Stockbuilding continued to drive OECD GDP growth in the first quarter of 2010
- Stocking or Storing?
- Strapped on All Fronts
- Strapped REITs Get Creative
- Strong recovery in air travel and freight traffic
- Strongest increase in UK commercial property development activity for over two years in September
- Study Finds High Mortgage Fees
- Study of 232 worldwide quoted oil and gas companies shows Investment/Oil Production flat in 2007; Net income rose 2% despite higher prices
- Study says women directors can hurt performance of well-governed companies
- Study warns of impact of "land grab" deals in Africa and other continents by foreign countries and private groups
- Sublease Space Jumps in Manhattan
- Subprime Losses May Be Overstated
- Substantial Irish skills shortage in a number of sectors despite the economic downturn
- Substantial slowdown in Asia amid global turmoil says IMF; Pakistan to get $7.6 billion loan
- Sugarman's iStar Loses Shine
- Suite Dreams Are Made of This
- Sun Hung Kai Ousts CEO
- Sunrise Faces Vacancies, Pile of Debt
- Sunstone REIT to Forfeit W San Diego
- Sunstone to Forfeit Hotel to Lenders
- Super Bowl Hope Is High in Tampa
- Superquinn announces closure of Dundalk store and 400 job cuts
- Supply disruptions will boost some agricultural commodities this year says Economist Intelligence Unit
- Supply of Homes for Sale Declines
- Supply of Irish rental accommodation doubles and rents fall
- Supreme Court rejects protection for Carroll's companies; Says striking that lending banks appear unwilling to provide further funding
- Supreme Court rejects Zoe application for court protection; Liam Carroll’s 51-company group faces impending collapse
- Surprisingly strong recovery in world commodity prices
- Survey of accountants signals brighter Irish business outlook
- Survey of the Irish hotel industry shows profit levels in Dublin have fallen by 8.2%
- Survey says Irish business operating at trough of U-shaped recession
- Survey says Irish CEOs believe Lisbon Treaty rejection damaged Ireland's international reputation
- Survey says Irish commercial property market to recover by early 2010 but reality is likely to be very different
- Survey shows continuing crisis in Irish private sector pensions; Survey suggests almost two-thirds of Irish companies planning to launch new products/services in response to recession
- Survey shows Irish business activity still weakening; Prospects of "bottoming out" but no sight of "green shoots" yet
- Survey shows one in six Irish homeowners struggle with paying their bills
- Survey shows that 47% of all Irish enterprises engaged in innovation activities; No data available on Patents
- Surveyors predict 40,000 more job losses in Irish construction in 2010 from 2007 peak of 269,000 to 1995 low of below 100,000; Call for property tax
- Survive the Irish recession with the TAB Guide to Money, Pensions and Tax 2009!
- Sustainable Energy Ireland expands Funding Programme for Emerging Green Business
- Sweden Sells Property Firm
- Sweden tops rankings of global technology report for first time; Ireland remains at 24th rank behind Belgium and United Arab Emirates
- Sweden's Gapminder shatters economic and environmental myths with online animated graphs
- Swire Plans $3 Billion Property Spin-off
- Swiss bank UBS agrees to provide US government with names of 250 tax evaders; Agrees $780 million fine
- Swiss bank UBS has pressured ex-bank executives to pay back or forego €45.2 million in bonuses
- Swiss bank UBS to end offshore services for US residents and close 19,000 accounts with funds of $18 billion held by American tax evaders
- Swiss government says it will prevent UBS from disclosing details on US tax evaders; Tax evasion not a crime in Switzerland
- Swiss government to take 9% stake in biggest bank UBS; Central bank to fund move of $60 billion worth of toxic assets
- Swiss insurance giant Zurich to create 240 Irish jobs -- cites Euro membership; Planning transfer of £35bn UK life insurance operation to Dublin's IFSC
- Swiss Land Rush Looms if Barrier Falls
- Switzerland launches task force to defend banking secrecy as US piles pressure on UBS over undisclosed accounts
- Taking Aim at a Debt Burden
- TALF Doubts
- TALF Talk
- Talks about an agreement in Congress on the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street imploded on Thursday night amidst a partisan brawl
- Talks on Mortgage Titans Continue
- Tangled in Providers’ Wires
- Tanning Debate
- Taoiseach announces €15 million investment and 35 "highly skilled" jobs to be created by PayPal in Blanchardstown, Dublin
- Taoiseach attends construction commencement of Merck drugs facility in Carlow; Marriott Hotels to create 220 new jobs over five years in Cork
- Taoiseach Brian Cowen returns from Rip Van Winkle's Land
- Taoiseach Brian Cowen signals planned expenditures in the €184 billion National Development Plan may be revised
- Taoiseach launches Innovation Ireland Taskforce report; Says important marketing message for Ministers to carry abroad for St. Patrick's Day
- Taoiseach says 2008 Exchequer returns will show deficit of about €8bn; Deficit in 2010 could rise to €20bn without corrective action
- Tariff race in the 1930s – subsidy race today?
- TARP Panel: Small Banks Face Loan Woes
- Taubman Mall Appeal Rejected
- Tax revenue in the European Union fell to 40.5% of GDP in 2008
- Taxation trends in EU: Corporate tax rate down from over 37% in the mid-1990s to around 26%; Europe’s high-tax/welfare model has failed to shield people from economic crisis
- Taxation trends in the EU: EU27 tax ratio at 39.9% of GDP in 2006; Strongest year-on-year increase in ten years
- Taylor Wimpey to Raise New Capital
- Technology That Can Help With a Home Sale
- Technology That Can Help With a Sale
- Telecommunication in Retail Centers
- Ten big US companies sheltered $58 billion in earnings overseas in 2008; Irish official to begin working with US tax lobbyists next week
- Ten customers of Anglo Irish Bank were lent €451 million to buy shares in the firm in 2008; €300 million to be written off; Loans to directors at €179 million
- Tenant Representation
- Tennis's Wilander Lists Home in Sun Valley
- Tepper Joins Stuyvesant Fight
- Tesco reports 10% rise in underlying annual profit to £3.13 billion despite global recession
- Thai Firm Bets on Strong Market
- The "free market" in these calamitous times
- The "honest Swiss"; tax secrecy and the cost of servicing wealthy foreigners
- The 'Five-Star' Beach Rental
- The Absentee Lawnlord
- The Accidental Renters
- The analysis of indices
- The Anchor Effect
- The Appeal of Russian Cities to Investors: General Criteria
- The big fee "cartels" in Irish professions; Time for Ireland to change "the natural state of things"
- The Big Tilt: Western companies unprepared for the rise of Asia; Senior executives should move to region
- The Brighter Side of Housing
- The Central Bank forecasts slightly smaller contraction of the Irish economy in 2009
- The challenge of creating 160,000 new Irish jobs
- The Corporate Green Thumb
- The Credit Crisis: Denial, delusion and the "defunct" American economist who foresaw the dénouement
- The Custom McMansion
- The Development of the Superstar Urban Plan
- The Donald Dinna Ken the Scots
- The Dow dips to lowest in six years; US bank shares fall to a near 17-year low
- The e-book: Publishers will have to adjust business model to customers’ new reading habits
- The Eco-Kitchen Challenge
- The Economist forecasts Ireland will endure 3 years of recession; A lesson from the Little Dutch Boy!
- The EMU and the PIGS or PIIGS to the slaughter
- The End of White Flight
- The ending of the renminbi peg with the US dollar; China tries to stall rise in currency
- The Euro is a success; Free lunch yet to be invented
- The euro, Ireland and the quest for instant competitiveness
- The Euro: Despite the markets and prophets of doom, the common currency is safer than ever
- The Euro: EMU@10 - successes and challenges after ten years of Economic and Monetary Union
- The European office rental index grew by 1.0% in Q1 2008; Dublin rent growth flat; Fifth highest rents in Europe after London’s West End, Moscow, London’s City and Paris
- The European Parliament: More powerful than its reputation
- The Federal Reserve and the paranoid style in American Politics
- The Fight With Opus Corp.'s Family
- The German labour market - - pride comes before a fall
- The Globalization of Crime: Organized gangs have become a significant economic power says United Nations report
- The Green Paradox – Ifo President presents new book; Climate problem cannot be solved by states with Green policies going it alone
- The high price of challenging political, business and religious power
- The Home Insulation Conundrum
- The influence of "Animal Spirits" on Business Climate Surveys; Economists provide Queen with belated answer on credit crunch
- The Irish Consumer Sentiment Index continued in decline in May
- The Irish Exchequer deficit grew to €3.7 billion in April
- The Irish Labour Market in Recession - - ESRI Policy Conference
- The Irish Live Register rises 10,500 to 423,400 in July; Unemployment rate rises to 12.2%
- The Irish Live Register rose by 5,800 to a new all-time record in June: 444,900
- The Irish national debt is likely to more than double by 2011
- The Irish National Pensions Reserve Fund Commission says it has no direct investments in Zimbabwe
- The Lisbon Treaty, Ireland and The Skibbereen Eagle
- The Litmus Paper of Quality
- The market economy, ethics and morals - - how values build trust in the economy
- The Mediterranean diet for the Eurozone; Fiscal tightening is expected to be offset by rising exports
- The Mediterranean diet for the Eurozone; Fiscal tightening is expected to be offset by rising exports
- The Newest Cottage Industry
- The Next Big Thing: America's top 50 venture capital backed young companies with potential
- The number of Irish private health insurance subscribers falls by over 40,000 in 2009
- The Office Aquatic
- The Other Trade Center Builder
- The overall tax-to-GDP ratio in the EU27 was 39.3% in 2008; Tax ratio more than one third above the levels recorded in US and Japan
- The Quest for Fitness
- The Quinn Group and a known unknown
- The Truth Behind Florida's Housing Numbers
- The UK is facing a serious risk of recession within months survey of 5,000 companies suggests; Bank of England's MPC "must resist misguided calls for higher interest rates"
- The ups and downs of euro-sterling - Simon Barry, Ulster Bank
- The US Conference Board Leading Index edged up 0.1% in April
- The Vegetable Patch Goes Luxe
- The Vegetable Patch Takes Root
- The Virtual Vacation Home
- The volume of new Irish mortgage lending more than halved in 2009 compared with 2008
- The Warehouse Capital of the Urals
- The Warehouse Capital of the Urals
- The Waste Land - - Bord Snip, Irish Public Spending Transparency and the motto "Never do anything for the first time"
- The Web in Warehouses
- The world needs to rewrite the rules of finance and global business
- The worst of UK recession is over - CBI
- The year 2009 is likely to rank in the top 10 warmest on records from 1850
- The “Great Risk Shift” - - why it may be time to re-think the developed/ emerging-markets distinction
- This Time It’s Different: Eight centuries of financial folly; conceit and money
- Thor May Win Bid for Takashimaya Building
- Thor's Bid Gains for Midtown Site
- Thousands of UK tax exiles may have to pay tax following a court ruling
- Three Irish Bank Economist on ECB Rate Outlook August 2008: AIB's John Beggs says a cut in ECB rates cannot be ruled out in 2009 but it would require a marked fall in inflation down towards 2%
- Three Paying Letters
- Three quarters of funding to find treatments for “neglected diseases” goes to just three big killers
- Thurles firm Dew Valley Foods is to invest €21.8m and create 55 jobs
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- TIC Pain
- Time-Share Tussle
- Times Co. Nears Deal On Building
- Times Square May Get Aquarium
- Tipperary Institute team wins Irish Student Enterprise Competition; e-Skills week at 'Smart futures' seminar launched to encourage students to pursue ICT careers
- Tips on Insuring Residential Construction
- Tishman Faces Office Downturn
- Tishman Poised for Paris Deal
- Tishman Saves D.C. Properties
- Tishman Venture Gives Up Stuyvesant Project
- Today is a Public Holiday in the Republic of Ireland
- Toledo Tries to Shake Detroit's Shadow
- Toll Brothers Building Revenue Falls
- Toll Brothers Plans Housing Sale
- Toll Brothers Posts Revenue Decline
- Toll Brothers Revenue Drops 51%
- Toll Brothers Sales Sink to New Low
- Toll Brothers Swings to Loss
- Toll Says Home Buyers Tiptoe Back
- Toll Says Housing Woes to Continue
- Too Many Malls, Too Few Tenants
- Top 400 US individual taxpayers got 1.59% of household income in 2007 up from 0.5% in 1993; Average tax rate fell from 29.3% to 16.6%
- Top bond fund manger Bill Gross says to end "this deflationary delevering and mini-depression" -- stop the ongoing decline in asset prices
- Top European Central Bank and Federal Reserve policymakers issue warnings on inflation; Bush calls for stronger dollar
- Top European industrialists warn about bank lending restrictions on their SME suppliers
- Top hedge fund manger says credit crisis far from over; ``We're only about a third of the way through the writedowns''
- Top name Irish real estate agent Lisney asks staff to agree 10% pay cut
- Top UBS banker detained by US in tax evasion probe
- Top US bond fund manger Bill Gross urges 'President' Obama to double budget deficit to $1 trillion; Jolt of $500 billion in additional spending needed
- Top US hedge fund managers plot killings from euro woes at "idea dinner" in Manhattan
- Total Produce reports H1 2008 pre-tax profits of €22m for the first half of 2008 - up 13%
- Total Produce reports pre-tax profits fall by 2.3% to €24.3m in H1 2009
- Total Produce to acquire 60% of two Dutch fresh produce companies
- Total wealth of all Irish households fell by almost €50 billion in 2007 - an average drop of more than €32,000 per household; Indebtedness of average household exceeds €128,000
- Tower Embodies Dubai's Goals
- Toyota announces production halt of 11 days; US car sales in 2008 were lowest since 1992
- Toyota Looks to Boost Homes Unit
- Toyota overtook General Motors in first quarter 2008 as world's biggest carmaker
- Trade dependence and economic-political vulnerability vary greatly among the BRIC economies
- Trade surplus up in December; Irish exports, which are dominated by US companies, have remained relatively resilient so far
- Trading Houses Hasn't Made Me Wealthy
- Trading in KBC bank shares suspended; Rumours in Belgium of impending third State rescue
- Trading on the Future
- Treasury Hires Morgan Stanley
- Treasury Holdings gets planning permission for Ballymun Town Centre in north Dublin
- Treasury Pressures Mortgage Firms
- Treasurys Gain, and Bonds Feel Pain
- Trees That Stand Up to Storms
- Tremors Just Below. North Lake Tahoe Real Estate
- Trend from allocation to equities by European pension funds continues
- Tribal Casino Rules Revisited
- Tribal-Casino Loans Tested by Ruling
- Tribeca Cos. Snags S.F. Apartments
- Trichet announces ECB to purchase €60 billion of covered bonds; Provide banks unlimited funds for up to 12 months
- Trichet announces scale back in ECB's emergency financing operations; "Not signaling anything" on interest rate changes - - "absolutely nothing"
- Trichet as chairman of the Group of 10 central banks says policy makers see first signs of an economic recovery
- Trichet calls for "quantum leap" on Eurozone economic governance
- Trichet says world economy still heading for a "very significant market correction"
- Trichet says "2% is not the lowest level" but "zero interest rates is not something we think is appropriate"; Rate cut of 0.5% in March likely
- Trichet says "no bias" on future rate hikes following ECB rise to 4.25%; Sweden raises benchmark to 4.5%; Iceland keeps rate on hold at 15.5%
- Trichet says 2010 "could be the year of a moderate recovery"; IMF to forecast deeper recession with heavier slump in Eurozone
- Trichet says ECB "permanently on...alert...capable of taking...decisions even if ...unconventional" in response to Greek debt crisis contagion
- Trichet says ECB could cut benchmark rate further; Policy on non-standard measures will be announced in May
- Trichet says ECB wasn't pressured into buying government bonds; Council decision was not unanimous
- Trichet says ECB will begin purchase of €60 billion of covered bonds from next week
- Trichet says ECB will continue to provide liquidity to Eurozone banks at "very favorable conditions"
- Trichet says European policymakers must not tear up the rule book when launching emergency economic rescue packages
- Trichet says Eurozone bank lending survey will show slight lower net tightening; Economic data point to a weakening of real GDP growth in mid-2008
- Trichet says Eurozone bank lending survey will show slight lower net tightening; Economic data point to a weakening of real GDP growth in mid-2008
- Trichet says Eurozone faces "extraordinarily high degree of uncertainty"; Interest rate cuts may be made in coming months but timing is for bluffers
- Trichet says Eurozone recovery will be "uneven"; Return to "business as usual...would be absolutely plain wrong"
- Trichet says Eurozone's financial system under severe strain; Cost of protecting against default on bank debt soars to record in Europe
- Trichet says further cutting of interest rates is not necessarily the best path to recovery; Expected May cut to 1% may be floor for ECB
- Trichet says global economy continues to recover; Central bankers review progress on banking supervision
- Trichet says he does not expect Greece to default; Yield spread on Greek bonds over German bunds rises to 4.48%
- Trichet says he does not expect Greece to default; Yield spread on Greek bonds over German bunds rises to 4.48%
- Trichet says inflation will remain ``high'' for some time signalling no early ECB interest rate cut
- Trichet says Irish economy faces "severe challenges" in Dublin speech
- Trichet says need for a quantum leap in governance of Eurozone
- Trichet says no immediate plans to increase asset-purchase plan or cut interest rates further; Eurozone growth to resume from mid-2010
- Trichet says no rate cut in February; Signals reluctance to follow the Fed to zero
- Trichet says past French and German governments set a poor fiscal example in the Eurozone
- Trichet says price stability will be delivered in 2010; Outlines new measures applying to collateral provided by banks in respect of ECB loans
- Trichet says series of ECB rate hikes not planned after "possible" rise on July 3rd
- Trichet says still premature to declare global financial crisis over; Strauss-Kahn says too early for exit from accommodative policies - - old growth model dead
- Trichet says world economy as a whole is feeling adverse effects of financial turmoil; Rate cut in December likely
- Trichet says world may be approaching a "turning point"
- Trichet signals ECB interest rate cut next week; Benchmark rate may fall to 3.25%
- Trichet signals more rate cuts to combat severe recession
- Trichet warns of danger of "being trapped" at very low interest rate levels; Eurozone demand to fall for "protracted period of time”
- Trichet warns of risk of inflation ``exploding'' ; Eurozone producer/wholesale prices surged to a record annual rate of 7.1% in May
- Trichet warns on "financial gambling"; Says banks should return to “traditional role of providing a service to the real economy”
- Trinity economics professor Honohan to be governor of Irish Central Bank - - first change from insider in 66 years
- Trintech reports reduced quarterly loss
- Trips abroad by Irish residents in first four months of 2009 down by only 10.5% despite recession
- Trips by overseas resident to Ireland down 18.5% in March
- Trips by overseas visitors to Ireland fell 3% in the year to June: Numbers from the US dropped 10% and UK visitors fell 8%
- Trips to Ireland down 110,400 in January - - 26%
- Trips to Ireland down 12% in November 2008
- Trips to Ireland from Great Britain up 26% in March 2008
- Tropicana Makes Bankruptcy Filing
- Tropicana to Put Up Casino for Auction
- Troubled N.Y. Office Tower Finds Buyer
- Troubles Loom for Las Vegas Resort
- Trump Asserts Link to Scotland
- Trump Drops Casino-Control Bid
- Trump Explains How He Values His Empire
- Trump Feud Faces a Court Threat
- Trump Files Suit Against Lenders
- Trump to Sell Atlantic City Casino
- Trumping Bondholders?
- Trust in government and business in Ireland is the lowest in Europe according to pan-European survey
- Trust Not Enough for Integrity Bank
- Trying to Track Mortgage Mess
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- Tullow announces positive results from latest drilling offshore Ghana
- Tullow Oil and PetroNeft Resources report negative oil drilling results in India and Western Siberia
- Tullow Oil announces discovery in Ngassa-2 exploration well in Uganda
- Tullow Oil announces good news from Ghana
- Tullow Oil announces successful drilling results in Ghana and Uganda
- Tullow Oil doubles H1 pre-tax profit to £187.3m with help of surging energy prices
- Tullow Oil reports profit before tax increased 330% in 2008 to £226 million
- Tullow Oil says 2008 remains very positive with a programme of over 25 exploration wells to drill by year-end coupled with strong oil and gas pricing
- Tullow Oil says it has performed exceptionally well over the first half of 2008
- Tullow Oil sells interest in North Sea oil field to unit of Italian energy company Eni
- Tullow reports H1 2009 revenues down on 2008 due to combination of lower oil prices and volumes
- Tumult Besets Trump Projects
- Twin Tower Footprints Take Shape
- Two Alternatives to Foreclosure
- Two European bankers charged in US with tax fraud
- Two ministers announce United Technologies to create "ground-breaking" energy and security joint research centre at UCC; 87 new Irish jobs over 4 years
- Two More Builders Buckle
- Two NBA All-Stars Cut House Prices
- Two out of every three US companies paid no federal income taxes from 1998 through 2005; Among foreign corporations 68% did not pay taxes during the period
- Two-thirds of Irish people believe worst of economic crisis to come; Two-thirds of Europe's homeowners have no mortgages
- Two-thirds of Irish women were active in workforce in 2007 - - one of the most gender-segregated workplaces in EU
- Tycoon Finds Opportunity in China Property Slump
- Tycoon Ng Teng Fong dies
- Tycoon's Fall Is a Warning
- U.K. Aims to Ease Pain in Housing
- U.K. Aims to Revive Housing Market
- U.K. Commercial Woes Mount
- U.K. Home Buyers Remain Wary
- U.K. Housing Market Turns Up
- U.K. Outlook Gets Darker
- U.K. Property Firms Retrench
- U.K. Property Firms Reveal Details
- U.K. REIT Plans IPO
- U.K. Rental Market Emerges From Crunch
- U.K.'s Buy-to-Let Market Struggles
- U.K.'s Economic Slump Deepens
- U.K.'s Housing Lures Rich Indians
- U.K.'s Liberty Forges On
- U.S. Bolsters Fannie, Freddie
- U.S. Home Prices Lure Foreigners
- U.S. Investors Abandon Europe
- U.S. Mulls Future of Fannie, Freddie
- U.S. Now a Renters' Market
- U.S. Office Vacancies Hit 15.2% -- and Rising
- U.S. Rethinks Roles of Fannie, Freddie
- U.S. Wants Building Tied to Iran
- U.S., Realtors Settle Antitrust Case
- U.S., States Probe Loan Broker
- UBS - - Switzerland’s biggest bank - - to cut 8,700 jobs after reporting a loss and outflows of client funds in the first quarter
- UBS - Switzerland’s largest bank - reports fourth-quarter loss of 8.1 billion Swiss francs: €5.4 billion
- UBS in Deal for London Development
- UBS offloads subprime related securities for $15 billion at a loss of $7 billion
- UBS to raise €8.9 billion in rights issue at 31% discount to Wednesday's closing share price
- UCC research laboratory Tyndall partnering with UK telco BT to research advanced optical networks
- UCD spin-out BiancaMed raises additional €6 million funding in Europe
- UK annual Consumer Price Inflation rose to 4.7% in August
- UK bankers' pay increased by £12bn per year in decade to 2008 -- ex-share allocations
- UK Budget 2009: Chancellor says British economy to start growing again "towards the end of this year"; Borrowing to rise to 12.4% of GDP
- UK Budget: VAT to rise to 20%; Ex-health, budgets of government departments to be cut 25% in real terms in 4 years
- UK business confidence in the banking, finance and insurance sector drops to an all-time low; UK house prices had the biggest annual fall since at least 2002
- UK Chancellor announces new business-government forum on tax to stem exodus of British companies to low tax Ireland
- UK Chancellor of the Exchequer in Budget statement cut projected borrowing forecasts in coming years and lowered growth forecasts for 2011
- UK commercial property capital growth in year to March was 7.6% - - the highest since June 2007
- UK commercial property capital growth reaches 15-year high in November
- UK commercial property capital values fall by record levels in October
- UK commercial property capital values fall continues
- UK commercial property development activity rose in October at sharpest pace since July 2007
- UK commercial property market is suffering its worst slump on record; Price correction from market top to bottom of 50% forecast
- UK commercial property recovery continues to soften
- UK commercial property returns for 2008 look set to surpass landmark losses recorded in 1990 on real returns basis
- UK commercial property shows first capital growth in 26 months
- UK commercial property values back to December 2008 levels but market is slowing; European market rose 15% in Q2 2010 compared with first quarter
- UK consumer confidence fell again in May; Permanent staff placements declined while demand for temps continued to rise
- UK consumer confidence fell in in May to an 18-year low - the lowest level since Margaret Thatcher was ejected from office in 1990
- UK consumer confidence fell in June to the lowest level since the London poll tax riots that preceded Margaret Thatcher's ouster in 1990
- UK consumer confidence unexpectedly rose for the second straight month in March
- UK Consumer Price Index annual inflation jumped to 3% in April
- UK consumer price inflation rose 3.3% in May - the highest since at least 1997
- UK consumer prices annual inflation rose to 5.2% in September; Retail sales fell 1.5% in month
- UK consumer prices rose to 3.8% annual rate in the year to June
- UK consumers expect inflation to reach double the Bank of England's target of 2% supporting the case for policymakers to consider raising interest rates
- UK cuts VAT rate to 15%; Gormley says action must be taken to "stem flow of shoppers across the border" with Northern Ireland
- UK economic output grew in April and May
- UK economy "scarcely" grew during the three months to May and could slow still further
- UK economy exited from its worst recession since 1945 in Q4 2009 according to economic think-tank; Full year slump worst since 1921
- UK economy exited recession in the fourth quarterly of 2009 but quarterly growth rate of 0.1% was very weak
- UK economy grew at its weakest pace in three years in the first quarter of 2008
- UK economy in recession; Forecast to contract for three further quarters; Weak recovery expected in 2010
- UK economy shrank 0.5% in third quarter - country on course for first recession since 1991
- UK export-led economic recovery expected in 2011; Outlook for the rest of 2010 remains poor
- UK faces a five year jobs deficit if economic growth slightly undershoots official forecasts
- UK factory production fell in May for the first time in three months; National Institute of Economic and Social Research retracts claim recession ended in March
- UK factory production rose more than five times as fast as expected in March
- UK financial regulator proposes global tax to deflate "swollen" financial sector
- UK financial regulator rejects avalanche of criticism on proposal to curb “swollen” financial sector
- UK Financial Services Authority requests arrest of eight bank workers on suspicion of insider trading
- UK firm Forward Emphasis to create 100 new outsourcing jobs in Donegal over the next three years
- UK fiscal tightening should not choke off the recovery
- UK GDP contracted by 1.6% in the fourth quarter of 2008 - - biggest drop since 1980
- UK GDP fell to zero in the Second Quarter of 2008; Annual growth at 1.4% - the weakest since 1992
- UK GDP growth in first quarter of 2010 revised up to 0.3%
- UK GDP growth will struggle to reach 1% in 2010; Low exchange rate will rebalance the economy in subsequent years
- UK GDP in Q2 2009 revised up slightly to 0.7% contraction; Consumer Confidence Index steady in August for the third month in a row
- UK GDP in Q4 2008 fell 1.5% -- confirming recession following third quarter contraction
- UK GDP increased 0.2% in first quarter of 2010; Output impacted by snow disruption
- UK government announces initial plans for £6.2bn in spending cuts - - 10% of the required cut of £60bn in the structural deficit
- UK government announces initial plans for £6.2bn in spending cuts - - 10% of the required cut of £60bn in the structural deficit
- UK government controlled banks Lloyds and RBS to get new £31.3bn bailout
- UK government to invest £50 billion to shore up the UK banking system; Bank of England will make at least £200 billion available to banks; State guarantee of £250 billion
- UK had a €3.3 billion budget surplus in January - - the lowest in 14 years
- UK home sales fall to lowest level since at least 1978; Retail sales drop for two straight months for the first time since at least 1995
- UK home sales fell in September to the lowest level in at least 30 years; UK may build less than 100,000 new housing units in 2009
- UK home sales fell in September to the lowest level in at least 30 years; UK may build less than 100,000 new housing units in 2009
- UK homes sales at lowest in 30 years
- UK house prices fell at the fastest annual rate in almost two decades in August
- UK house prices fell at the fastest rate in at least 25 years in October
- UK house prices fell by the most in at least 17 years in October
- UK house prices fell for the eight straight month in May because of a "buyers strike"
- UK house prices fell in May by the most in at least 17 years
- UK house prices fell the most in 15 years in May
- UK house prices fell the most in July since 1991; Consumer Confidence tumbled to the lowest since 1974 signalling that UK economy is moving towards a recession
- UK house prices in biggest annual fall since at least 1991 - down 12.4%
- UK house prices not set to reach 2007 peaks for at least five years
- UK housing activity lowest since 1978; Retail sales fall in June
- UK housing market sentiment is the worst for 30 years; Falling house prices deterring both sellers and buyers; Mortgage rates rise
- UK housing slump eased in March
- UK industrial production fell in three months to May 2008
- UK industrial production posted its first monthly increase for 14 months in April
- UK Labour Market Outlook says 45% of UK companies not planning to recruit graduates and school leavers this summer
- UK launches big operation against insider dealing; Almost one-third of company announcements preceded by abnormal share activity
- UK law firm earns £22m advising Treasury on bank bailouts; Irish law firm earns €3.8m for similar work
- UK manufacturing began 2009 with output, new orders and employment continuing to drop at substantial rates
- UK manufacturing downturn continued in August
- UK manufacturing hit by combination of slower output growth, declining orders and rising inflationary pressures in April
- UK manufacturing output increased in July; German industrial production fell
- UK manufacturing output new orders and employment all fell at record rates in September
- UK manufacturing PMI dipped below rising level in August despite gains in output and new orders
- UK Manufacturing PMI falls to lowest level since 2001
- UK manufacturing PMI fell to its lowest level in July since December 1998
- UK manufacturing PMI plunged to record low in November as new order volumes collapsed
- UK manufacturing production expanded for first time in fifteen months in June
- UK manufacturing recovery continued in November but at a slower pace; Growth rebound may be nearing peak
- UK manufacturing sector remained weak in March but PMI rose to highest level since October
- UK mortgage lending slowed for the third straight month in May; However approvals have risen signalling improving outlook
- UK mortgages approved for house purchases tumbled in year to June from 114,000 to 36,000
- UK moves closer to recession as house prices fall by the most since 1992 and manufacturing contracts
- UK Office for Budget Responsibility cuts economic growth forecasts
- UK on brink of leaving recession but recovery is not very evident
- UK Pre-Budget Report: GDP to contract 4.75% in 2009 - - worst in peacetime since 1930s; Tax on bankers' bonuses proposed
- UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown promises to cut corporation tax to prevent an exodus of British companies to low tax Ireland and Switzerland
- UK producer prices increased in May at the fastest pace since 1986
- UK producer prices rose 7.5% in year to April - the fastest annual rate since at least 1986
- UK professions dominated by the wealthy; Nepotism and networking restricts access to top jobs according to official report
- UK recovery reliant on a roaring trade with the tiger economies; Decade of painful readjustment to follow decade of debt
- UK research shows company directors and lawyers in south-east England have best chance to reach pension age
- UK retail sales fell in March at fastest pace since January 2007
- UK retail sales slow as the household goods sector weakens
- UK retail sales surged in May - boosted by the warmest May ever but public finances struck a record deficit of £11 billion sterling
- UK retail sales tumbled in June to record the biggest monthly drop for 22 years.
- UK Service Activity remained unchanged in July at almost seven-year low: Record decline in new business further depresses services output
- UK Sex and Power report says women in top positions of power and influence facing trend of reversal or stalled progress
- UK tops "Quality of Death" Index; Ireland gets a 4th ranking
- UK unemployment jumped in June at the highest level since 1992
- UK unemployment jumped in June at the highest level since 1992
- UK unemployment rate rises to 7.2%; Unemployment at 2.26 million in the three months to April 2009; Up 605,000 from a year earlier
- UK unemployment rose at the fastest rate since at least 1971 in February; Total unemployment rises above 2 million for first time since 1997
- UK unemployment rose in May; Average Earnings Index - including bonuses - fell to 3.8%
- UK was top global arms exporter in 2007
- UK's biggest mortgage lender HBOS fired manger who warned of excessive risk in 2005; Paul Moore was then subjected to a gagging order
- UK's consumer inflation rate had biggest drop in at least 11 years in October
- UK's economy grew only 0.2% in the second quarter matching the slowest pace since 2001
- UK's support for banks during the global financial crisis has reached £850 billion; In 2009-2010, lending to businesses not likely to meet targets
- UK's unemployment rate jumps to eight-year high of 5.7%
- UK’s private services economy in gloomy state
- Ulster Bank announces €1 billion support package for Irish business
- Ulster Bank Focus on Markets Report: Fed and Bank of England to make two further rate cuts in 2008; European Central Bank likely to keep benchmark rate on hold at 4%
- Ulster Bank Focus on Markets Report: Long-term downtrend in US dollar is drawing to a close
- Ulster Bank Ireland and First Active not to participate in Irish State banking guarantee scheme
- Ulster Bank launches mortgage with 5 year protection against falling house prices of up to 15%
- Ulster Bank lowers forecast of Irish economic growth in 2008 to 0.5%; ECB to keep benchmark rate on hold at 4%
- Ulster Bank moves to block sale of half of developer Liam Carroll's stake in Greencore
- Ulster Bank moves to block sale of half of developer Liam Carroll's stake in Greencore
- Ulster Bank Northern Ireland PMI shows reductions in business activity and new work for the fourteenth successive month in January
- Ulster Bank Northern Ireland PMI: Record falls in activity and new orders during June, while input cost inflation hit survey high
- Ulster Bank reports loss of £368m for 2009; Parent bank Royal Bank of Scotland reports loss of £3.6bn
- Ulster Bank to cut 750 jobs; First Active to cease trading
- UN calls for G-20 support of $1 trillion stimulus package for developing countries to prevent political instability/social unrest
- UN climate change chief Yvo de Boer is poached by accountants KPMG; "the crying Dutchman" can now cry all the way to the bank
- UN satellite atlas shows how climate change, population growth and development have significantly altered Africa over the past 30 years
- UN says rising industrialized countries emissions underscore urgent need for political action on climate change at Poznan meeting
- Underlying Concerns in CMBS
- Underlying growth in UK retail sales rises 0.7%
- Unemployment in Germany fell slightly in August
- Unfinished Projects Weigh on Banks
- Union Station Lures a Kaiser Unit
- Unit labour costs in OECD countries continued to rise in fourth quarter of 2008
- United Drug acquires US company Sharp Corporation for $99 million
- United Drug reports annual pre-tax profits of €70.5m - up 13%
- United Drug reports pre-tax profits increased by €33.3 million in the six months to 31 March 2008
- United Drug reports profit fall in six months to March 31, 2009
- United Drug says earnings for the year to September to show double digit growth; Value of medicines consumed in the Republic continues to grow strongly
- United Drug says it expects to deliver another year of double-digit profit and earnings growth
- United Nations report says development aid from 22 rich donor countries averaged only 0.28% of their national incomes in 2007
- United States charges billionaire hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam with securities fraud crimes
- United States has a quarter of the world’s prisoners; Less than 100 murders in New York City in 2007 where victims were strangers to their assailants
- United States: Say goodbye to job recession...and hello to census effect; Solid rebound after aggressive cuts - - despite only moderate economic growth
- Universities in the European Union seriously lag their US counterparts; America accounts for 40% of global spending on higher education
- University Upgrades Boost Madison's Commercial Sector
- Up to 1,300 Polish people leaving Ireland every week
- Up to 40,000 Irish first-time house buyers face negative equity
- Up to 600 Irish Central Bank staff strike as fears of redundancy in private sector hit 10-year high - - over 600 job losses in 2 days
- Up to 65,400 workers in the Irish Construction Industry will lose their jobs by the end of 2009 according to report; 20,600 new jobs will be created in other areas of construction
- Upping Ante for New York 'Racino'
- Ups and Downs of the Gallery Life
- Urgent need to reform Irish pension rules says IBEC; Ministerial memo says schemes on verge of collapse
- US current-account deficit rises to $109.0bn in first quarter of 2010
- US durable goods orders fell in June
- US "bad bank" could cost as much as $4 trillion - - the equivalent of nearly 1/3 of US gross domestic product
- US $700bn financial bailout will raise national debt to more than 70% of GDP - - highest since 1954; Widely held Lehman bonds may result in losses of $110bn
- US 2009 budget deficit expected to be 11.2% of GDP; 10-year deficit at $9.05 trillion; National debt to rise from 33% of GDP in 2001 to 68% in 2019
- US added 431,000 jobs in May with 411,000 temps working on Census 2010; Private-sector job creation plunged to 41,000 after 218,000 jobs in April
- US agrees new rescue plan for insurance giant AIG; Insurer reports $61.7 billion Q4 2008r loss - - the biggest in US corporate history
- US and Asian investors getting cold feet on lending to Europe
- US and China - - world's biggest polluters -- promise to address global climate change
- US announces $250 billion bank capital support plan
- US announces bailout of mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae
- US bank lending fell in 2009 at the highest rate since 1942
- US bank Wachovia reports a net loss in the second quarter of 2008 of $8.9 billion
- US banking group Citigroup reports fourth straight quarterly loss
- US bankruptcy lawyers earning more than $1,000 per hour - - raking in a bonanza from the Great Recession
- US banks tighten loan standards; Car industry has worst month since 1945 -adjusted for population; EUR/USD rate of 1.15 forecast by end 2008
- US banks will collect record $38.5bn in overdraft fees in 2009 - - mainly from customers with credit problems
- US bond fund manager executive says banking crises in developed countries take between four and five years to resolve; JPMorgan Chase says since the beginning of July, trading conditions in the mortgage market “had substantially deteriorated"
- US bucks slowdown in Global Productivity; After layoffs productivity of remaining workers and firms is strengthening
- US budget deficit hit a record $1.4 trillion in year to September 2009; Deficit was more than treble 2008 level at 9.9% of GDP - - the highest peacetime level since 1920
- US budget outlook is "bleak"; Poll shows 51% of Americans believe Obama has paid "too little attention" to economy
- US business economists say recession's grip on the economy appears to be easing
- US business economists' survey says recession is abating
- US Chamber of Commerce in Ireland says impact of Obama’s proposed tax changes unknown; Side-steps issue of surge in Irish profits unrelated to economic activity
- US commercial property values have fallen by -21.3% over the first three quarters of 2009
- US commercial real estate suffered worst annual capital return in 2009 since at least 1978; Down 23.9% compared with Ireland - - the world's worst performer which dipped 28.9%
- US company Alcon to announce plans to add 186 new jobs at its Cork city plant
- US computer gaming company Electronic Arts to create 200 jobs in Galway; US healthcare products firm Covidien may shed 200 jobs in Tullamore
- US computer giant Dell to cut 250 Irish jobs
- US Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index fell further in April
- US Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index declined to new all-time low in December - - the lowest level since records began in 1967
- US Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index fell in January and continues to be at a historic low
- US Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index fell in June after months of strong gains
- US Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index fell in May to 16-year low
- US Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index fell to 16-year low in June
- US Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index holds steady in July
- US Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index improves moderately in November; Present situation weakens
- US Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index plunged in February to another all-time low - - Index began in 1967
- US Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index plunges to lowest in at least 41 years in October
- US Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index posted a slight gain in September; Bush says "real prospect of economic hardship for millions of Americans"
- US Conference Board Leading Index fell sharply in October
- US Conference Board's Leading Index fell 0.1% in June
- US Congress will vote Monday on revised $700 billion rescue deal for Wall Street
- US construction spending fell during July; US manufacturing activity contracted slightly in August
- US construction spending fell in May; US home sales contract signings slightly increased
- US consumer confidence fell sharply in February to the lowest level in 10 months
- US Consumer Confidence Index edged up slightly in November
- US Consumer Confidence Index falls again in July on worries about the jobs market
- US Consumer Confidence Index fell again in July
- US Consumer Confidence Index fell in October for second straight month on bleak jobs news
- US Consumer Confidence Index fell sharply in June
- US Consumer Confidence Index improved slightly in January
- US Consumer Confidence Index in surprise dip in September
- US Consumer Confidence Index increased sharply in April
- US Consumer Confidence Index increases in May
- US Consumer Confidence Index rebounded in August
- US Consumer Confidence Index rebounded in March
- US Consumer Confidence Index rises in April
- US Consumer Confidence Index rises strongly in May
- US consumer confidence rose slightly in January; JPMorgan Chase earned $11.7 billion last year - - more than double its profit in 2008
- US consumer confidence unexpectedly rose in July from the lowest level since 1980
- US Consumer Price Index fell in year to May to lowest since 1950; US current account deficit falls to lowest since 2001 - - down to 2.9% of GDP
- US Consumer Price Index rises to 5% in year to June - the highest rate since May 1991; Monthly rise of 1.1% second-largest monthly rise since June 1982
- US consumer price inflation remained subdued in April; "Core" inflation increased at only a 1.2% annual rate in past 3 months
- US consumer prices fell in August for the first time in nearly two years
- US consumer prices fell the most since 1947 in November; Home construction fell at sharpest rate in 24 years
- US consumer prices rose in 2008 at the slowest pace since 1954
- US consumer prices rose sharply in May; annual inflation rate rises to 4.2%
- US consumer spending fell in real terms in July; Stocks slide
- US consumer spending increased in October; Weekly jobless benefit claims fell last week; Durable goods orders dipped again
- US consumer spending tumbled 0.5% in September; Savings rate was 3.3%
- US Consumer Spending: Slow growth - - not no growth - - ahead
- US consumers are cutting debt via default not thrift
- US consumers cut spending in September and lifted savings in response to the financial crisis
- US consumers cut their spending during December and increased savings
- US consumers spending increased in May
- US court says Elan breached agreement with Tysabri partner Biogen Idec
- US credit rating agencies that rubber-stamped securities converted from subprime junk mortgages had serious conflicts of interest - Securities and Exchange Commission
- US current-account deficit fell to $419.9 billion in 2009 - - the smallest deficit since 2001 and down from $706.1 billion in 2008
- US data signals recession as spending in consumer and capital sectors sagged in October; Four-week average of new jobless claims highest since 1983
- US dollar falls from six-month high against the Euro; German recession fears had triggered slide in the Eurozone currency
- US dollar falls to record low against Euro; Oil price falls to $137 in New York and London
- US dollar is now closest to its medium-term equilibrium value in a decade; Euro overvalued and China's Renminbi substantially undervalued says IMF policymaker
- US drug giants Merck and Schering-Plough to merge; 15% of joint payroll to be cut - - mainly outside the US
- US durable goods data stronger than expected in June; New home sales fall less than expected
- US durable goods orders fell in August; US home sales rose
- US durable goods orders plunged 4.5% in August - largest fall since January; Weekly initial jobless claims rise 32,000 to 493,000
- US durable goods orders rose in December: New jobless benefit claims fell slightly last week
- US durable goods orders rose in September - boosted by demand for aircraft
- US economic activity increased sharply in January - - national growth back to July 2007 level
- US Economic Conundrum: American consumers not spending enough; Spending too much
- US economic data cheers investors; Wall Street banks reap big profits from trading with the Federal Reserve
- US economic data points to recession: New orders for manufactured goods fell; Weekly jobless claims rose
- US Economic Forecast: A faster recovery
- US economic growth in 2010-11 is forecast to be moderate but sustainable; Optimism among CEOs of big companies is rising
- US economic recovery closer but risks persist as broad measure of US unemployment is at a record post 1945 high of 15.8%
- US economic recovery is building momentum; Daunting challenge of the so-called "job gap"
- US economist calls for pre-emptive bubble avoidance in contrast with the Greenspan-Bernanke reactive post-bubble cleanup approach
- US economists differ on when the jobs recession will end; General Electric's chief expects second economic-stimulus package
- US economists foresee protracted recovery; Output gap closure may take up to six years
- US economists oppose new stimulus despite expectations of continued severe job losses
- US economists say recession is over: Majority in survey want Bernanke reappointed
- US Economy : American Nobel Laureate says if people would tolerate it - the economy would pop right back without help from politicians
- US economy and Depression angst
- US Economy and New Normal: US GDP grew 3.4% annually in 1960-2007; Forecast growth to average 2.6% over next 10 years
- US economy grew at an annual rate of 2.8% in the second quarter - down from initial estimate of 3.3%
- US Economy Growth Scare: Still on track for moderate, sustainable growth
- US economy is improving and Cowen claims €60 million worth of new export orders won during his St. Patrick's Day American trip
- US economy is recovering says IMF but it is "less optimistic than the authorities about the path of growth"
- US economy likely to perform poorly over new decade; Bernanke says regulatory failure, not lax monetary policy, caused housing bubble/ financial crisis
- US Economy loses 524,000 Jobs in December; The Economy is in a Depression
- US economy not at risk of double-dip recession; Moderate, sustainable expansion will emerge
- US economy on moderate but solid recovery path; Jobless rate’s decline will remain “painfully” slow
- US economy remained generally weak in late April and May; Fed says Americans “were pinched by rising energy and food prices”; Oil price jumps $5 in New York Wednesday to over $136
- US economy still in for a slow recovery with only a modest reduction in levels of joblessness
- US Economy to stall at year-end as `Perfect Storm Returns'
- US Economy: Facing a wobble, a double-dip recession or fragile long, painful process of recovery?
- US Economy: Bernanke says economic outlook is "unusually uncertain"
- US Economy: Double-dip discounted
- US Economy: Federal Reserve cuts growth forecast; White House says 2009 $787bn stimulus program has saved or created 2.5 to 3.6m jobs
- US Economy: Morgan Stanley points to temporary upside risks but still a slow recovery
- US Economy: Recession still has time to run but the stock market is headed north
- US Economy: Recovery will continue at sluggish pace; "It won't feel like one to most"
- US Economy: V-shaped recovery unlikely: Recession has further to go; Prolonged convalescence likely
- US Economy: Withdrawal of fiscal and monetary supports will be a challenge during a a slower-than-normal economic recovery
- US electronics firm Tyco Sensormatic to move over 200 jobs from Cork to low-cost overseas location
- US employment increased by 162,000 in March; 44.1% of unemployed were jobless for more than six months - - the highest level since at least 1948
- US employment prospects and policies to improve them; Recovery will not be jobless but gains will be tepid
- US Employment Trends Index rose in January for the fifth consecutive month; Trend points to the resumption of jobs growth soon
- US existing home sales fall again in January; Distressed sales account for 45% of market
- US existing home sales rose 11% in third quarter boosted by tax credit for first- time buyers; Distressed sales accounted for 30% of all transactions
- US existing-home sales fell in August as tight mortgage credit curtailed activity; Median price in biggest annual drop for at least 40 years
- US existing-home sales fell in March - down 19.3% in year; Realtors warn Fed should be extra careful about further rate cuts to prevent rise in mortgage rates
- US existing-home sales rose again in April boosted by final month of first-time-buyer tax credit; Foreclosure sales accounted for 33% of the total
- US existing-home sales rose in July from a 10-year low as falling prices helped stabilise demand and the number of homes for sale jumped to a record
- US existing-home sales rose unexpectedly in December as foreclosures surged; National price decline biggest since 1930's
- US existing-home sales surged in July - - boosted by foreclosures and tax credits
- US factory orders plunged in November; Service activity contracted in December and pending home sales fell
- US Fed keeps rates at record lows; Assessment on recovery subdued; Index of financial conditions halfway back to 2008 post-Lehman crisis lows
- US Federal Reserve chairman Bernanke says both the United States and other major countries are poised for growth
- US Federal Reserve cuts its key federal funds rate by 0.5% to 1% in response to fears of a severe recession
- US Federal Reserve keeps benchmark Federal funds rate on hold at 2%
- US Federal Reserve keeps its key benchmark federal funds rate at 2%
- US Federal Reserve keeps the benchmark federal funds rate on hold at 2%
- US Federal Reserve reports regional moderation in the pace of economic decline
- US Federal Reserve says the recession is ending
- US Federal Reserve says US GDP will contract 1.3% in 2009; Ifo World Economic Climate Indicator falls further in recent weeks
- US Federal Reserve to keep rates “exceptionally low” for “an extended period” while acknowledging the economy is strengthening
- US financial giants had liabilities to their executives of $40 billion for past years' pay and pensions at end of 2007
- US Financial Reform: 2000-page Dodd-Frank Bill a worthy successor to 34-page Glass-Steagall Act?
- US Financial Reform: 2000-page Dodd-Frank Bill a worthy successor to 34-page Glass-Steagall Act?
- US Financial Reform: Republicans block start of Senate debate
- US Financial Reform: Republicans retreat on implacable opposition in response to Goldman Sachs fraud charge
- US Financial Reform: Wall Street lobbies against derivatives-trading reform with help from Republicans
- US financial stocks suffer worst one-day tumble since 2000; Cumulative finance industry losses from housing bubble forecast at $1 trillion
- US firm Abiomed to open manufacturing facility in Athlone and create 250 jobs
- US firm Abiomed to open manufacturing facility in Athlone and create 250 jobs
- US firm Bausch & Lomb to cut 195 jobs in Waterford; Big 4 accounting firm KPMG to cut 200 jobs and reduce pay
- US firm Cook Medical is to invest €25 million in Limerick and create 200 new jobs over five years
- US firm Microsemi announces plans for 200 new jobs in Ennis
- US firm NN to close manufacturing facility in Kilkenny, Ireland with loss of 70 jobs
- US firm Nypro Ireland to create 150 new jobs in Medical and Personal Care Device manufacturing in Bray
- US firm Progress Software Corporation agrees to buy Irish software company IONA Technologies
- US firm Stream Global Services is to add 400 jobs to its call centre operation in Dublin
- US firm United BioSource Corporation (UBC) opens Dublin office; 20 new project management positions to be created
- US firm Wyeth cuts 150 jobs; Waterford Crystal to cut 280 jobs ending most manufacturing after 61 years
- US forces 9 of America's top banks to agree to public stakes; Dow surges 11% - the biggest one-day gain since 1933
- US foreclosure filings more than doubled in Q2 2008; One in every 171 US households risk losing their homes; One in every 43 Nevada households received foreclosure notice in Q2
- US fourth quarter of 2009 GDP revised up to annualised 5.9% rate
- US fund specialising in investment in distressed companies to make bid for Waterford Wedgwood
- US GDP contracted 5.7% in Q1 2009 - - less than first thought
- US GDP fell at 0.3% annual rate in Q3 2008; Consumer spending plunged at the sharpest rate since 1980 - 28 years ago
- US GDP fell at 1% annual rate in Q2 2009 signalling end to recession is near; Fall in four-consecutive quarters first time since 1947
- US GDP fell at an annual rate of 6.1% in the first quarter of 2009 following slump in Q4 2008 - - weakest six months since 1957-58
- US GDP fell at annual rate of 0.5% in the third quarter down from 2.8% increase in the second quarter
- US GDP fell at annual rate of 3.8% in the fourth quarter of 2008 - - The growth rate is the worst since 1982
- US GDP fell at annual rate of 6.3% in the fourth quarter of 2008; Corporate profits fell 16.5% - - the largest decline since the fourth quarter of 1953
- US GDP grew at 3.5% annualized rate in Q3 2009 after 0.7% dip in Q2
- US GDP grew at annual 0.9% rate in the first quarter revised up from 0.6%
- US GDP in first quarter of 2008 revised up to annual rate of 1%
- US GDP in fourth quarter of 2009 surged to 5.7% annual rate
- US GDP in third quarter of 2009 revised down to annual rate of 2.8%
- US GDP increased at an annual rate of 1.9% in the second quarter of 2008 boosted by exports and the tax rebates provided by the Economic Stimulus Act
- US GDP increased at annualised 3.2% rate in the first quarter of 2010 after increasing 5.6% in the fourth quarter of 2009
- US GDP increased at annualised 3.2% rate in the first quarter of 2010 after increasing 5.6% in the fourth quarter of 2009
- US GDP revised down in first quarter of 2010
- US GM food giant Monsanto and Limerick-based Stokes Bio agree license agreement for gene analysis plant breeding technology
- US government seizes control of AIG; 80% stake for $85 billion loan at LIBOR + 8.5%; US Treasury Secretary forces CEO to resign
- US Gross Domestic Product increased at annual rate of 0.6% in the first quarter of 2008 reflecting an increase in inventories as consumer spending slowed
- US high-tech entrepreneurship: The "get rich or die trying spirit" that brings results
- US home construction fell sharply in October; Consumer prices rose at a moderate pace
- US home construction fell to the lowest level in 17 years in September
- US home construction rose for a third straight month in March; GE reports first-quarter earnings fell 31%
- US home construction subdued in September; Housing completions 39.6% below year before level; Producer prices fall again
- US home construction surged in May; Annual producer prices in biggest fall in 60 years
- US home construction took a bigger-than-expected fall in March
- US home construction unexpectedly rose 3.6% in June; GE, Citi and Bank of America reported second quarter earnings
- US home foreclosures/loan defaults more than doubled in the first quarter - up 112% from the first quarter of 2007; One in every 54 Nevada households received a foreclosure filing during the first quarter
- US home price data through August 2009 shows slowing annual decline; Biggest 12-month drop was in Las Vegas: down 30%
- US home price falls continued to ease in December; Nationally home prices are at levels similar to summer of 2003
- US home prices do not yet show signs of sustained recovery according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices
- US home prices fell 14% in first quarter; Sales of foreclosures and other distressed properties made up about half the market
- US home prices still improving; Average prices at 2003 levels; Las Vegas peak-to-trough fall at -55.4%; Consumer confidence rose in December
- US home resales fell in October; Median price plunged by the most at least since 1968 - forty years ago
- US home resales rose in September driven by foreclosures; The median price dropped 9%
- US House approves 90% tax on bonuses; AIG sues US government on return of $306 million related to tax haven dealings
- US House passes Obama economic stimulus plan without single Republican vote and with 11 Democrat defections
- US House to vote on Obama's $816 billion economic stimulus package; Plan would provide a “substantial” boost to the economy
- US households plan to spend average of $390 on Christmas gifts this year - - compares with $990 in Ireland
- US housing contracts to buy previously second-hand homes rose slightly in December after a record plunge
- US housing market may take years to recover; Total homeowner equity has plunged to its lowest level since 1985
- US housing starts and permits fell in February because of severe weather
- US housing starts fell 6.2% in August; Lowest in 17 years - down 33.1% from August 2007
- US housing starts fell for a sixth time in a row during December; Weekly new claims for unemployment benefit jumped to 27-year high
- US housing starts fell more than expected in December because of bad weather; Permits for future construction surged
- US housing starts plunged 16.8% in January to 466,000 units annual rate; Starts down 56.2% on January 2008
- US housing starts plunged in May; Industrial production strengthened and producer prices remained subdued
- US housing starts rose 8.2% in April but are down 30.6% in the 12-month period
- US housing starts rose at a moderate pace in August; New jobless benefits claims fell last week
- US housing starts rose in January to a higher level than expected with the help of a homebuyer tax credit
- US housing starts rose in June boosted by New York City's building code but single-family home starts fell to the slowest pace in 17 years
- US housing starts unexpectedly dropped in April
- US housing starts, consumer prices and current account deficit rise
- US import cargo volume at nation’s major retail container ports rise in December for first time in 30 months
- US in bailout of financial giant Citi; Guarantees $300 billion of troubled assets - provides new cash injection of $20 billion
- US in recession since December 2007 - longest since 1982; Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke looks to options as benchmark rate moves to zero.
- US indicts Swiss private banking executive and lawyer for selling tax-evasion services
- US industrial production fell 1.4% in February; Capacity utilization fell in February to 70.9% - - the lowest since at least 1967
- US industrial production rose only 0.1% in October
- US inflation surged to a 17-year-high annual rate in July; Weekly jobless claims remain above 400,000
- US initial claims for unemployment benefits jumps to 16-year high; Continuing claims at 25-year high
- US Internet Retailer CSN to create 200 jobs in Galway within 3 years
- US investment bank Lehman Brothers reports second quarter loss of $2.8 billion; Plans to raise $6 billion in fresh capital
- US IT research firm Gartner examines the maturity and trends of 1,650 technologies
- US IT research firm Gartner examines the maturity and trends of 1,650 technologies
- US job loss of 467,000 in June higher than expected; Unemployment highest since 1983; Broad measure of unemployment rose to 16.5%
- US job losses in November accelerate to 533,000 - fastest rate in 34 years: Unemployment rate rises to 6.7% - highest in 15 years
- US job losses slowed sharply in July with 247,000 losses: Broad unemployment rate fell to 16.3%
- US jobs and economic scenarios
- US jobs market underperformed the Eurozone and other economies in the decade before the Great Recession
- US jobs numbers fell by by 125,000 in June; Broad measure of unemployment dipped to 16.5%
- US Justice Department files suit to force Swiss banking giant UBS to divulge names of suspected US tax evaders; Claim that $20bn of assets in "undeclared" accounts
- US Labor Day: Dr. Peter Morici on American workers in a global economy
- US Leading Economic Index declined in April
- US Leading Economic Index fell in June
- US Leading Economic Index improves in May for second straight month; Six-month change has become positive for the first time in two years
- US Leading Economic Index increased 0.1% in February indicating slow economic recovery
- US Leading Economic Index increased again in June; Confidence slowly building
- US Leading Economic Index increased in November for third straight month
- US Leading Economic Index rises again in March pointing to recovery
- US Leading Economic Index surged 1.0% in April; Trend of composite indexes suggests contraction will likely become less severe in upcoming months
- US leading economic indicators in March fell more than forecast
- US leading index dropped 0.5% in August
- US Leading Index fell sharply in July
- US Leading Index increased in September
- US Leading Index increased in September - - sixth consecutive increase
- US loses about $100 billion annually in offshore tax evasion; 19,000 Americans have undeclared UBS offshore accounts; Liechtenstein royal touted for business from tax evaders - US Senate report
- US lost -36,000 jobs in February; Broad level of unemployment rose to 16.8%; 41% of jobless unemployed for more than 6 months
- US lost 20,000 jobs in April; Manufacturing, Construction and Retail all shed jobs; Unemployment rate steady at 5%
- US lost 216,000 jobs in August; Broad unemployment rate rises to 16.8%
- US lost 240,000 jobs in October: Unemployment rate rose from 6.1% to 6.5%; Job losses in 10 months at 1.2m - over half decrease occurred in past 3 months
- US lost 254,000 private sector in September 2009; US GDP contraction in second quarter less than previously estimated
- US lost 263,00 jobs in September; Official unemployment rate rose to 26-year high of 9.8% - - broad rate climbed to 17%
- US lost 539,000 jobs in April; Pace of decline slightly eased; Unemployment rate rose to 8.9%
- US lost 598,000 jobs in January - - - - the most since Dec 1974 -- ; Employment has fallen 3.6m since Dec 2007; About one-half of decline occurred in past 3 months
- US lost 62,000 jobs in June - Six straight months of job losses total 438,000
- US lost 651,000 in February; Unemployment rate rose 8.1%; 2.6 million jobs lost in 4 months
- US lost 85,000 jobs in December despite gain of 4,000 in November; Broad measure of unemployment rose to 17.3%
- US lost 345,000 jobs in May; broad measure of unemployment rose to 16.4%
- US manufactured durable goods rose 2.9% in April
- US manufactured durable goods rose in July signalling strength in business capital spending despite economic headwinds
- US manufactured goods orders rose in May: Private sector jobs fell by 79,000 in June; Overdue Home-Equity Credit Lines rise most since 1987
- US manufacturing activity expanded for the first time in 18 months in August
- US manufacturing contracted in March for the 14th consecutive month
- US Manufacturing contracted in November at the fastest pace since 1982; Commodity prices fell at the fastest rate since 1949
- US Manufacturing contracted in September at the fastest rate since 2001
- US manufacturing costs low compared with Europe; China concerned about suicides at massive 300,000 worker plant
- US manufacturing sector activity expanded in October to highest level since April 2006
- US manufacturing sector contracted in February for the 13th consecutive month
- US manufacturing sector contracted again in June but pace of decline is slowing
- US manufacturing sector expanded in June following four months of contraction
- US manufacturing sector expanded in November for the fourth consecutive month but pace of growth slowed
- US manufacturing sector failed to grow in April while the overall economy grew for the 78th consecutive month
- US manufacturing sector failed to grow in October for the third consecutive month; Overall economy stalled after 83 consecutive months of growth
- US Manufacturing: Even the best innovators can struggle to raise funding at home
- US may concede its 1890 crown as the world's top manufacturer to China in 2013/14
- US medical devices firm Boston Scientific to add 45 "high calibre" jobs in Galway
- US monthly deficit increased to $42.3bn in May
- US monthly international trade deficit increased slightly in April 2010 to $40.3bn
- US monthly trade deficit increased in November 2009 to $36.4 billion
- US mortgage rates fell last week; New home loan applications dipped to lowest since 1997; Loans in foreclosure or one payment overdue at 14.01%
- US multinationals boost increase in Irish service exports to almost double imports
- US new home sales and durable goods orders rose in February - - two positive signals for economy
- US new home sales fell to annual rate of 526,000 in March - the lowest level since 1991; Durable goods orders dropped for third straight month; Jobless claims fall
- US new home sales tumbled 11.2% in January to the lowest since at least 1963
- US newspapers' circulation loss accelerates to 7.1% in six month to March 2009; Visitors to newspaper websites rise 10.5% in first quarter
- US nonfarm private employment decreased 473,000 in June
- US nonfarm private employment fell 371,000 in July 2009
- US nonfarm private employment fell 84,000 in December 2009 - - the smallest since March of 2008
- US nonfarm private employment increased 55,000 in May 2010 signaling a sluggish recovery
- US orders for durable goods fell in April - the third decrease in four months
- US orders for durable goods rose in September; Capital goods spending increased at rapid pace
- US pending home sales in biggest rise in April since 2001
- US pending home sales up for fifth consecutive month in June as lower prices and mortgage rates attracted buyers
- US per capita personal income fell 2.6% in 2009 to $39,138 - - the first decline in 40 years
- US personal income fell in June; Savings rate also dipped from May
- US personal income fell in March
- US personal income increased 0.4% in December; Savings rate rose to 4.8%
- US personal income was flat in July; The personal savings rate fell
- US personal incomes show surprise rise in April; American savings rate jumps to 14-year high
- US personal savings rate rises to 4.2% in March from below zero in 2005; Eurozone rises to 15%; Irish rate jumps from 3% in 2007 to 10% in 2009
- US Personal Savings Rate rises; Asian countries led by China and Japan forced to reassess over-dependence on exports
- US pharma giant Pfizer sells Loughbeg site in Cork to Portuguese company Hovione; 150 jobs to be cut
- US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to cut 180 jobs in Cork
- US private employment fell 298,000 in August - - smallest drop since September 2008; Orders for manufactured goods rose 1.3% in July
- US private sector employment fell 697,000 in February; US service sector contracted for fifth consecutive month
- US private sector employment fell by 742,000 in March
- US private sector employment forecast to have fallen 169,000 in November
- US private sector employment plunged by 693,000 in December; Intel's sales fell 23% in fourth quarter
- US private sector jobs fell by 532,000 in May; Factory orders rose in April less than expected; Barometer of capital spending by businesses plunged; PMI data shows service sector activity fell at a slower pace in May
- US private sector lost 491,000 jobs in April - - signalling a slowing in job losses
- US Producer Price Index rose 6.5% in year to April; Core inflation rate - excluding food and energy - rose 0.4% compared with an advance of 0.2% in March
- US Producer Prices core annual rate in May rises to highest level since 1991; Housing starts in May fall to lowest since 1991; Current Account Deficit expands to 5% of GDP in Q1 2008
- US prosecutors charge senior executive of Swiss banking giant UBS with tax evasion conspiracy
- US real median household income fell to $50,303 in 2008; Number of people without health insurance coverage rose from to 46.3 million
- US recession ending with a roar
- US recession expected to end in September; Economists differ on whether recovery will be L or V shaped
- US recession is over but not officially yet
- US refrains from calling China currency manipulator; Economist says reduction in dollar role would help America's economy
- US Regulation: Volcker to outline the "Volcker Rule” to Congress
- US regulators say 10 of the largest banks need to raise capital by $74.6bn
- US remains world’s best environment for IT producers says the Economist Intelligence Unit
- US report says farmers who grow genetically modified (GM) crops are realising substantial economic and environmental benefits
- US report says governments can have bigger impact on job creation rather than focusing on new technologies such as clean tech
- US reports big jump in Internet Crime in 2008
- US retail sales and producer prices fell in September
- US retail sales ex-fuel and cars fell in June; Producer prices jumped 1.8% in month of June.
- US retail sales fell 1.8% in November; Producer prices plunge
- US retail sales fell 2.7% in December - down 9.8% in 2008; Import prices plunged 9.3% in 2008 - a record decline
- US retail sales fell in April because of plunging car sales; Other sectors positive; Weak dollar triggers surge in US Import Price Index
- US retail sales fell in June - - the second straight month of declines
- US retail sales fell in May
- US retail sales fell in September following end of "cash for clunkers" car rebate scheme
- US retail sales in current dollar value fell in July - the first fall in five months; Import prices rose 21.6% in year to July - highest surge in 26 years
- US retail sales increased 1.3% in November -- in cash terms; Consumer confidence rises in December for the first time in three months
- US retail sales posted record plunge in October - - biggest drop since at least 1992
- US retail sales rise 8.8% in year to March
- US retail sales rise in March; Consumer price inflation remained subdued
- US retail sales rose in May as consumers spent economic stimulus tax rebates; Annual import prices to May rose 17.8% - highest since 1982; Initial weekly claims for jobless benefits rose 25,000
- US retail sales rose in May boosted by a rise in gasoline prices - - up 28% in past six weeks; Continuing jobless claims hit 19th-straight record high
- US retail sales rose in October; Barometer of manufacturing fell
- US retail sales unexpectedly plunged in March
- US retail sales up 2.7% in August; Business sales rose 0.1% in July
- US retailers posted mixed sales results for January; New weekly jobless benefit claims rose unexpectedly; Manufacturers' orders gained in December
- US S&P 500 Index companies Q2 earnings down 29%; Excluding Financials earnings up 3.2%
- US S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices show prices rose in Q2 2009; In 12-month period down 32.4% in Las Vegas; 31.6% in Phoenix and 22% in San Francisco
- US S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices show steep declines in April: Las Vegas and Miami had annual price declines of -26.8% and -26.7% respectively
- US S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices: House price fall declines in June; Annual falls at 28.6% in Las Vegas, 28.3% in Miami and 25.3% in LA
- US S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices: Price falls slow in July 2009; Back to 2003 levels; 12 month declines of -31.4% in Las Vegas; -28.5% in Phoenix and -24.6% in Detroit
- US S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices: Prices in 20 City Composite Index fell 14.4% in year to March; Las Vegas down 25.9% followed by Miami, Phoenix and Los Angeles at -24.6%, -23.0%, -21.7%
- US sales of new houses in March 2009 fell less than expected; Durable goods orders also dipped but orders for nondefense capital goods excluding aircraft rose
- US sales of new one-family houses in August fell 11.5% in month - the biggest decline since 1963
- US sales of new one-family houses in December fell to annual rate of 331,000 - - the lowest since 1982; US jobless claims jump to record high
- US sales of new one-family houses jumped in July 2009; Rise in durable goods orders at two-year high
- US sales of new one-family houses jumped in July 2009; Rise in durable goods orders at two-year high
- US sales of new single-family houses plunged to lowest level since at least 1963 in May 2010 after the end of a government tax credit
- US sales of new single-family houses rose in June but were at the second-lowest since 1963
- US sales of second-hand homes unexpectedly rose in February; Distressed properties at 45% of sales; Median price plunges 15.5%
- US sales of second-hand houses rose in April; Distressed properties accounted for 45% of all sales in the month; Prices down 15% in year
- US second-hand home sales fell in May; Foreclosure/bank sales amounted to 31% of total sales
- US second-hand home sales rose in May for a second month as record foreclosures caused prices to drop
- US Securities and Exchange Commission charges Texas billionaire Sir Allen Stanford with $8 billion fraud
- US Securities and Exchange Commission extends investigation of hedge funds' trading of financial stocks; Hedge funds have moved $600bn into cash
- US Securities and Exchange Commission issues emergency order against "naked" short selling
- US Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate false market rumours
- US Securities and Exchange Commission to issue temporary ban on short-selling; Irish and UK regulators announce bans to protect financial stocks from shorting
- US Senate approves historic financial reform bill; Seismic changes could cut profits of Wall Street firms by 20%
- US Senate moves Obama stimulus plan forward to final vote
- US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations to hold hearings with Goldman Sachs executives Tuesday
- US Senate report charges that some of Wall Street's biggest firms helped foreign hedge-fund investors evade taxes; $100 billion a year lost to offshore tax abuses
- US Senate to vote on $700 billion rescue plan for Wall Street on Wednesday; Credit markets seize-up as overnight inter-bank rate for US dollar loans jumps to 6.88%
- US Senators round on Paulson and Bernanke; $700 billion bailout to trigger executive pay caps, equity stakes in troubled firms and more regulation
- US senators to consider jobs bill; High unemployment likely to warp American politics, culture and character of society for years to come
- US service activity grew in December after one month of contraction
- US service economic activity expanded in May
- US service industries accounting for 90% of the US economy, contracted in July for a second straight month
- US service sector activity contracted in July at faster pace than June; New orders for manufactured goods rose in June
- US service sector economic activity contracted in October
- US services sector grew in June for the sixth consecutive month but at a slower pace
- US slowdown spreads to rest of developed world and Asia
- US slowdown spreads to rest of developed world and Asia
- US software giant Oracle reports rise of 27% in fiscal fourth quarter net income
- US spacecraft lands on Mars; Confirmation of landing takes 15 minutes to arrive on Earth at speed of light
- US spends most on Health Care but quality is poor according to scorecard report; 75 million Americans are uninsured or underinsured
- US start-up activity plummeted in H1 2010; Steepest fall in at least 20 years
- US start-up activity plummeted in H1 2010; Steepest fall in at least 20 years
- US study says 20% revaluation of Chinese Renminbi could raise import prices 7%-11%
- US study says higher number of women in the Boardroom heralds future increase of women corporate officers and on average higher financial performance
- US subprime lenders spent $370m in Washington to ward off regulation; Financial firms spent over $5bn on lobbying and campaign contributions in period 1998-2008
- US sues European Union over technology product tariffs
- US survey reveals gulf between scientists and public; Just 32% of Americans believe in evolution; 49% of public accepts global warming is caused by human activity
- US Trade deficit falls slightly to $59.8 billion in May
- US trade deficit fell in May; Deficit with China increased to $17.5 billion
- US trade deficit fell to to $56.5 billion in September; Weekly initial jobless claims hit 7-year high - continuing jobless claims highest since 1983
- US trade deficit increased to $60.9 billion in April despite weak dollar
- US trade deficit narrowed in January; 2009 trade gap was $378.6 billion
- US trade deficit narrowed unexpectedly in October; Weekly initial jobless benefit claims rose last week - - continuing claims fell
- US trade deficit plunged 28% to $26.0 billion in February - - the biggest drop since October 1996
- US trade deficit posted its biggest increase in more than 10 years in July; New jobless claims fell last week
- US trade deficit rises in June 2009
- US trade deficit rises to $36.5 billion in September
- US trade deficit rose to $40.2 billion in December; 2009 deficit fell from $695.9 billion in 2008 to $380.7 billion in 2009
- US trade deficit rose to $40.4bn in March
- US trade deficit slightly widened in April as exports declined and oil imports continued their recent recovery
- US trade deficit unexpectedly narrowed in August
- US Treasury and Federal Reserve to propose sweeping plan to stem the worst financial crisis since the 1930's
- US Treasury announces toxic assets plan
- US Treasury prepares for Chrysler bankruptcy; Standard and Poor's says trends suggest role of cars diminishing; Average age of cars in EU15 rises to 8.2 years
- US Treasury Secretary in radical move ahead of G-20 meeting calls for tripling of IMF support fund / bigger fiscal stimulus measures
- US Treasury Secretary says American financial system is badly damaged; Needs more government help to avoid a collapse
- US unemployment rate fell to 10% in November compared to 4.9% at recession start in December 2007; Broad unemployment rate fell to 17.2%
- US unemployment rate fell to 9.7% in January; Employment dipped by 20,000 and the broad measure of unemployment fell to 16.5%
- US unemployment rate rises to 10.2% in October - - the highest since April 1983; Broad measure of unemployment surges to 17.5%
- US unemployment rate rose from to 6.1% in August and 84,000 jobs were lost; Payroll employment has declined by 605,000 in 2008
- US unemployment rate rose to 5.7% and 51,000 jobs were lost in the US economy in July; 463,000 jobs lost in 2008 - unemployment has risen 1.6 million in 12-month period
- US venture capitalists expect IPO drought to ease in 2010: Brazil, Russia and Israel gain momentum as attractive investment regions over next five years
- US web security firm Webroot to create 50 jobs in Dublin in 2 years
- US wholesalers cut inventories in April for the eighth straight month
- US, UK and France seek curbs on oil speculation
- Use of GM food biotechnology continues to grow across globe; Well-fed Europeans remain resistant
- V-shaped recovery underway in Emerging East Asia; Asian Development Bank warns of risk from early exit from fiscal and monetary measures
- Vacancies at a Fancy Address, 9 West
- Vacancies Plague Premier N.Y. Tower
- Vacancies Rise at Retail Centers
- Vacant-Property Fees Add to Woes
- Value added of US firms overseas as % of GDP highest in Ireland; US Employment of its Multinationals was 70% of total in 2006 down from 80% in 1988
- Value of UK commercial property loans in breach of their agreed terms more than trebled in six months
- Vanke's Property Sales Rise 28%
- Venture capital investments shift to energy closely tracking oil price movements
- Venture Strikes Land Deal
- VHI claims paid for Irish Alcohol and Substance abuse increase by 50% in four years
- Vhi raises health insurance premiums to rise by 8%; Average spend per customer €900 - - double competitors' costs; Medical procedures surge 73% in 5 years
- Vhi reports after tax loss of €65 million in the 10 month period ended the 31st December 2008; Claims paid jump 17% on 14% rise in number of medical procedures
- VHI reports loss of €42m in 2009; Customer payments up 14% in year; Premiums will rise by at least 6% to 7% for the next 10 years
- Vhi reports surplus rise to €112 .2 million
- Visa Europe says Irish shoppers spent an average of €1,700 each on online purchases of consumer products in 2008
- Visitor numbers to Ireland from major markets - - Great Britain and North America - - fell in July 2008
- Visitors to Ireland from Great Britain down 17% in September
- VMware parent EMC fires co-Founder and CEO Diane Greene - shares tumble 27%
- Vodafone Ireland to offer fixed line service
- Vodafone says revenues rose by 19% to £9.8 billion sterling in the quarter ending June 2008; Average revenue per user in Ireland fell but remains high
- Volcanic activity in April added to Irish travel slump
- Volkswagen becomes world's most valuable company after Porsche's sucker punch sent hedge funds reeling
- Volume of industrial production for Irish Manufacturing Industries fell 3% in three month period April to June 2008
- Volume of Irish retail sales jumped 14.9% in month of February 2010
- Volume of retail trade down by 1.2% in both Eurozone and EU27 in April
- Vornado Defaults on Cannery Loan
- Vornado Seeking to Raise PE Fund
- Vornado to Get Stake in LNR
- Vornado to Raise Funds Via TALF
- Vornado to Raise PE Fund
- Vornado v. Cerberus: LNR, Round 2
- Vornado's CEO Faces Tough Market
- Vornado's D.C. Connection Aids Results
- Vornado's Steven Roth: Optimism and Regrets
- Vulture Fund Makes a Move in U.K. Real Estate
- Wachovia Ousts Thompson
- Wachovia Set to Evaluate Mortgages Portfolio
- Wachovia Unloads Troubled Loans
- Wachovia Waives Mortgage Fees
- Wachovia's Big-Loan Executive Is Leaving
- Wall Street bonuses fell 44% 2008 to $18.4 billion - - the sixth-largest haul on record
- Wall Street contrarian James Grant asks: Why no Outrage?
- Wall Street firms set to break new records in 2009 with pay rising to $140bn; Bailed-out insurance giant AIG paid “retention bonuses” to kitchen staff
- Wall Street in biggest crash since 1987; GM plunges 31% - value in 2008 dollars 14% of level on day after 1929 crash
- Wall Street Journal says "builders' bank" Anglo a "national disgrace"; Sir Anthony O'Reilly's "empire now shows signs of unraveling"
- Wall Street Journal says Dell is trying to sell most of its computer factories to contract manufacturers and close others
- Wall Street Journal says latest forecasting survey of US economists shows a rocky road to recovery
- Wall Street pay returning to its normal stratospheric levels
- Wall Street profits in 2009 set to beat record at height of credit bubble with help of near zero interest rates
- Wall Street Reworks Mortgages
- Wall Street Wizardry Reworks Mortgages
- Wall Street's Accountability Deficit: "Money is like sea water. The more you drink, the thirstier you become"
- Warehouse Shortages
- Warehouse Shortages
- Warehouses Sprouting in Eastern Europe
- Warning in aftermath of Lisbon Treaty poll and current less affluent times, "great danger that racist incidents will increase"
- Warning on core inflation as Eurozone annual inflation in August confirmed at 3.8%
- Warnings Preceded Lender's Fall
- Warren Buffett visits IMD business school where its World Competitiveness Yearbook 2008 was launched
- Warren Buffett's Berkshire has worst year in 2008 since 1965; Lost 89% on $244 million investment in 2 Irish banks
- Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway to invest $5 billion in Goldman Sachs
- Washington Crisis Meetings: IMF presses Four-Step Plan; Paulson confirms plan to buy bank stakes; Dow has worst week in 112 years
- Washington Crisis Meetings: World financial leaders endorse G7 action plan; Pressure mounts for detail of “urgent and exceptional” steps
- Waste infrastructure deficiencies continue to affect Ireland’s competitiveness - Forfás
- Waterford Crystal site on market; Second death of renowned Irish glass brand
- Waterford Crystal to close plant for three weeks as decision awaited on State guarantee of €39 million bank loan
- Waterford Crystal to close plant for three weeks as decision awaited on State guarantee of €39 million bank loan
- Waterford Wedgwood reports loss of €180.9 million in year to 5 April, 2008
- Waterford Wedgwood's request for State guarantees for loans up to €39 million have been rejected by the Government
- Watergate Hotel Under Sales Contract
- Wave of Economic Pain Isn't Over
- WCI Files for Chapter 11 Protection
- Weak demand not competitiveness the dominant problem for German industry; Number of employees in manufacturing fell 1.7% in year to April 2009
- Weak domestic demand to undermine Eurozone growth potential in next six months
- Weak first quarter for Irish manufacturing despite stronger March figures
- Weak first quarter for Irish manufacturing despite stronger March figures
- Weaknesses in financial sector risk management persist says the Economist Intelligence Unit
- Wealth of the world's high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) increased 9.4% to US $40.7 trillion in 2007; India led the world in HNWI growth at 22.7%; Irish numbers fell by 1,000 to 20,000
- Weathering the Rain, and Property Storm
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- Weekly earnings in the Irish private sector fell by 2.7% in year to Q3 2009; Public sector pay rose 1.9% ex-pension levy
- Wells Bets on Recovery to Fix Mortgages
- Wells Fargo Is Sanctioned For Role in Mortgage Woes
- West European mobile phones sales fell 16.4% in the first-quarter: Nokia consolidates global leadership as Motorola's market share slumps to 10.2%
- Westbrook Offers Shrinkage
- Westbrook Swoops In to Aid Millennium
- Westfield Considers Bid for General Growth
- Westfield Pitches Plan for WTC
- WestImmo Sale Set to Stir Up Market
- What are the implications of the bursting of the bond bubble for the recovery as deflation fears abate?
- What can be learned from the Banking Crisis - - Prof. Hans-Werner Sinn
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- Wheat prices fell to a six-month low on Thursday after Ukraine reduced restrictions on exports; Rice prices hit a new record high
- When Neighbors Become Farmers
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- Whitaker Tribute Conference: International academic says Ireland’s economic institutions “seem inherently quite vulnerable to corruption, special pleading, ‘jobs for the boys’ and other such undesirable distortions"
- White biotech: A revolution in instalments with opportunity for zero dependence oil as a raw material
- Whitehall Cash Call Adds Insult to Loss
- Whitehall Funds Lose Their Luster
- WHO agrees strategy to promote research into drugs to treat diseases common in poor nations
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- Why a Housing Bailout Won't Help
- Why are Canadian banks more resilient?
- Why hate Ryanair? BBC's Panorama asks Monday; Michael O'Leary condemns ‘Hatchet Job’ agenda
- Why is "Irish reform" an oxymoron?
- Why is US employment so weak?
- Why Lenders Are Leery of Short Sales
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- Wide dissatisfaction with capitalism - - Twenty Years after fall of Berlin Wall
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- Will Upgrading Your Home Help You Sell It?
- Willem Dafoe Lists Rubber-Clad House
- Willis Tower? In Chicago, It's a Possibility
- Willis Tower? In Chicago, It's a Possibility
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- With Energy Rights, Money Trumps All
- With Wachovia's Fall, BofA Stands Alone
- Without reform, annual per employee health care costs for American companies will triple to nearly $29,000 by 2019
- World Bank chief says global economic crisis contributing to shifts in power relations; Euro and Chinese renminbi to assume bigger roles
- World Bank cuts 2009 forecast for China's economic growth to 7.5%
- World Bank plans to provide up to $100 billion in new aid to developing countries; Brown claims credit for China's $586 billion stimulus
- World Bank President says global economic crisis could lead to serious social upheaval; Economic recovery will be of "low intensity" for a prolonged period
- World Bank raises China 2009 GDP growth forecast to 7.2%
- World Bank remains upbeat about China’s growth prospects; GDP growth of 9.5% expected in 2010
- World Bank report says HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to be Africa's leading cause of death and lost GDP
- World Bank report says HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to be Africa's leading cause of death and lost GDP
- World Bank report says presence of foreign banks in Developing Countries expands access to credit and as well as financial services; Private capital flows to Emerging Markets to fall
- World Bank says $120 billion is required to recapitalise banks in Central and Eastern Europe
- World Bank says China’s growth momentum has continued in the first months of 2010
- World Bank says developed nations depend on emerging markets - - hit by severe shortage of foreign funds - - to revive demand; Global economy to contract 2.9% in 2009
- World Bank says developing countries of East Asia & Pacific can grow rapidly even in a weakened world if they implement structural reforms
- World Bank says new data show 1.4bn live on less than US$1.25 a day; East Asia’s progress has been dramatic since 1981
- World Bank says protectionist measures on rise; Mexico raises tariffs on US imports over highway ban on Mexican trucks
- World Bank says remittance flows to Developing Countries to decline by 7.3% in 2009
- World Bank says update of Worldwide Governance Indicators shows mixed record on anti-corruption over past decade
- World Bank says while the global crisis has hit China’s real economy hard it is still holding up
- World Bank says World Development Indicators provide benchmark amidst crisis
- World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicators 2008: Some Emerging Economies match the performance of rich countries
- World cereal production in 2008 to grow 2.8% to record; Wheat to account for bulk of increase
- World cereal production in 2008 to grow 2.8% to record; Wheat to account for bulk of increase
- World cereal production is expected to hit a new record this year; Financial crisis will hurt agricultural markets
- World commodity prices to rise moderately until mid-2011
- World Cost of Living 2009: Tokyo returns to top position; Dublin drops 9 places to 25th most expensive city in survey
- World Cost of Living 2010: Luanda in oil-rich Angola most expensive city for expatriates; Dublin gets 42nd rank, Belfast at 182 of 214 cities
- World Cup: A victory for the Dutch or Spanish could be the most desirable for Europe - - in purely economic terms!
- World Cup: A win for FIFA and likely loss for South Africa
- World Drug Report 2008: Seizures of amphetamines rise sharply in Saudi Arabia; Afghanistan had a record opium harvest in 2007; Coca cultivation increased by 27% in Colombia
- World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters - this year's theme: Shaping the Post-Crisis World
- World Economic Forum at Davos begins on Wednesday; Bankers heading for summit to lobby against Obama plan
- World Economic Forum: CEO confidence plummets to new low; Most top executives expect slow turnaround
- World Economic Outlook Update: IMF raises global 2010 growth forecast to 4.5%
- World Economic Outlook: IMF forecasts global recession; Predicts major Global Slowdown amid Financial Crisis
- World economy faces renewed spike in food inflation as feed cost rises push up price of meat; Australia warns of lower wheat crop because of dry weather
- World Energy Outlook 2008: Even with demand static over next 22 years, 4 new Saudi Arabias needed to make up decline in existing oil fields
- World Energy use projected to grow 50% between 2005 and 2030; Coal’s share has increased sharply over the past few years
- World equity markets registered their second consecutive month of positive returns in May with rise of 2.34% while the Irish market fell 3.63%
- World faces deepening crisis, IMF Chief warns
- World faces one-in-three chance of entering a depression - - Economist Intelligence Unit
- World growth to fall to lowest level since World War II: Deep recession forecast with global growth tumbling to 0.5% - - IMF
- World Hunger Summit 2009: Nestlé chief attacks "well-fed activists"; FAO head says FDI in agriculture has tripled since 2000
- World Intellectual Property Day - - Sunday April 26, 2009 - - Science Foundation Ireland says 250 patents filed since 2003 by its supported research groups; Commercialisation pending
- World oil prices rise on Chinese export data and upward revision in oil demand outlook by the International Energy Agency
- World Population Day: Deprived of Contraception, Poor Women in Developing World bear millions of unintended pregnancies World Bank says
- World Snaps Up City Property
- World trade heading for double-digit growth in 2010
- World trade in March was 21% above May 2009 trough; Industrial production up 12% from March 2009 trough
- World Trade Indicators 2008: Countries with lower barriers tended to have stronger, more consistent trade and export performance over past decade
- World trade up 0.8% in October after 5.4% rise in September - - 13.2% below April 2008 peak; 26-mile-long line of idled oil tankers may signal freight rates slump
- World trade up by 1.1% in November 2009 but still 12% below its peak of April 2008
- World trade volume contracted by 0.7% in month of January 2010 compared with December; World industrial production grew by 1.2%
- World trade volume dropped by 1.5% in September
- World trade volume expanded by 5.3% in month of September 2009 - - still 14% below the peak level reached in April 2008
- World trade volume expanded by an unprecedented 4.8% in December 2009; In 2009 trade decreased by a record 13.2%
- World trade volume fell by 0.5% in March after rise in February; Down by 11.3% in first quarter of 2009 from preceding quarter - - stunning annualised drop of 38%
- World trade volume fell by 0.6% in April but decline is slowing; Trade volume to fall 16% in 2009 but recover in 2010
- World trade volume fell by 1.3% in May from previous month; Rate of decline slows sharply
- World trade volume fell by 6.6% in January 2009; Three month average fall at stunning 40.7% annual rate
- World trade volume grew 1.8% in month of February 2010; World industrial production grew by 1.0% following an equal increase in January
- World trade volume grew strongly in May; Industrial production returned to early 2008 peak
- World trade volume growth continues on downward trend; In the three months to August, US exports jumped by 30.3%
- World trade volume increased by 0.8% in February 2009; Down a stunning annualised rate of 44% in three months December/February
- World trade volume plunged by 6.0% in November
- World trade volume plunged by 7.0% in December following a drop of 5.3% in November
- World trade volume rose 3.5% in July 2009 - - biggest surge in almost six years; 15.9% below peak in April 2008
- World trade volume rose by 2.5% in June - - still 19% below its peak in April 2008; World industrial production up 2.0%
- World trade volume rose by 2.5% in June - - still 19% below its peak in April 2008; World industrial production up 2.0%
- World trade volumes fell in April for the first time since January; Economic recovery may be losing momentum after restocking phase
- World Trade: European Union has largest share of global trade at 25%; Seismic shifts in trade relations over past 20 years
- World's airlines expected to lose $2.5 billion in 2009; Losses for European airlines will increase ten-fold to $1 billion
- World's biggest carmaker Toyota hit by more recalls in US - - investigating safety issues in Europe
- World's influential investors give Bernanke high praise; Skepticism about recovery in US/Europe; Focus on China and India
- World's Most Expensive Streets 2009: Dublin's Grafton Street slips to 8th place; New York's Fifth Avenue remains No. 1
- WorldSpreads benefits from market volatility; Revenues and profit rise
- Worldwide Cost of Living Survey 2008: Dublin remains at 16th most expensive city; Berlin gets 38th rank and Washington DC at 107th from 143 city sample
- Worldwide fish production at 160 million tons - - eight times as much as in 1950
- Worldwide mobile phone sales fell 6% and smartphones grew 27% in second quarter of 2009
- Worldwide mobile phone sales grew 17% in Q1 2010; Smartphone sales rise 48.7%
- Worldwide PC Market grew 16% in second quarter of 2008; Post Olympic blues unlikely to hit China's PC industry
- Worldwide PC shipments forecast to grow 12.5% in 2008
- Worldwide PC shipments grow 27% in first quarter of 2010; HP in lead with 18% market share
- Worldwide PC shipments in Q4 2009 posted strongest growth rate in seven years
- Worldwide PC shipments reached 82.9 million units in Q2 2010 - - a 21% increase from Q2 2009
- Worldwide sales of chips fell 28.6% in January; PC industry facing biggest annual slump since its inception
- Worldwide sales of mobile phones will reach 1.28 billion units in 2008 - an 11% increase from 2007; Asia-Pacific sales to rise 17.9%
- Worldwide sales of PCs fell in first quarter of 2009; HP takes the lead in US PC market from Dell as consumer shipments beat expectations
- World’s biggest banks proposing reforms to limit size and scope of their businesses in response to “most challenging financial crisis in the entire post-war period”
- World’s food import bill will drop by 20% this year
- World’s most powerful atom smasher aims to unlock the secrets of the universe by replicating the Big Bang
- WTC Buildings Delayed, Costs Rise
- WTC Development Talks Continue
- WTC Rebuilding Faces Big Setback
- WTC Site Timetable to Be Scrapped
- WTC Talks Approach Stalemate
- WTC's Transit-Hub Design Costs Mount
- WTO forecasts world trade will fall 9% in volume terms in 2009 - - biggest contraction since Second World War
- Wynn Builds Resort as Las Vegas Slumps
- Yahoo! agrees deal to use Google's advertising technology
- Yahoo! first quarter profit rises but Microsoft says bid offer will not be increased
- Yahoo! reports 18% drop in second quarter net income
- Yahoo!'s stock fell almost 15% on Monday after Microsoft's withdrawal of bid offer
- Year of Reckoning for Europe's Lenders?
- Year's First CMBS Deal Arrives
- You Don't Have to Be Rich to Own a Home on the Beach
- Young workers in New York now earn no more than their counterparts did in 1979 despite being better educated
- Your Taxes at Work
- Zell Looks to Tribune Real Estate
- ZEW German Indicator of Economic Sentiment fell in May because of the debt crisis
- ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany continued to improve in May 2009
- ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany dipped in June 2010
- ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany dipped in June 2010
- ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany dropped sharply in July 2008
- ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany improved in January 2009
- ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany increased slightly in December
- ZEW Indicator of German Investor Confidence rose to two-year high in April
- Zuckerman Takes Manhattan
- Zurich employees can buy the most goods after paying taxes/social security - - followed by Sydney, Luxembourg, Dublin and Miami in survey of 73 cities
- Bank for International Settlements issues stern warning to central banks on low interest rates
- Bank of England cuts benchmark rate to 0.5% - - a new low in its 315-year history; Plans purchasing £75 billion in assets i.e. printing money
- Bank of England says UK consumer price inflation may rise to 4%
- Cowen says establishment of "bad bank" NAMA is “arduous and complex task”; Dáil likely to be recalled from summer holidays early in September
- European Central Bank, NAMA and long-term economic value
- European Commission to launch CAP "Health Check" and propose minor changes; US raises forecast of food price inflation
- Eurozone unemployment rises to 9.5% in July 2009; 15m people without work; Netherlands at 3.4%; Spain at 18.5%; Ireland at 12.5%
- First-Time Buyers' share of Irish mortgages grows as other sectors withdraw from market
- IFG says 2008 results hit by Irish housing slump and the fall in sterling
- Innovation in manufacturing in Ireland - including the foreign owned sector - remained relatively static over the 15 year period to 2005 despite strong growth in the Irish economy