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• Business in print this Christmas

  December 21, 2010 @ 3:30 pm | by John Collins

  After a hectic year of bail-outs, company failures and economic gloom and doom we are all looking forward to a little time off over the Christmas and New Year periods.

  This Friday, December 24th, there will be no Business This Week supplement with your copy of The Irish Times. There will however be full business news coverage within the main paper, and we will also have business pages in the paper between Christmas and New Year.

  On Friday December 31st we’ll be publishing our special Business This Year supplement looking back at the year in business and forward to what will hopefully be a better 2011. Normal service resumes on Friday, January 7th when we’ll have our normal Business This Week.

  To all our readers, we hope you have a very Happy Christmas.

• Government investment in the banks?

  October 13, 2008 @ 3:08 pm | by John Collins

  Markets are reacting positively to the series of measures being announced by European governments to shore up their banks. In London the FTSE is up over 5 per cent, the Paris Cac 40 is ahead over 7 per cent, while in Frankfurt the DAX has added over 8 per cent. Dublin’s ISEQ is in positive territory (+3.32 per cent) but the ISEQ Finanical – which tracks the four quoted banks plus FBD insurance and IFG – is down (-1.85 per cent).

  Tomorrow’s business pages will feature full details of the packages today in Britain, France, Germany and Italy. Simon Carswell will analyse the thinking behind the joint European approach and asks if it is now inevitable that the Government will have to take stakes in the banks here. The business team will also be contributing to a preview of tomorrow’s Budget 2009, on what is always our busiest day of the year.