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Europe, US to recover in 2009 - OECD
04.06.2008 23:31
ireland.com
ADVANCED ECONOMIES have survived a “near-perfect storm” in financial markets remarkably well, the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) said yesterday, predicting recoveries in the US and European economies next year without inflation taking root.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
INM releases Harvard study ahead of O'Brien report
04.06.2008 23:31
ireland.com
INDEPENDENT NEWS Media (INM) has moved in advance of a new governance report from “dissident” investor Denis O’Brien to publish favourable findings by a Harvard academic commissioned by its board to assess its governance.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
Remaining 35 staff of Sachsen LB to lose their jobs in Dublin
04.06.2008 23:31
ireland.com
THE 35 remaining Irish employees of German bank Sachsen LB are to lose their jobs after the bank's new owners announced the closure of its Dublin operation.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
O'Connor's new energy venture seeks €200m
04.06.2008 23:31
ireland.com
AIRTRICITY FOUNDER Eddie O'Connor's new venture is set to seek €200 million in funding from private backers and institutions in the autumn.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
Brooks and Tubs Tiles to shed 150 jobs
04.06.2008 23:31
ireland.com
THE MULTINATIONAL owner of DIY and builders' merchants businesses Brooks and Tubs Tiles has announced that it is to shed 150 jobs.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
AIB wins €4.2m judgment over loans
04.06.2008 23:31
ireland.com
THE HIGH Court has granted AIB a judgment of €4.2 million against a Waterford businessman over the purchase of 17 acres of land and the acquisition of a business premises.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
EBS axing 25 jobs to counter rising costs
04.06.2008 23:31
ireland.com
EBS BUILDING Society is cutting 25 jobs from its staff of 655 in a bid to reduce costs amid the property slowdown and credit crunch.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
Rights issue brought forward by UTV
04.06.2008 23:30
ireland.com
NORTHERN IRELAND media group UTV says “potentially worsening financial markets” have forced it to bring forward plans to raise nearly £50 million in a new rights issue.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
High Court appoints interim examiner to engineering firm
04.06.2008 23:30
ireland.com
THE HIGH Court has appointed an interim examiner to Cork-based Howley Civil Engineering Ltd, which employs 430 people.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
Services sector retreated in May
04.06.2008 23:30
ireland.com
IRELAND’S SERVICES sector contracted in May for the fourth consecutive month, with business confidence remaining low, the NCB/NTC purchasing managers’ index published yesterday showed.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
Passenger numbers increase by 3% at Aer Arann
04.06.2008 23:30
ireland.com
REGIONAL AIRLINE Aer Arann said yesterday that its passenger numbers grew by 3 per cent year on year in the first five months of 2008 to 430,100. It also had its best ever May, with passenger numbers up 10 per cent annually to 105,677.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
Good news from US fails to encourage Irish market
04.06.2008 23:30
ireland.com
Iseq: 5,920.59 (-46.57) Settlement date: June 9thIRISH SHARES fell again, closing down 46.57 points, or 0.78 per cent, to 5,920.59, despite a rally yesterday afternoon buoyed by rising US shares.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
Bank uses text messages to support sponsorship activity
04.06.2008 23:30
ireland.com
MEDIA & MARKETING: VOTING CLOSES tomorrow in one of the largest text marketing campaigns conducted in Ireland. In a scheme organised by AIB bank, an estimated 175,000 people have used their mobiles to "vote" on which children's charity should receive money from the bank's Better Ireland programme.
Ireland
Economics & Finance
DREW SHARP | RED WINGS 3, PENGUINS 2 | WINGS WIN THE CUP: Lidstrom leads Red Wings to 11th Stanley Cup
04.06.2008 23:28
freep.com
The Wings became the first predominantly European team to win the Stanley Cup. They became the first Cup winner to not have at least one North American-born player among its five playoff point producers.
USA
Sports
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