Business giant gets set to roarHe may not have sprung many surprises in the Budget but the Minister for Finance, Mr McCreevy, is certain to face criticism on…Sat Dec 16 2000 - 00:00
IDA Ireland's job strategy feels the pinchA mixed week on the jobs front for the Government, which has invested much energy in persuading incoming investors to establish…Sat Dec 16 2000 - 00:00
Markets cut straight to US presidential chaseThe markets have an amazing way of cutting through the bluster and posturing of election candidatesSat Dec 16 2000 - 00:00
Job in the bank holds its worthForget the Budget. The biggest winners from the State's largesse this week were the staff of TSB and ICC banksSat Dec 09 2000 - 00:00
McCreevy set to lose in BudgetThere are times when Charlie McCreevy must wish he could throw in the towel and find a less contentious post in the Government…Sat Dec 02 2000 - 00:00
Banks claim customer focus in cutting servicesIsn't it amazing how banks keep telling us how every diminution of service is down to their concentrating their efforts on the…Sat Nov 25 2000 - 00:00
Joining the millionaire's club isn't quite the sameAnother week, another handful of paper millionairesSat Nov 25 2000 - 00:00
Economic gloom lurks right on our doorstepsLooking at various economic forecasts out this week, it was interesting to see the struggle among commentators torn between pride…Sat Nov 25 2000 - 00:00
Taxi cartel runs out of roadwaySo much for social partnership. It appears these days that everywhere one turns there's another industrial disputeSat Nov 25 2000 - 00:00
Charlie lets the good times rollSpend, spend, spend... that seems to be the message in this week's EstimatesSat Nov 18 2000 - 00:00
Charlie feels inflation's pinchCharlie McCreevy has spent a lot of time this week talking up the economy and his performance to dateSat Nov 11 2000 - 00:00
ECB gets taste for interventionHas the European Central Bank got carried away with itself? Not content with a week in which the euro rose encouragingly against…Sat Nov 04 2000 - 00:00
CIE paying the price for cycle of errorsThe prospects of CIE nurturing enough public trust to replace the car as a mode of transport for city commuters are remote as…Sat Oct 28 2000 - 01:00
Aer Lingus float path remains up in the airWhile shareholders in a former State monopoly may see light at the end of the tunnel, the outlook for another State enterprise…Sat Oct 28 2000 - 01:00
B o I gives elderly access to homes' cashFull marks to Bank of Ireland for finally introducing a financial product long sought by people in this StateSat Oct 28 2000 - 01:00
US wobbles and all the world is shookThe former US Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker once wrote: "The fate of the world economy is now totally dependent on the…Sat Oct 21 2000 - 01:00
McCreevy guarded on inflationSo much for the reliability of the inflation figuresSat Oct 21 2000 - 01:00
Costly verbal stumble on euroWell, what of Wim Duisenberg, a man accumulating unfavourable monikers faster than the euro is plumbing new depthsSat Oct 21 2000 - 01:00
No Christmas cheer at HasbroIt may be early for most of us, but toymakers have Christmas squarely in their sights by nowSat Oct 21 2000 - 01:00
Hard to get line on Eircom plansDespite its best efforts, it seems Eircom is quite unable to keep itself off the news pagesSat Oct 14 2000 - 01:00
Harney plan too good to be trueIt sounds so good. The Tanaiste, Mary Harney, has bitten the bullet and is ushering through the Dail a new Bill which will put…Sat Oct 07 2000 - 01:00
Technology leaves exchange high and dryDid you hear the one about the leading institution which bought state-of-the-art technology only to find that a holiday in some…Sat Oct 07 2000 - 01:00
AIB DIRT drama has low-key finaleThis was the week the big one finally came clean in the DIRT inquirySat Oct 07 2000 - 01:00
Interest groups queue up for McCreevy's bootyMinister for Finance Charlie McCreevy must be wondering if it is possible to have too much of a good thingSat Oct 07 2000 - 01:00
Mantra of economic utopia loses its glossIt is said that an adviser to the Taoiseach is conducting an "issues audit" among backbench TDs in an effort to inject new life…Sat Sept 30 2000 - 01:00
BMW regional assembly is far from the fast laneWinner of the title for the most inappropriate acronym of the year to date must surely go to the "BMW" regional assemblySat Sept 30 2000 - 01:00
TV ad makers already getting carried awaySpeaking of Aer Lingus and its flotation, there was a snippet which did not make the finance pages this week but which is very…Sat Sept 30 2000 - 01:00
Flotation hovers over Aer LingusFlotation was the word this week for Aer Lingus as it finally got around to posting its results for 1999Sat Sept 30 2000 - 01:00
Property carries tax liability for landlordsProperty can be an investment but it also carries with it tax liabilitiesFri Sept 29 2000 - 01:00
Airlines fly off and lose sight of customersIt's been a fun week all around for those involved in the airline businessSat Sept 23 2000 - 01:00
Eircom clicks in to search and replace modeIf there was one thing Eircom did not need as it sought to escape the glare of the front pages and the probing of its small shareholders…Sat Sept 23 2000 - 01:00
Investor rights will do nicelyHas anyone out there got any idea what the Minister for Public Enterprise, Ms Mary O'Rourke, can be thinking when she talks about…Sat Sept 23 2000 - 01:00
Exports may rise but complacency is outThe trouble with good economic data at the moment is that it encourages every Government politician to crow about how well we…Sat Sept 23 2000 - 01:00
TV3 coup puts it streets aheadSummer ended with a bang this week as a range of corporate and economic stories took centre stage.Sat Sept 16 2000 - 01:00
Dolmen positive on CRH prospectsHaving beaten the consensus forecast for its first-half profit, it is no surprise to hear that Dolmen Butler Briscoe is giving…Fri Sept 08 2000 - 01:00
ECB may pay dear for taking easy optionAnother European Central bank meeting, another rate riseSat Sept 02 2000 - 01:00
First Active has finally hit the right noteIf you wait around long enough, even First Active is likely to have a good week. And this was it.Sat Sept 02 2000 - 01:00
LSE centre stage in own theatreThere was a delicious irony this week in watching the London Stock Exchange acclimatising to the unusual position of being the…Sat Sept 02 2000 - 01:00
Net shows frailty again as hoaxer hits EmulexEmulex is a company most people outside a small band of enthusiastic investors will never have heard of before this weekSat Sept 02 2000 - 01:00
Top of the world, if only on house price risesThere's a riposte for those begrudgers who claim our favoured isle can never be top of any leagueSat Sept 02 2000 - 01:00
ACC causes little surpriseThere was very little surprise this week when it was confirmed that State-owned bank ACC had been one of the worst offenders …Sat Aug 19 2000 - 01:00
SEC stands up for small guy against industry self-interestThe special relationship stockbrokers enjoy with the companies whose stock is the bread and butter of their business is under…Sat Aug 12 2000 - 01:00
Eircom board stranded on executives' optionsTalk about being stranded between the devil and the deep blue seaSat Aug 05 2000 - 01:00
E-banking needs good securityThere are times when you just have to wonder whether the billions being poured into electronic commerce represent the greatest…Sat Aug 05 2000 - 01:00
AIB lives up to standard with even better resultsAIB Group performed its, by now, standard trick of producing better than expected figures when it released its interim results…Sat Aug 05 2000 - 01:00
NIB may not be out of the woods yet over DIRTIt has been a good week for the Revenue Commissioners and not so good for National Irish Bank (NIB) and its customersSat Jul 29 2000 - 01:00
Cisco job needs present challengeThe arrival of Cisco Systems represents a major coup for IDA Ireland and for the GovernmentSat Jul 29 2000 - 01:00
