Stock markets bounce back after torrid Thursday

Equities boosted by economic data and hopes that trade tensions will ease

European shares weaken on US interest rate fears and Italian budget row

Smurfit badly hit in Dublin as sector falls out of favour

European markets muted as US shares hit a record bull run

Markets report: Banking stocks drag down Iseq index, CRH gains ahead of results

Apple’s trillion-dollar marker encourages investors

Market report: Earnings announcements lift European shares at the end of volatile week

Smurfit Kappa slides most since Brexit vote as deal hopes fade

UK rival DS Smith agrees to buy Spanish cardboard box-maker Europac for €1.9bn

European shares dip ahead of new US sanctions on Russia

Trading remains cautious as tensions between western powers and Russia persist

Boxed in? Smurfit fights to escape the clutches of US rival

Unwanted suitor International Paper expected to return with new offer

Smurfit’s snubbed US suitor may have to bid €11bn to succeed

Shares in Irish packaging company set to rise again as International Paper reveals details of initial approach

European shares bounce off six-month lows

Smurfit Kappa shares in Dublin soar following rejection of takeover bid

Trump’s tariffs plan batters industrial stocks

Market report: Irish stock market remains closed but rest of Europe slumps on fears of trade war

Packaging group Mondi announces special payout as profit climbs

Company has been battling currency effects from South African rand and US dollar

Bank of Ireland results and unemployment rate

Your upcoming week in business: retail sales and AIB results plus UK housing prices

European shares build on post-selloff recovery

Nestlé, Norwegian Air and Standard Life Aberdeen among the fallers

European traders soothed as Spanish crisis eases

Global shares fluctuate ahead of release of minutes for federal reserve’s policy meeting

Barcelona terror attacks shake European travel stocks

Positive Kingspan results sends stock 9.5 per cent higher

The key business events happening this week

Apple results; Irish unemployment indicator; and UCD seminar on algorithmic consumers

CRH shares slide on US infrastructure Bill delay reports

Bank of Ireland edges higher on hopes lender will announce a return to paying dividends

European markets calm while US frets over interest rates

Investor confidence slowly coming back amid calmest market in more than year

Healthcare and consumer stocks boost European markets

Hibernia Reit down 1.01% after announcing developments and €1.6m State lease

Smurfit’s FTSE 100 aim on hold after UK indices rejig

Tony Smurfit-led paper packaging group to join FTSE 250 this month

Bank and mining company shares fall

Alphabet again takes over from Apple as world’s most valuable public company

For your diary

A round up of business events happening this week

For your diary

A round-up of business events happening this week

Mondi earnings expected to advance by as much as 28 per cent

Excluding special items, underlying earnings per share will be in the range 65-70 cent

Mondi sees full-year profit advance by 9%

Europe’s largest kraft paper and industrial bags producer raises its final dividend as profits increase

Grand Canal House sells for €500,000 above guide price

Investor paid €6m for the office block beside the canal

Wall Street gains on strong factory data

INM falls as rival Johnston Press books major loss on sale of regional newspapers

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