Flocking to the dot.com partyDot.com has become a password to instant success in Western equity marketsSat Feb 12 2000 - 00:00
Investors pay as bank shares slipThey may have enjoyed spectacular gains only a year or two ago as financial stocks led the charge in the market but shareholders…Sat Feb 05 2000 - 00:00
NatWest chiefs play defence hand to the fullAgainst expectation, NatWest has mounted a creditable defence to hostile takeover bids from Bank of Scotland and Royal Bank of…Sat Jan 29 2000 - 00:00
B of I struggles in British pensions funds battleStrange, but I don't recall seeing the press release from Bank of Ireland outlining the performance of its pooled with property…Sat Jan 29 2000 - 00:00
Euro drifts as crew go missingThe euro is rapidly acquiring all the characteristics of the Marie Celeste, drifting aimlessly with no one on board.Sat Jan 29 2000 - 00:00
Dorling Kindersley finds war takes heavy tollThe force certainly was not with James Middlehurst this weekSat Jan 29 2000 - 00:00
Direct PC sellers pay the price for efficiencyJust when you despair at the seemingly endless headlong rush to embrace new technologies and efficiencies, along comes something…Sat Jan 29 2000 - 00:00
Volatile drugs mix plays havoc with the emotionsThe merger this week of pharmaceuticals giants Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham stirred mixed emotions in BritainSat Jan 22 2000 - 00:00
Putting the big boys in their place on pensionsAll too often Ireland seems to lag its competitors in the economic arena, too small to carry much clout and, until recently, …Sat Jan 22 2000 - 00:00
Microsoft keeps eye on the ball despite woesIt may have its troubles with the US judiciary over competition matters and a new management team may just have taken the helm…Sat Jan 22 2000 - 00:00
State banks call time on politicsWith all that money sloshing around in the State coffers, you've got to hope the Government manages its finances better than …Sat Jan 22 2000 - 00:00
Cautious brokers take stock of missed chancesOnly last month, Peter Bacon's report pointed to the need for the Irish Stock Exchange to make itself more attractive for Irish…Sat Jan 22 2000 - 00:00
Banking becomes the new caring professionTime was that banking was a relatively simple professionSat Jan 15 2000 - 00:00
Gates returns to software rootsSo the end of the world came and went, but did anyone notice the differenceSat Jan 15 2000 - 00:00
Sitting back and letting the Web do the workOf all the wacky things in an ever more crazy world, the news this week that an individual in the US has changed his named legally…Sat Jan 15 2000 - 00:00
Accountants pay price of consolidationThe ever-changing cycles of business are nothing newSat Jan 15 2000 - 00:00
Y2K may yet have some biteJust as everyone is patting themselves on the back over the non-appearance of the Y2K bug on any large scale, along come the …Sat Jan 08 2000 - 00:00
Charlie's gamble is a non-runnerWhat a dog's dinner. You would have thought with all the brouhaha over the "inequitable" Budget crashing down around their ears…Sat Dec 11 1999 - 00:00
Time to play tough with the public sector?First it was the blue flu, then the angels on the picket line during the first national nurses' strikeSat Nov 27 1999 - 00:00
Germany's unfamiliar role heartens someIt is somewhat comforting to see Germany, so often quoted as the economic powerhouse of Europe, coming to the European Commission…Sat Nov 27 1999 - 00:00
Saga of offshore secrets unfoldsPicture this. Your firm investigates a somewhat secretive offshore investment option but decides not to proceedSat Nov 27 1999 - 00:00
Putting stockpicking on the school curriculumSome things are utterly depressingSat Nov 20 1999 - 00:00
Eircom price beats big hushWithin 24 hours of Eircom unveiling its maiden interim figures to fanfare in Dublin, a deathly hush fell over large parts of …Sat Nov 20 1999 - 00:00
Solution to a perennial sticky problemAt last, someone appears to have found a cure for one of the scourges of modern urban life - chewing gum.Sat Nov 20 1999 - 00:00
Banks face new front in attack on profitsEveryone wants to get a slice of the heretofore highly profitable banking business.Sat Nov 20 1999 - 00:00
SFA brings the begging bowl out over Y2KIt breaks your heart really to see the hard put-upon small business sector struggling to meet the demands of Y2K.Sat Nov 20 1999 - 00:00
Microsoft has wings clippedJust when it thought it was, effectively, the power of the computer era, Microsoft has had the wind well and truly taken out …Sat Nov 13 1999 - 00:00
Dow catches up with the high-tech revolutionJust when you think the fluctuations on the venerable Dow Jones index can get no worse, technology giants Intel and Microsoft…Sat Oct 30 1999 - 01:00
Elan pays the price for disappointing investorsHow fickle the favours of investors? In the case of those in the US, the answer is very, as Athlone-based Elan pharmaceuticals…Sat Oct 30 1999 - 01:00
Ulster gem in NatWest sell-offNATWEST is pulling out all the stops in its attempt to ward off the attentions of Bank of ScotlandSat Oct 30 1999 - 01:00
Bank of Scotland stands up to challengeThe market didn't have to wait long to see the arriviste's response to efforts to frighten it out of the domestic mortgage market…Sat Oct 30 1999 - 01:00
Ensuring the brokers all play by the rulesIt was to be expected that the removal of rules setting limits on commissions charged by insurance brokers would draw fire from…Sat Oct 30 1999 - 01:00
Monsanto gloom as GM labelling approvedIt's not been the best of weeks for Monsanto, the group indelibly linked with genetically modified organisms.Sat Oct 23 1999 - 01:00
Keeping the consumer in mind on regulationThere has been a lot of talk, including here, about who should control the new single financial regulatory authoritySat Oct 23 1999 - 01:00
JCB takes its worksite style to the catwalkIt may be early but critical decisions on Christmas stock have already been made by retailers and suppliers.Sat Oct 23 1999 - 01:00
Partnership in fight for a futureSo the economists are divided on the merits of any successor to Partnership 2000Sat Oct 23 1999 - 01:00
Clean sweep in DIRT inquiryWhen it was set up, Jim Mitchell expressed the hope that the inquiry by the Dail's Committee of Public Accounts into DIRT evasion…Sat Oct 16 1999 - 01:00
Justice calls on the regulatorWho'd be a telecoms regulator? The week has been one long nightmare for the forthright director of the Office of the Director…Sat Oct 09 1999 - 01:00
Paying the price of new technology's foiblesTechnology is not the universal panacea after all, it appearsSat Oct 02 1999 - 01:00
Dana throws up gap in pension fund protectionIt's not just AIB that comes out of the Dana affair looking the worse for wear; the Pensions Board also seems to have engaged…Sat Oct 02 1999 - 01:00
Defending all but the investorCaveat emptor took on a whole new meaning this week with the revelation from Irish Stock Exchange chief executive Tom Healy that…Sat Oct 02 1999 - 01:00
Tax amnesty returns to haunt politiciansAs Jim Culliton became the first casualty of the fallout from the authorised officer's report into Ansbacher (Cayman) Ltd, it…Sat Oct 02 1999 - 01:00
Chattering classes flock to the InternetHardly a day passes without some report about the myriad uses for the InternetSat Oct 02 1999 - 01:00
AIB in search of lost lustreThe only certain outcome of the inquiry into DIRT evasion by the Dail Committee of Public Accounts is that AIB Bank's public …Sat Sept 11 1999 - 01:00
The Internet bites back at unwary customersIt wasn't a great week for the prophets of the Internet..Sat Sept 04 1999 - 01:00
Directors show way on inflation-busting payAs we sit here, basking in the warm glow of social partnership and low single-digit pay rises, it rankles just a little to read…Sat Sept 04 1999 - 01:00
