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1.30pm Markets Wrap: Ryanair and Kingspan down while Smurfit Kappa and Cairn gain ground

Dollar falls while more postive news from China emerges

Markets Wrap: Wall Street loses ground as weak stretch continues

The S&P 500 dropped 0.7%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.6% and the Nasdaq composite ended 1.1% lower

Markets Update: UK and European shares rise as British inflation falls

The FTSE 100 Index advances 1.8% to its highest level in a month

Northern Irish tech firms buck the trend with strong performances

A number of companies are proving that steady expansion can be better than being a ‘unicorn’ in the current climate

Markets: London’s top stocks claw back gains after week of turbulence

Ongoing jitters over US debt somewhat receded on Friday with the government edging closer to a deal before the bank holiday weekend

European markets slip back amid worries over US debt ceiling

London stocks slid on Tuesday afternoon as concerns over the US debt ceiling spilled over into Europe

Weekend US Markets Wrap: Stocks slip as optimism fades

The S&P 500 drop deepened to down 0.7% while the Nasdaq 100 slid 0.9%

Joe Gill: An ‘Irish IPO Fund’ could boost our anaemic stock exchange

Last year, just two Irish companies tapped the stock exchange in this country for equity finance using an IPO. Why is there so little activity, and how can we change that?

Higher interest rates to act as a correction for stocks, Goodbody says

Tech stocks and cryptocurrencies first to lose value as ten-year bull run comes to an end

Why the ‘five-day’ rule augurs badly for markets in 2022

If major US stock-market indices rise during the first five trading days of the new calendar year, markets usually perform handsomely for the year overall

Apple taxes in escrow account losing tens of millions a year

NTMA chief tells Oireachtas PAC that the €14.3 billion held in escrow had been designed by the company and the NTMA to potentially lose €70 million a year, given current negative interest rates

Eugene Kiernan: Evergrande’s money woes have been hiding in plain sight for years

The troubled Chinese property company has had negative cashflow in eight of the past ten years and its total debt now stands at more than $320 billion. Despite an initial wobble, global markets seem relatively unconcerned, but should they be worried?

Buoyant market: Why private equity deals are surging after lockdown

After a brief lull when Covid-19 first hit, the deals pipeline is ‘on fire’ again thanks to a flurry of activity and a raft of investments into sectors considered to be Covid-proof

Brexit will cause Europe to lose share of financial market, Deutsche Bank head says

European capital markets will have to reinvent themselves without the City of London, according to David Feldmann

Bitcoin and Ethereum should weather crypto turbulence, Irish expert says

James Nagle, co-founder of Irish bitcoin exchange platform, says crypto crash should come as ‘wake-up call’ to those investing in less established currencies

Arm of BlackRock builds up €20m short bet that Glanbia shares will continue to fall

Food company’s stock price has swung up and down since start of pandemic with performance nutrition products hit hard

Irish funds industry hits record high of $4.2 trillion, new data shows

Figures compiled by Monterey Insight, an independent fund research company, show the value of Irish-domiciled funds grew by 10.4 per cent to a market size of just over $3.3 trillion.

Analysis: Central banking’s brave new world

The ambition of central bankers once was to ‘be boring’ but they now take on responsibility for policy objectives such as tackling inequality and climate change. Not all onlookers are pleased at this ‘self-defined mission creep’

Comment: Putting brakes on stock trading would make GameStop-type events worse

Slowing or staunching trades through a transaction tax as is proposed in the US would prolong the time it takes for a meteoric price rise to correct itself

Trading places: the rise of the citizen investor

In the gamification of the stock market, increasing numbers of Irish people are playing the markets alone on free apps or in large groups inside private chat rooms such as Discord