Investment firm seeks €150m to buy distressed Irish mortgagesMerrion Capital targets loans for ‘mortgage-to-rent’ schemeFri Feb 10 2017 - 01:00
KBC signals interest in Irish deals as it commits to marketBanking giant says it will make Republic one of its ‘core countries’ following profit surgeThu Feb 09 2017 - 19:09
NTMA hits top end of range with €1.25bn bond saleEuropean bond markets have been rattled by political uncertainty of lateThu Feb 09 2017 - 17:42
KBC sets aside money to compensate overcharged mortgage customersCentral Bank estimates up to 15,000 borrowers hit by industry-wide overchargingThu Feb 09 2017 - 11:55
Eir gets two credit rating upgrades in 24 hoursMoody’s and Fitch continue rating telecoms group’s debt below investment gradeThu Feb 09 2017 - 11:10
KBC decision bodes well for AIB’s stock market plansBelgian bank’s commitment to Ireland is boost for sale of State’s 25% stake in AIBThu Feb 09 2017 - 07:33
Smurfit Kappa raises dividend by 20% on record earningsShares in group climb by as much as 3.6% in Dublin to €25.78Wed Feb 08 2017 - 17:59
Ryanair set to buy further 100 Boeing 737 Max aircraftAirline cashes in on low interest rates by borrowing €750m in its third bond issueWed Feb 08 2017 - 13:31
Nama redeems further €1.1bn of senior bondsAgency has paid back 95 per cent of debt owed to banks for loans bought during crisisWed Feb 08 2017 - 13:17
Tullow Oil nears end of tidying up after $4bn of write-offsOil group focuses this year on deleveraging and refinancing $3.3bn banks facilityWed Feb 08 2017 - 13:16
Central Bank concerned over Gibraltar ‘passporting’ car insurersRegulator expresses concern to EU authority over British territory’s approval of insurersTue Feb 07 2017 - 19:00
UDG shares soar on forecast of up to 16% earnings growthSome 20% of shareholders vote against directors’ remuneration report at agmTue Feb 07 2017 - 17:10
ECB purchases of Irish bonds fall 45% as limits biteAbout €19 billion of Irish government bonds estimated to be held by ECBTue Feb 07 2017 - 10:59
Newry’s First Derivatives looks beyond Wall Street for growthPartnership with UK investment firm will employ database tool in various sectorsTue Feb 07 2017 - 08:59
DCC to buy Esso’s filling stations in Norway for €273.5mFTSE 100 company says third-quarter operating profit strongly ahead of the prior yearTue Feb 07 2017 - 07:15
Kurdish hacker hits scores of Irish websitesThe National Treasury Management Agency website is shut down all day on MondayTue Feb 07 2017 - 04:38
Anti-Isis Kurdish hacker targets NTMA websiteState’s debt office took website offline ‘as soon as unauthorised access was detected’Mon Feb 06 2017 - 13:44
‘Canada’s Warren Buffett’ eyes 20% stake in FBD as shares surgeInsurer expected to return to profit, increasing chances of Fairfax investmentMon Feb 06 2017 - 12:20
NTMA to sell up to €1.25bn of debt on ThursdayState will have raised more than 50% of minimum full-year debt target by end of weekMon Feb 06 2017 - 10:16
Brookfield ‘committed’ to Ireland despite wind farm saleCanadian firm expects to make €300m on sale of assets bought from Bord Gáis in 2014Sat Feb 04 2017 - 07:30
Leading Aryzta shareholder slashes stake post-profit warningMassachusetts Mutual cuts investment in food company below 2.9% from 6.1%Sat Feb 04 2017 - 05:55
Riskiest AIB and Bank of Ireland bonds hit record highs on new plansAnalysts predict both banks will buy back riskiest bonds at earliest opportunityFri Feb 03 2017 - 18:39
Banks advance bond ‘bail-in’ plans under new European rulesAIB and BoI will set up holding companies to cushion depositors and taxpayers in a crisisFri Feb 03 2017 - 15:57
Willis Towers Watson to create 40 jobs in CorkNew roles will be in asset management servicesFri Feb 03 2017 - 15:38
Getting to the core of Europe’s case against Apple and IrelandCompetition commissioner Margrethe Vestager has the iPhone giant in her sightsFri Feb 03 2017 - 06:00
Noonan ‘not seeking to defend’ Apple’s low global tax paymentsGovernment says back tax that commission wants State to collect actually owed to USThu Feb 02 2017 - 16:05
European markets boosted by strong economic data globallyMining stocks a bright spot in Dublin with Ormonde Mining gaining 5.6% and Kenmare Resources rising 4.9%Wed Feb 01 2017 - 19:15
Cairn shares rise as Davy turns more positive on outlookDavy raises profit margin outlook for homebuilder on rising house pricesWed Feb 01 2017 - 10:11
ESB sells €500m of bonds to refinance more expensive debtEnergy group to pay annual interest rate of 1.75 per cent on new bondsTue Jan 31 2017 - 19:16
Vestager says Government must prod EU to prioritise Nama complaintDevelopers claim Nama plan to deliver 20,000 homes amounts to illegal state aidTue Jan 31 2017 - 18:34
Greencore to consult shareholders after revolt over chief’s payFood group says it is on track but warns of inflation in costs of raw materials and labourTue Jan 31 2017 - 17:56
Vestager says Ireland owed almost all the €13 billion of Apple back-taxesEuropean competition commissioner in Dublin to address Oireachtas committeeTue Jan 31 2017 - 16:49
Vestager faces Oireachtas committee over Apple caseCompetition commissioner to meet Noonan who is appealing against EU tax rulingTue Jan 31 2017 - 12:45
Vestager says EU is not on ‘witch hunt’ against US firmsEuropean competition commissioner faces questioning from Oireachtas committeeTue Jan 31 2017 - 10:44
Brexit may fuel Irish gas price hikes and disruption, report saysCorrib field has potential to meet up to 60% of Ireland’s gas needs in the short termTue Jan 31 2017 - 05:16
DCC could spend €1.2bn on deals, Goldman Sachs saysShares in London-listed Irish group jump as much as 4.6% on bank upgrade to ‘buy’Mon Jan 30 2017 - 19:11
Iseq falls on Donald Trump’s immigration moveCurbs heighten concern about impact of new policies on trade and the economyMon Jan 30 2017 - 11:45
Goodbody secures Playtech role in first non-Irish FTSE 250 brokershipStockbroking firm hired Piers Coombs last year to help UK expansionMon Jan 30 2017 - 10:35
Owen Killian’s future in question as baker Aryzta fails to rise to US challengeThe real source of Aryzta’s woes is an overcapacity for several years in its North American operationsFri Jan 27 2017 - 08:49
Killian’s remuneration has topped €20m at under-fire AryztaShares in food company slumped 36 per cent over two days this weekFri Jan 27 2017 - 06:00
AIB sale will probably take place in May or June, Noonan saysMinister for Finance expresses greater confidence of 25% stake saleThu Jan 26 2017 - 21:43
Northern Ireland biopharma group sets up Dundalk baseAlmac Group making multimillion euro investment in Dundalk premises as it seeks to maintain access to EU marketThu Jan 26 2017 - 14:12
Aryzta €600m refinancing ‘more difficult’ after profit warningFood company may offload stake in French frozen food company to appease investorsThu Jan 26 2017 - 05:50
Markets rally on optimism about growth and corporate earningsCRH and banks are in demand in Dublin as Iseq ends session almost 1% higherWed Jan 25 2017 - 21:03
Trump takes to Twitter as Dow tops 20,000 on Wall StreetBlue-chip stock index has surged almost 10 per cent since US election in NovemberWed Jan 25 2017 - 19:06
Not an average day for Dow as it tops 20,000 for first timeDespite stellar day, has the 121-year-old blue-chip index outlived its usefulness?Wed Jan 25 2017 - 16:58
Dow breaks through 20,000 in New York for first timeBlue-chip index reaches record high on buoyant earnings and optimism on growthWed Jan 25 2017 - 14:55
Trump helps CRH shares surge to within whisker of all-time highStock has jumped almost 15% since US presidential election in NovemberWed Jan 25 2017 - 10:53
Renewed Franco-German alliance ‘key’ to EU economic futureEurope has potential for ‘upside surprises’, BlackRock vice-chairman tells Dublin forumTue Jan 24 2017 - 20:18
Citigroup signals Irish expansionBank will have ‘good, steady’ Irish employment growth, says top European executiveTue Jan 24 2017 - 19:56
