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Minister for Finance Michael McGrath has said that the changed inflation environment will influence Budget 2025 decisions.

Shares in French luxury group Kering fell 8.5% this morning, after the company said it expected a 40%-45% plunge in first-half operating profit.

London Stock Exchange Group shareholders will vote today on whether to potentially double the pay of CEO David Schwimmer, after the 300-year old bourse campaigned to raise executive rewards to strengthen UK capital markets.

Lloyds Banking Group saw pretax profit slide by 28% in the first quarter, as rising costs, peaking interest rates and intensifying competition in the mortgage market hurt income.

Heineken sold more beer than expected in the first quarter, reporting its first quarterly year-on-year growth in volumes in a year as it stuck to its forecast for profit growth in 2024.

Negotiators from 175 countries have begun talks on a proposed global treaty to reduce plastic pollution, which is currently found everywhere from mountain tops to ocean depths, and in human blood and breast milk.

Kerrygold brand owner Ornua has reported lower turnover and operating profits for 2023 due to the challenging market conditions that the Irish dairy industry faced last year.

AIB said it raised €625m yesterday from the issuance of a new bond to institutional investors which offered an interest rate of 7.125%.

Tesla said it would introduce "new models" by early 2025 using its current platforms and production lines as it retreated from more ambitious plans to produce an all-new model that had been expected to cost $25,000.

Representatives from unions including the NUJ, SIPTU, Connect and Unite are due to appear before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Media to discuss 'Governance and Culture Issues' at RTÉ. Arts and Media Correspondent Evelyn O'Rourke looks at what is expected at the hearing.

Ireland has fallen four places to rank 36 in the most attractive countries for professionals across the world to work.

Consumers want to make sustainable choices but cost and other practicalities take priority, new research shows.

Carbery Group, the West Cork-based international ingredients, flavours, and a cheese producer, has reported a drop in group turnover and operating profit for the year ended 31 December 2023.

The National Union of Journalists is expected to tell the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Media that the voice of RTÉ staff "has been missing from discourse" about the series of scandals that have hit the broadcaster in the last year.

New laws to tackle money laundering, terrorist financing and sanctions evasion are due to be voted on by the European Parliament.

New laws to tackle money laundering, terrorist financing and sanctions evasion are due to be voted on by the European Parliament.

Employment and social welfare supports during the Covid pandemic helped to stabilise the labour market but inequalities persist according to a new study.

French luxury group Kering expects a 40% to 45% plunge in first-half operating profit, it said today, after first-quarter sales declined as wealthy shoppers curbed spending on products from its star label Gucci.

95% of service professionals in Ireland using artificial intelligence (AI) say it saves them time, according to a new survey from software company Salesforce.

The owner of Tara Mines, Boliden has secured planning permission to develop a €20m 18MW solar farm on an 84 acre site adjacent to its zinc mine site in Co Meath.