Elon Musk

Early Edition with Aideen Finnegan

Twitter had its faults but it didn’t have an overt political agenda, that changed under Elon Musk

We can be proud that Ireland continues to stand in solidarity with the most marginalised around the world

We have been told that the left’s grasp on the culture is all but total – yet the biggest film of the year is a Christian morality play

Companies in Ireland should disclose the ratio of CEO pay to median employee pay as US and UK groups do

Brothers being held in a federal jail in Miami as a US judge weighs Britain’s extradition requestn

Let’s not pretend right-wing blowhards criticising Christopher Nolan’s film really care about infelicities in shipbuilding

Four-time Irish 1,500m champion Cathal Doyle says the race to catch up is already on

Capital expenditures more than doubled as company accelerates pivot to AI and robots

Latest legal actions could involve decisions on complaints against social media giant

Available figures show that women continue to trail in the workplace on pay and their representation in the upper ranks

Shares slipped below their $135 listing price less than a month after SpaceX’s blockbuster IPO

Willy Wonka, like all billionaires, goes into space in the end. Perhaps Elon Musk should purchase a cane

How the second coming of the most mercurial US leader in history ushered in a presidency driven by ‘pure gut instinct’

Banks that underwrote flotation unanimous in recommending shares trading below market debut price

Bank bosses all received pay hikes while Ryanair chief Michael O’Leary recently extended his contract with a big package of share options

Morgan Stanley gives Elon Musk’s AI and rocket stock $300 price target as quiet period ends following record IPO

A quiet start to the week saw marginal rise for Irish markets

Strong second-quarter sales in Europe and China help offset weak US figures hit by end of EV tax credits

The tech billionaire’s anti-democratic ideals have been out in the open for years

Swathes of SpaceX shares are set to hit the market in the coming months

Bosses of S&P 500-listed firms are all doing well, but they are all dwarfed by Elon Musk

Stock sheds hundreds of billions of dollars in market value

UK shares largely shrugged off news of prime minister Keir Starmer’s resignation

The president as a maniacal urban planner is a white-knuckle ride, with Washington just holding on for dear life

At $2.97tn, SpaceX briefly overtook Microsoft and Amazon to become the world’s fourth-most valuable company

Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood make growing old sound like the best fun ever

Iseq All-Share index closes at fresh all-time high, with banking stocks and home builders in demand

Dazzled SpaceX investors and frenzied brick-throwing boys in Belfast are all swallowing his dark fantasies

A firm that is a rocket-maker, broadcaster, chatbot and arm of the Pentagon is many things, but a foundation for national infrastructure is not one of them

A book coining the ugly phrase ‘suicidal empathy’ has been on the NYT bestseller list. At its heart is the idea that ‘misdirected’ empathy is destroying western civilisation

Mainstream politicians and powerful platform owners competed and collaborated to dominate the radical right agenda

Investing in SpaceX isn’t a bet on the company’s fundamentals, it’s a bet on Elon Musk

Travel stocks and financials among those to fare best as mood improves across all markets though not for Big Oil

Shares jump as much as 25% over IPO price on first day of trading after attracting orders for more than three times the amount on offer

Hype and hope collide in the biggest IPO in history

Micheál Martin defends Common Travel Area but says issues need to be addressed

Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock

Progamme will involve a spacecraft docking demonstration ​in Earth’s ⁠orbit ⁠next ​year, ahead ‌of a ⁠planned 2028 moon landing

Any adverse outcome of inquiry into X’s complaints regime could mean fines up to 6 per cent of turnover