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
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
Property carries tax liability for landlordsProperty can be an investment but it also carries with it tax liabilitiesFri Sept 29 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
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
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
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
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
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
ECB may pay dear for taking easy optionAnother European Central bank meeting, another rate riseSat 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
Etain Doyle's decision on phones licence `gutsy'Telecoms regulator Etain Doyle's decision to award the third generation (3G) mobile phones licences in the State after a beauty…Sat Jul 29 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
SIPTU calls for a PPF review in advance of dataTo no one's great surprise, the unions are calling for a review of the terms of the Programme for Prosperity and FairnessSat Jul 15 2000 - 01:00
Red letter week for accountantsIt has not been a good summer for accountants, at home or abroadSat Jul 15 2000 - 01:00
Act puts Ireland ahead of posse in e-lawThe President Mrs McAleese this week signed into law the Electronic Commerce Act 2000Sat Jul 15 2000 - 01:00
EC presses on accelerator over telecoms monopolyAs if Eircom had not enough problems, it is now faced with a more rapid handing over of the one area of the telecommunications…Sat Jul 15 2000 - 01:00
DIRT bills finally hit homeThe bills arising from the DIRT scandal are finally hitting home for errant banks, whose cavalier approach to non-resident accounts…Sat Jul 08 2000 - 01:00
Once bitten, twice shy for Europe's telcosHaving been fleeced in the battle for Britain's next generation of mobile phone licences, the telecoms sector has wised upSat Jul 08 2000 - 01:00
Customers put British banks in their placeRare it is that the humble customer wins an argument with a bankSat Jul 08 2000 - 01:00
Eircom instructs in value of fundamentalsEircom is celebrating its first anniversary as a public company, if celebrate is the right wordSat Jul 08 2000 - 01:00
Car sales accelerate and tax take tooSo we're spending like the boom will never end and one of the biggest winners is the ExchequerSat Jul 08 2000 - 01:00
Inflation moves posing a puzzleQuite who the Government hoped to keep happy with its inflation control proposals is a puzzleSat Jul 01 2000 - 01:00
E-commerce Bill all set to be signed into lawIt went to the wire but the Dail this week agreed the E-commerce Bill, clearing the way for it to be signed into law with an …Sat Jul 01 2000 - 01:00
Standard Life sees off carpetbaggers' threatBritain's largest mutual broke new ground this weekSat Jul 01 2000 - 01:00
Uncertainty still faces Eircom strategic saleIt's been another bad week for EircomSat Jul 01 2000 - 01:00
Happy ending eludes EircomEircom and its army of small shareholders must be wondering when the nightmare will endSat Jun 24 2000 - 01:00
CGNU only think bigOnce again this week, the little investor has been left out in the coldSat Jun 10 2000 - 01:00
Some credit due to DuisenbergHaving taken all the brickbats when the euro was at the wrong end of a hiding in the currency markets, you can scarcely blame…Sat Jun 10 2000 - 01:00
Microsoft's tacticsNo surprises in the end when the US district judge Thomas Penfield Jackson finally ruled on the penalties in the Microsoft case…Sat Jun 10 2000 - 01:00
EBS mortgage troubleTrying to be nice can get you in trouble. Just ask the EBS Building SocietySat Jun 10 2000 - 01:00
Tesco initiative does it creditA picture of cats and pigeons was summoned up by the announcement this week of the arrival of a new credit card in the Irish …Sat Jun 03 2000 - 01:00
Many casualties in Merrion re-ratingThe onward march of inflation has finally forced the Government to concede on its full-year forecasts, with the figure expected…Fri Jun 02 2000 - 01:00
Eircom delivers ringing messageHe may be right, but the last thing beleaguered Eircom shareholders need right now is the company's chief executive, Alfie Kane…Sat May 27 2000 - 01:00
First Active finds itself on a learning curveGiven the reception he received from shareholders at this week's annual meeting, First Active's chairman, Mr John Callaghan, …Sat May 20 2000 - 01:00
Keane must be seen to deliverBank of Ireland released its annual figures with a flourish this week, unlike the surreptitious performance by its rival, National…Sat May 13 2000 - 01:00
