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The Tánaiste has said that tariffs are "bad news" for consumers in Europe, Ireland and the United States.

Euro zone inflation was lower last month than first estimated, mostly because of a revision in Germany, Eurostat said today, easing concerns that unexpectedly strong price pressures could prevent further ECB interest rate cuts.

Financial Services Ireland (FSI), the Ibec group that represents financial services companies in Ireland, has appointed Irish Life chief executive Declan Bolger as its new chair.

Customs advisor BDO is urging businesses that export to the US to lobby the EU to get their products removed from tariff lists.

The state pension is now a mere part of a wider financialised portfolio, made up of other investments and private pension plans

Avant Money has announced its newest mortgage product - the Flex Mortgage - a variable rate mortgage with rates starting from 3.31%.

Households are being advised to switch and save in advance of upcoming broadband, TV and mobile price hikes.

The UK arm of Spain's Banco Santander said today around 750 staff could lose their jobs as it unveiled plans to close a further 95 bank branches in Britain, raising fresh questions about the scale of the lender's UK presence.

Drugmaker Pfizer has sold its entire stake in Haleon for about £2.5 billion to institutional investors and the consumer healthcare firm at 385 pence per share, a bookrunner for the deal said today.

Wall Street heavyweight Morgan Stanley is planning to lay off about 2,000 employees later this month, a person familiar with the matter has told Reuters.

Siemens will cut 5,600 jobs at its Digital Industries business, the engineering company said today, in the latest blow for German industry shaken by weak demand at home and abroad.

The Bank of Japan left its key interest rate unchanged today in a widely expected move given the global economic uncertainty fuelled by US trade tariffs.

Five years on from the Covid-19 pandemic, a working model that was borne out of a public health emergency has been embraced by thousands of employees who have no desire for things to go back to the way they were.

Americans who come to live in Ireland, as well as returning Irish citizens whose licences may have expired, still have to retake driving lessons and re-sit their tests, due to a lack of a reciprocal drivers' licence exchange.

The Central Bank has reduced its forecast for economic growth for this year due to rising uncertainty caused by the trade war between the US and EU.

Revenues at one of the largest McDonald's franchise operators in the country, Aarval increased by 16% from €40.27m to a record €46.93m in 2023.

Apple has lost its challenge at Germany's top civil court against its classification as a significant market power, a label which gives antitrust regulators more scope and flexibility to scrutinise its business practices.

Nicolai Tangen has been appointed to a second term as CEO of Norway's vast sovereign wealth fund, Norges Bank Investment Management, the central bank said today.

Canada's annual inflation rate showed a surprise jump to 2.6% in February, surpassing expectations as a sales tax break that ended in the middle of last month pushed prices higher amid an already broad-based increase, data showed today.

A female care assistant at the Rotunda Hospital who claimed she was forced to quit because its management let a porter who sexually harassed her stay on staff is to appeal a tribunal ruling rejecting her claim for constructive dismissal.