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Vincent BolandThe Business Post |
Single market on which its economy is built needs a complete rethink if it is to compete with a booming US and a surging Asia
India is changing at extraordinary speed and has more billionaires than anywhere except the US and China
Demand for interest cuts in election year likely to see economy take centre stage in UK and US races
With the possible exception of inflation, AI is the number one factor driving investor sentiment in the stock market but regulatory demands are...
The revolution might not be going to plan, with a drop in EV sales worldwide raising questions about the shift to greener travel
Israel is quickly losing any international sympathy and support it had after the Hamas terror attack on October 7
New regulatory probes have raised the prospect that the best of times may be over for Big Tech
Public service broadcasting is in financial crisis. Now is the time to consider what it is actually for
Bankers are fighting back against the latest efforts to regulate them, but their special pleadings are becoming tiresome
The former – and possibly future – US president is attracting support from the monied classes
The market shrinkage is mostly a western, mainly European phenomenon, while markets in Asia continue to grow
The US and the UK have over-reacted with these displays of performative pandering to political lobbies and snubbing of allies
Crypto universe is shrouded in mystification, boosterism and investor credulousness
Its economy recently kept the world ticking over but it has faced a series of downturns that mean a new path must be found
From being the jewel of Asia, these days Hong Kong’s status as a world-leading financial centre is diminishing at an alarming rate
The tech company at the centre of the artificial intelligence revolution, has seen its value soar seven-fold to its level today of $2 trillion
The wait is over for investors as stock market finally surpasses high last achieved in December 1989
Tide has turned in Russia’s favour on second anniversary of Ukraine invasion, Europe must now respond to help Ukraine prevail
The world has gotten used to the deadbeat developer-turned-politician talking trash, but his comments last week still shocked
As climate change accelerates and the green transition becomes more urgent and costly – farmers are at the coalface, whether they like it or not
The Meta founder has matured as a businessman and grown as an adult, but what investors love is the dividend
He gets away with it because he is surrounded by acolytes and a supine board but that will not last forever
There are enough reasons for angst in Europe’s largest country but growing support for the AfD is the gravest threat facing it
The country’s rise to be one of the two superpowers is the most important development of the 21st century
Whatever the eventual outcome, though, the affair of the UK Post Office and the Dodgy Computer System is a salutary, heartrending and profoundly...
One of Boeing’s problems in the past two decades was that its engineers were no longer in charge
Apple’s shares tumbled 4 per cent after analysts at Barclays, an investment bank, took a look at the company and went ‘meh’
There will be lots of drama and psychodrama in those contests from the US to Europe and here at home
As the head of Fed tells investors the fight has been won, the concentration of value in a handful of tech giants is risky and problematic
Academia should be able to say uncomfortable things but on some issues, particularly antisemitic, absolute clarity is necessary
EU leaders will meet in Brussels this week, where the agenda could hardly be more pressing nor the backdrop more gloomy
The British government is absurdly over-invested in keeping the Elgin Marbles, and too ready to rely on colonial-era legislation to do so
Under the surface, Javier Milei, the TV personality who has just been elected president, looks alarmingly similar to the authoritarian Juan Perón
There have been sighs of relief all round as Central Banks take the foot off the pedal of interest rate rises, but America is still on a scary...
The upcoming Apec summit presents an opportunity for Xi and Biden to approach relations with realism and sobriety
How the Labour leader handles accusations of giving a free pass to the Israelis will be a vital test
Chevron and Exxon’s $120bn megadeals were part of a massive pushback against moves towards clean energy, but only on one side of the Atlantic
No election in Europe in 2023 is more important than the one that just happened in Poland, where conservative Jarosław Kaczyński’s failure is good...
In its response to last weekend’s terrorist attack, the Israeli government must target Hamas rather than a civilian population of millions
What we saw on Tuesday is the latest evidence that Ireland remains an outlier on the world economic stage, as it has been for at least two decades
Extremist GOP rhetoric poses a bigger threat to western unity on the war than any rumblings in Europe
As Armenians flee Nagorno-Karabakh, it’s time to reiterate that properly integrated and settled, immigrants are an economic and social benefit to...
Modernity may be alien to the Irish bureaucratic and policy mindset, but we must embrace it if the capital is to fulfil its potential as a truly...
Both leaders are isolated and desperate, but the North Korean dictator has far more to gain