No ‘Santa Claus rally’ on Wall Street on mostly moribund Monday
European stocks edge lower amid thin trading volumes in holiday-shortened week
Lidl Ireland narrows gender pay gap to 5.2%
Supermarket retailer closed its median pay gap to zero this year and says it is working to eliminate gap in average earnings
‘You can’t cook to save your lives’ and other quotes of the year
Planet Business: Pivots, experiments and the beauty of everyday life all feature in this round-up of the things people said in 2024
Wonderwallets: the cost of everything in 2024, from Oasis tickets to Leinster House bike shelter
Planet Business: The year in numbers, from Boris Johnson’s book advance to fines for dirty toilets at Dublin Airport
Romantasy, QuitTok and other words from a dystopia-coded year
Planet Business: Once heard, some phrases that rose to prominence in 2024 couldn’t be unheard
From Aer Lingus pilots to Alias Tom: Who were the winners and losers in Irish business this year?
In a year of closures and comebacks, Michael O’Leary had a ‘pain in the backside’, while Gail Slater was urged to ‘Make America Competitive Again’
Local newspaper group Formpress Publishing increases pretax profits to nearly €1.7m
Turnover at Malcolm Denmark-owned company up 15% to €11.7m, accounts show
‘Santa pause’ as consumer sentiment holds steady in December
Consumers now less fearful about the prospects for their own finances in the year ahead
Hauliers seek €60m a month in aid to cope with Holyhead port closure
Seen and heard: Port damage to hit prices; City library tender; Johnny Ronan’s Bewley’s deal; Mercury Engineering jobs; Oatier eyes Dublin flotation
It’s fishmas time again as aquariums deck the tanks and embrace scuba Santa
Planet Business: Instagram advertising forecast, Chrystia Freeland’s resignation and the highest-paid female sports stars
Nama completes €400m cash transfer to exchequer
State assets agency’s total contribution to date stands at €4.69bn which is expected to rise to €5.2bn by end-2025 wind-up
Thousands of Three Ireland customers due refund of €269 on average after ComReg investigation
About 14,000 customers affected by company’s failure to send appropriate notifications
Vodafone Ireland narrows loss to €4.8m amid 5G network investment
Revenue rises 2.8% to €1bn as chief executive Amanda Nelson hails ‘positive performance’
European markets slip as investors take fright at Federal Reserve signal on rates
Wall Street rebounds slightly from a selloff prompted by the Fed‘s hawkish 2025 outlook on interest rates
Upbeat report on National Digital Research Centre published by Department of Communications
Review by Indecon, submitted in 2023, finds NDRC’s accelerator programme exceeded its targets in 2021 and 2022, but centre is now slated to close