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

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

Euro stocks choppy as election delivers no clear winner on eve of Brexit talks

Retail slowdown may be start of predicted downturn as UK prepares to trigger article 50

Rising bets for Federal Reserve interest rate rise stoke optimism about global growth

For Your Diary: FBD and AIB results; Mobile World Congress; Irish unemployment rate;

Paper packaing group to become fifth Irish-based company on blue-chip index

Paper packaging group on track to become fifth Irish-based group in key index

Paper packaging giant vies with Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust to qualify

British equities reverse losses as retailers put in strong performance

Eoin Tonge to replace Alan Williams as Greencore chief financial officer next month

UK builders’ merchant points to weaker demand before and after June vote

Chemicals firm Evonik and big healthcare stocks among the worst performers

ECB president’s signal that stimulus will continue gives boost to markets

Builders merchanting group points to ‘siginficant increase’ in Irish revenues

Euro falls 1% to seven-week low against dollar as European Central Bank reduces rates to record low

Concern that impasse over the US budget and debt limit may lead to a default

Smurfit Kappa a highlight as Dublin holds up against negative European backdrop

Iseq slightly ahead of European markets but broadly in line with activity on the FTSE