Elon Musk

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

Analyst says IPO looks ‘like a way to lure unsuspecting investors into paying off’ debt, ‘fund an increasingly costly AI race and lock in a trillion-dollar pay day’

Elon Musk’s space exploration business thinks it’s worth $1.75tn, but some analysts value it at only half that

Fears of an interest rate increase has unsettled investors

Prime minister’s comments follow remarks by JD Vance blaming the murder of British teenager on mass migration

Billionaire owner of social media platform X ‘trying to whip up division’, says Keir Starmer, following riots in Southampton

Artificial intelligence is everywhere, but not everyone is sure that is a good thing

It’s as if everyone is holding their breath and waiting for what they have been told is coming but, as Pope Leo says, we all have a responsibility to shape the future

Banks and travel stocks suffer setback in Dublin while collapse of Akzo Nobel takeover wipes over 17% off its market cap

Early Edition with Aideen Finnegan

If Elon Musk succeeds in listing SpaceX on the stock market, our pensions could be invested in this one-sided racket

Elon Musk’s carmaker sees bright start to 2026 as EV sales rise across the board

Roughly 90% of the touted $28.5tn ‘market opportunity’ pertains not to space but to AI and adjacent data-centre services

ChatGPT group founder’s reputation has taken a battering in a courtroom battle that was ultimately decided on a technicality