Stocktake: Playing poker with the day traders

Traders could have made a large return recently by betting on bankrupt stocks

A long way from Tipperary to being a judge in Perth

‘When I moved to Australia I was single and it helped that I met my wife two years after I arrived’

A Different Drummer by William Melvin Kelley: The new ‘Stoner’?

Rediscovered classic from a black American writer imagines a different Deep South

European corporate results fail to impress investors

Iseq off by 0.14% on Thursday while pan-European Stoxx 600 down by 0.2%

Adolf Hitler’s phone sells for €228,000 at US auction

Red phone has Nazi party symbol and Hitler’s name engraved on the back

Stocktake: Stocks propped up by buybacks binge

European shares led lower by commodity stocks

Iseq ends lower with Bank of Ireland, Applegreen and Aryzta among the fallers

Virginia islanders dispute climate change as water rises

Locals see island’s problems as generations-old loss of land due to erosion

US takes Russia’s crown as biggest oil and natural gas producer

Shale revolution is having a ‘profound’ effect

Maureen Dowd: Be warned, young people have strokes too

Fit, healthy and not one to overindulge, my niece Tara was an unlikely victim

European stocks little changed after rally

Ryanair drops 2.7 per cent, reflecting weakness in aviation stocks across Europe

The US right’s new reason for opposing action on climate change: it’s Marxist

Justice Scalia’s criticism of an attempt to curb pollution gives a taste of what’s to come

Steady day on markets with little stock-specific news

CRH closes unchanged in Dublin as Bank of Ireland treads water