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As the UK election bombshell unfolds this morning, business owners in Ireland already having to deal with the uncertainty around Brexit will be waking up to further reasons for concern. Below are three things that Irish businesses should monitor. 1. Falling sterling Falling sterling – for now the market is reacting very sensitively to developments. […]

Sterling dived and the FTSE share index was set to fall 1pc on Friday after a shockingly bad election result for Prime Minister Theresa May plunged Britain into political chaos days before the start of Brexit talks. The surprise of a result that raises questions about how Britain will advance with its plan to leave […]

Sterling dived and the FTSE share index was set to fall 1pc on Friday after a shockingly bad election result for Prime Minister Theresa May plunged Britain into political chaos days before the start of Brexit talks. The surprise of a result that raises questions about how Britain will advance with its plan to leave […]

Mario Draghi has given the clearest indication yet that the era of record low borrowing costs is drawing to a close. The European Central Bank (ECB) ruled out further interest-rate cuts yesterday, in a sign that it’s moving towards the final chapter of a vast stimulus program that pumped cheap cash into the financial system […]

The cost of motor insurance premiums fell for the second month in a row in May. New figures from the Central Statistics Office show that motor cover was 8.6pc cheaper last month than a year earlier. It comes after a fall of 2.6pc in the cost of insurance in April. Overall price changes were flat […]

The rebound in demand for Irish sovereign debt shows little sign of dwindling following this morning’s €1bn auction by the National Treasury Management Agency. In a further indication that Ireland’s economy has regained a normalised footing after its crippling banking crisis, investors piled into the sale pushing yields below comparable issuances earlier this year. A […]

Brexit will make it much more difficult for Ireland to fight plans by the European Commission to standardise the way corporation tax is calculated and paid across the EU, an academic has warned. Aidan Regan, an assistant professor at the School of Politics and International Relations at UCD, said the UK’s withdrawal from the European […]

Credit ratings agency Moody’s has upgraded the long-term bank deposit and debt ratings of Bank Of Ireland and AIB. As part of the same action, Moody’s upgraded the baseline credit assessments (BCAs) of AIB and BOI. The news comes one week after the Government announced that it is to float a quarter of its share […]

The Brexit vote has dealt short-term damage to the UK’s offering as a foreign direct investment location, a report claims, with the country experiencing a 42pc fall in greenfield capital investment year-on-year. The number of projects dropped by 9pc, as did job creation, according to the data from the ‘Financial Times’ FDI Intelligence unit. The […]

One-in-three houses put on the market almost three months ago has failed to sell. A snapshot of almost 200 properties across 15 counties ranging from two-bed apartments to €1m-plus homes shows that 30pc, or 58, remain on the market despite the housing shortage. Experts said that in many cases, houses were overpriced leading them to […]