US abandons Big Brother for opennessIt must be something to do with Horst KohlerSat May 06 2000 - 01:00
Smokers face detention over cigarette breaksNext time you feel the urge to rage about intolerant bosses and colleagues over a furtive cigarette outside the doors of your…Sat May 06 2000 - 01:00
Trichet's ECB ambitions dim alongside the euroAfter last week's chaos, the euro continued to test new lows against the dollar, sterling and other major non euro-zone currencies…Sat May 06 2000 - 01:00
Love bug brings aid to tech security stocksThe so-called love bug has been wreaking havoc with computers across the globeSat May 06 2000 - 01:00
NIB results kept in the shadowsLess than a week after the Irish Bankers' Federation's incoming chief called on members to help restore the sector's tarnished…Sat May 06 2000 - 01:00
ECB seeks way out of euro crisisAfter all the excuses and all the bad luck, it seems increasingly clear the European Central Bank is at a total loss as to how…Sat Apr 29 2000 - 01:00
Nasdaq inspires perverse moodOne of the most intriguing elements of the market's recent decline, especially the slump in the value of technology stocks and…Sat Apr 22 2000 - 01:00
Broker gets the red light from Central BankAnother stockbroker, BCP, has been ordered by the Central Bank to stop taking on new clientsSat Apr 22 2000 - 01:00
TMTs providing touch paper for the ambitiousIt is not only the novices who have been burned by stock market vagariesSat Apr 22 2000 - 01:00
Mixed signals from ECB help undermine the euroPity the poor old euro; it appears it can do no rightSat Apr 22 2000 - 01:00
McCreevy's confidence may be of blind varietyConfidence is a great thing but blind confidence can be the prelude to a nasty fallSat Apr 22 2000 - 01:00
Redmond treated the same way as othersAlready there has been a lot of talk about the sentence imposed on former assistant Dublin city and county manager George Redmond…Sat Apr 15 2000 - 01:00
Microsoft woes hit the NasdaqAnyone who underestimated the power of Microsoft should learn a salutary lesson from the current gyrations in the US Nasdaq index…Sat Apr 15 2000 - 01:00
Telecoms boom may cause number chaosThese days, everyone is talking about telecommunicationsSat Apr 15 2000 - 01:00
First Active salaries not linked to performanceIt's just as well that salary increases at First Active aren't linked to the performance of the bank's share priceSat Apr 15 2000 - 01:00
Eircom leaves an uncertain airFor a company in the communications business, Eircom seems uncommonly poor at getting its message acrossSat Apr 01 2000 - 01:00
Price has yet to be paid for litterTime was when the phrase "Dirty oul' Dublin" was a term of endearment. Increasingly it is now a badge of shameSat Mar 25 2000 - 00:00
EU states end 27-year war of words over chocolateQuite why the British are worried about being bulldozed into a federal Europe is a puzzleSat Mar 18 2000 - 00:00
Winner all right for Kerry Group in Cheltenham weekJust when the ever-more hectic pace of the Celtic Tiger starts to get you down, along comes something to restore your faith in…Sat Mar 18 2000 - 00:00
Biotechnology lobby warns of no cure without patentsA cold wind blew through the ranks of biotechnology companies this week following statements from Bill Clinton and Tony Blair…Sat Mar 18 2000 - 00:00
Inflation dampens the Celtic Tiger's fireNow that the inevitable has finally arrived, it is causing all sorts of alarm in the ranksSat Mar 18 2000 - 00:00
Technology stock slide gives investors a reality checkThe headlong rush into new technology stocks pulled up sharply this week, giving pause for thought to those lucky enough to get…Sat Mar 18 2000 - 00:00
Silence leaves punters in doubtSometimes you just wonder at the tactics involved in this increasingly litigious societySat Mar 11 2000 - 00:00
Taxing times at British banksIt's not often that you will hear someone complimenting Irish banks, with their padded margins, for playing fair by their customers…Sat Mar 04 2000 - 00:00
Time for sense in row on DIRTThe spat between the Revenue Commissioners and banks based in the International Financial Services Centre is one of those delicious…Sat Feb 26 2000 - 00:00
Looking for an index of house price indicesBuying a house is already a confusing enough process, especially for first-time buyers, without the recent arrival of a raft …Sat Feb 19 2000 - 00:00
Hanging on the line for service at EircomYou've got to hand it to Eircom, the former State telephone operator, which now stands proud as the largest company on the Irish…Sat Feb 19 2000 - 00:00
Inflation data counter partnership spinSometimes the timing of certain events tests the patience of our national plannersSat Feb 19 2000 - 00:00
Beware cash-rich dot com turkeysAt last, a voice of reason amidst the phalanx of new technology interestsSat Feb 19 2000 - 00:00
Flocking to the dot.com partyDot.com has become a password to instant success in Western equity marketsSat Feb 12 2000 - 00:00
Investors pay as bank shares slipThey may have enjoyed spectacular gains only a year or two ago as financial stocks led the charge in the market but shareholders…Sat Feb 05 2000 - 00:00
Dorling Kindersley finds war takes heavy tollThe force certainly was not with James Middlehurst this weekSat Jan 29 2000 - 00:00
Direct PC sellers pay the price for efficiencyJust when you despair at the seemingly endless headlong rush to embrace new technologies and efficiencies, along comes something…Sat Jan 29 2000 - 00:00
NatWest chiefs play defence hand to the fullAgainst expectation, NatWest has mounted a creditable defence to hostile takeover bids from Bank of Scotland and Royal Bank of…Sat Jan 29 2000 - 00:00
B of I struggles in British pensions funds battleStrange, but I don't recall seeing the press release from Bank of Ireland outlining the performance of its pooled with property…Sat Jan 29 2000 - 00:00
Euro drifts as crew go missingThe euro is rapidly acquiring all the characteristics of the Marie Celeste, drifting aimlessly with no one on board.Sat Jan 29 2000 - 00:00
Cautious brokers take stock of missed chancesOnly last month, Peter Bacon's report pointed to the need for the Irish Stock Exchange to make itself more attractive for Irish…Sat Jan 22 2000 - 00:00
State banks call time on politicsWith all that money sloshing around in the State coffers, you've got to hope the Government manages its finances better than …Sat Jan 22 2000 - 00:00
Volatile drugs mix plays havoc with the emotionsThe merger this week of pharmaceuticals giants Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham stirred mixed emotions in BritainSat Jan 22 2000 - 00:00
Putting the big boys in their place on pensionsAll too often Ireland seems to lag its competitors in the economic arena, too small to carry much clout and, until recently, …Sat Jan 22 2000 - 00:00
Microsoft keeps eye on the ball despite woesIt may have its troubles with the US judiciary over competition matters and a new management team may just have taken the helm…Sat Jan 22 2000 - 00:00
Accountants pay price of consolidationThe ever-changing cycles of business are nothing newSat Jan 15 2000 - 00:00
Sitting back and letting the Web do the workOf all the wacky things in an ever more crazy world, the news this week that an individual in the US has changed his named legally…Sat Jan 15 2000 - 00:00
Banking becomes the new caring professionTime was that banking was a relatively simple professionSat Jan 15 2000 - 00:00
Gates returns to software rootsSo the end of the world came and went, but did anyone notice the differenceSat Jan 15 2000 - 00:00
Y2K may yet have some biteJust as everyone is patting themselves on the back over the non-appearance of the Y2K bug on any large scale, along come the …Sat Jan 08 2000 - 00:00
Charlie's gamble is a non-runnerWhat a dog's dinner. You would have thought with all the brouhaha over the "inequitable" Budget crashing down around their ears…Sat Dec 11 1999 - 00:00
