Tesla slides, but valuation still looks wildly detached from realitySome analysts are bearish on the electric vehicle maker but Tesla bulls have always valued hype rather than hard numbersSat Apr 11 2026 - 06:00
Iran’s parliament leader talks like a day-trading strategistWith the brisk and declarative tone of a trader on caffeine, one wonders if Wall Street might be his next postingTue Apr 07 2026 - 06:19
Magnificent seven no more as Big Tech stocks hit bear market territoryAs investors rotate away from high-flying tech, the era of effortless outperformance seems to be overSun Apr 05 2026 - 06:11
How does SpaceX justify a $1.75 trillion valuation?Starlink’s growth may justify optimism – but critics of Elon Musk say the numbers still require heroic assumptionsSat Apr 04 2026 - 05:56
Losing money in stocks is the norm, not the exceptionNearly 60% of stocks underperform one-month treasury bills over their lifetimes and the median stock return is a loss of 6.9% Mon Mar 30 2026 - 06:00
Trump under pressure, but it takes two to Taco on IranThe Strait of Hormuz cannot be reopened by executive fiat aloneSun Mar 29 2026 - 06:00
Pattern of well-timed bets raises questions beyond Iran episodePrediction markets have seen very profitable bets at key unflagged moments of the Trump presidencySat Mar 28 2026 - 06:00
AI bubble fears cool but major IPO tests lie aheadClassic scenario typically sees a rush of companies selling to ravenous public; the AI boom has been more marked by buy-backsMon Mar 23 2026 - 05:00
Avoiding ETF taxes may leave Irish investors missing outNew research suggests true diversification may require investment in as many as 750 companies to closely match the overall marketSun Mar 22 2026 - 06:00
Despite Iran war, stock markets don’t seem especially spookedInvestors are not ignoring the war, but they are assuming it won’t last long enough to really matterSat Mar 21 2026 - 06:00
Starbucks’ Howard Schultz joins billionaire migration to Florida’s sunny tax havenHoward Schultz joins Jeff Bezons and Sergey Brin among others switching to FloridaMon Mar 16 2026 - 05:26
Retrofitting will heat your house but freeze your financesWould cash spent beefing up your home’s Ber rating be better deployed investing in the market?Sun Mar 15 2026 - 05:25
Trump, Iran and the risks of a ‘rotten Taco’Are markets driving both US and Iranian foreign policy?Sat Mar 14 2026 - 06:00
From bone spurs to ‘God’s work’: no contrition from former Goldman Sachs bossIn his new memoir, Streetwise, Lloyd Blankfein can’t resist a dig at a certain US presidentMon Mar 09 2026 - 05:09
AIB chief Colin Hunt’s €2.7m pay reflects return to international normsA more than fourfold increase in one’s pay packet is attention-grabbing in any context, and especially so in IrelandSun Mar 08 2026 - 06:08
Market seatbelts on: Iran war jitters meet the buy-the-cannons ruleS&P 500 selling has been relatively contained, prompting the boss of America’s biggest bank, JPMorgan to warn of a ‘lot of complacency’ Sat Mar 07 2026 - 06:07
Wall Street’s latest AI jitters reveal a nervous marketSoftware stocks, already bloodied, were given another thump by Citrini Research’s ‘thought experiment’ blog post positing an AI apocalypseMon Mar 02 2026 - 05:07
Should Diageo sell everything else and change its name to Guinness plc?It’s the fastest-growing beer brand in North AmericaSun Mar 01 2026 - 06:00
Canada or Sweden? Simon Harris considers Ireland’s savings futureSwedish scheme has no cap on contributions and may be considered politically saferSat Feb 28 2026 - 05:56
Moderna’s vaccine ambitions run into a wall of ‘anti-science’ scepticismRegulatory inconsistency and the views of US health secretary hampering medical innovationMon Feb 23 2026 - 05:39
After tariff study, Trump loyalist wants Fed authors ‘disciplined’Economics of New York Fed’s study uncontroversial, but the politics is another matterSun Feb 22 2026 - 05:38
New savings scheme: Before incentives, fix what is already brokenThis State in effect penalises ordinary people for investingSat Feb 21 2026 - 06:00
Walmart joins $1tn club, trading like a tech stockDiscount retailer trades on multiples that are higher than Apple, Google parent Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia and MetaMon Feb 16 2026 - 05:00
The papal portfolio: more S&P 500 than sermonTwo new stock indices launched in conjunction with Morningstar – one for the US, one for the euro zone – are calibrated to Catholic principlesSun Feb 15 2026 - 06:00
Jim Ratcliffe’s ‘colonisation’ comments on immigrants land awkwardly at Manchester UnitedClumsy wording based on wrong figures raises fresh questions on judgment of club’s billionaire co-ownerSat Feb 14 2026 - 06:00
Bitcoin’s claim to be digital gold looks increasingly thinEconomist says investors generally treat cryptocurrency as something that thrives when US economy does well, not a refuge in global turmoil Mon Feb 09 2026 - 05:00
SpaceX IPO faces new questions after Musk’s AI mergerFamiliar territory as a cash-generating Musk company props up a riskier venture, with investors left to take it on faithSun Feb 08 2026 - 06:00
AI hype meets software reality in bloody week for stocksWhat we have seen is a massive market rotation, not a selloff, as evidenced by investors piling into defensive namesSat Feb 07 2026 - 06:00
Why retirement can make investors trade too muchBehavioural finance has long shown that more trading usually reduces returns, as emotional reactions and overconfidence creep inMon Feb 02 2026 - 06:00
Michael O’Leary offers hope of eventual return to Ukraine but only on Ryanair’s terms Ryanair boss says airports in wartorn state will need to offer big discounts on charges if they want airline’s return Sun Feb 01 2026 - 06:00
Trump and CEOs: speaking up, or just playing it safe?What looks like a newfound willingness to speak out is mostly carefully hedged, consequence-free speechSat Jan 31 2026 - 06:00
Oxfam, billionaire wealth and some missing market contextIt’s not only the super-rich who benefit from a rise share pricesSun Jan 25 2026 - 06:40
Michael O’Leary beats Elon Musk in the business of insultsO’Leary knows how to pick a row that pays; Musk, not so muchSun Jan 25 2026 - 05:42
Taco Trump, Greenland and the slow erosion of US market trustPolitical noise doesn’t necessarily translate into sustained market damage, but beneath the surface the narrative is shiftingSat Jan 24 2026 - 06:39
Trump’s Fed threats fail to spook markets – for nowFormer Fed chairs warn this is how monetary policy works in ‘emerging markets with weak institutions’Mon Jan 19 2026 - 05:00
Are Google founders fleeing California’s proposed billionaire tax?Larry Page and Sergey Brin have reportedly shifted entities tied to them out of California, while Page has spent $173m on two Miami estates Sun Jan 18 2026 - 06:00
Google reaches $4tn without betting the house on AIApple trails Google in market cap for the first time since 2019 as Alphabet shares soar 70% over the past yearSat Jan 17 2026 - 06:00
Trump’s Venezuela gamble puts Taco trade under scrutinyWill the US president be emboldened when it comes to economic policy now?Tue Jan 13 2026 - 05:23
A ‘metaverse moment’ could rattle the AI juggernauts in 2026JP Morgan analyst flags need for big profits amid huge investmentMon Jan 12 2026 - 06:03
AI bubble anxiety is everywhere, but are valuation concerns overstated?For all the talk of an AI bubble, it’s not clear that it’s about to burstSun Jan 11 2026 - 05:00
Donald Trump’s baby bonds: a policy idea worth taking seriously?The so-called Trump Accounts begin at birth with the US government depositing $1,000 in index funds Mon Dec 22 2025 - 05:12
Tesla in 2026: is anyone still counting car sales?Tesla’s share price is a bet on a future that may not existSun Dec 21 2025 - 06:03
Albert Manifold is shaking things up at BPGreen ambitions are giving way to a tougher, US-style oil-and-gas-first agendaSat Dec 20 2025 - 06:11
What will happen to stocks in 2026?Equity markets tend to be wilder than strategists suggestMon Dec 15 2025 - 06:00
CRH set for S&P 500, but gains may be fleetingInclusion often produces a short-term share price pop, but then fundamentals take overSun Dec 14 2025 - 06:54
Is there an AI bubble? Howard Marks weighs inYes, there is speculative activity and various causes for concern, but at the same time he notes why some insist ‘this time it’s different’Sat Dec 13 2025 - 06:00
A $350bn Anthropic IPO doesn’t make this a bubbleFirms tend to issue stock when they think it’s expensive and repurchase when it’s cheap. That’s not what’s happening now Mon Dec 08 2025 - 05:00
Trump loyalist Kevin Hassett as Fed chairman could politicise US monetary policyRespected economists once defended Hassett’s expertise but he has a record of partisanship and poor judgment Sun Dec 07 2025 - 06:00
Cash is king in Ireland, but Sweden shows investors a better wayThe notion that investing is exclusive means those who need their money to work hardest are the least likely to benefit from itSat Dec 06 2025 - 06:00
AI bubble? Big Short investor Michael Burry’s bold calls often miss the markCritics dismiss Burry as a one-trick pony, which is arguably harshMon Dec 01 2025 - 06:00
