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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Share purchase schemes are particularly popular with multinationals with a presence in Ireland. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Is an employee share purchase plan worth the investment?

Personal Finance
Dominic Coyle
August 20, 2019, 05:50

Q&A: Dominic Coyle answers your personal finance questions

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Stocktake: Investors take fright as recession risk rises

Personal Finance
Proinsias O'Mahony
August 20, 2019, 05:40

UBS says don’t buy-the-dip

Huawei is preparing for the worst, announcing a new version of its own operating system last week. Photograph: Getty Images

Huawei still on hold in spite of US reprieve

Technology
August 20, 2019, 05:27

The Huawei saga drags on, with the US granting it a second 90-day extension that allows it to keep doing business with US firms

Village Vets managing director Charlie Cosgrave: “I believe in paying a fair price where both parties feel they did well out of the transaction.”

‘The recession made me double think every major spend’

Personal Finance
Tony Clayton-Lea
August 20, 2019, 05:20

Me and My Money: Village Vets managing director Charlie Cosgrave

An Amazon ‘fulfilment centre’ in the UK. The ecommerce company pays staff to tweet about working in its warehouses under ‘ambassador’ accounts. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

Amazon may have learnt a terrifying lesson from its ambassadors project

Media & Marketing
Laura Slattery
August 20, 2019, 05:03

The ecommerce giant tried too hard – the real danger will be when it becomes subtle

Most of the Fanmags – Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Microsoft, Apple, and Google – are “trading at valuations nearly as rich as they have ever traded,” according to investor Rob Arnott. Photograph: Alastair Pike/AFP/Getty Images

Tech stocks: bubble, bubble, toil and trouble?

Personal Finance
Proinsias O'Mahony
August 20, 2019, 05:00

History suggests no market fashion or trend persists indefinitely

If you don’t mind sharing your opinion – and who doesn’t? – there are plenty of opportunities to do so and get paid for it into the bargain. The rate isn’t always great, and some surveys can take up to 15 minutes, but if you do a couple a week the money can build up. Photograph: Getty Images

Click for cash: how to make money on the web

Technology
Ciara O'Brien
August 20, 2019, 04:35

You may not get rich, and it can be hard work, but there are opportunities online

Ollolai, Italy: 'Casa a 1 euro', or 'houses for €1', is a scheme aimed at luring new residents, which allows them to buy a house for the princely sum of just €1.

Eight places that will pay you to move there

Personal Finance
Fiona Reddan
August 20, 2019, 04:35

If you are fed up with Ireland's high cost of living, you can always consider these options

The Bank of Japan’s decision to reduce rates to zero to reboot Japan’s flagging economy in 1999 was seen as radical at the time and looked on by US and European central bankers as a kind of Japanese idiosyncrasy, not to be tried anywhere else

Have central banks maxed out on monetary policy?

Economy
Eoin Burke-Kennedy
August 19, 2019, 17:58

Japan is still locked into its negative regime 20 years since it reduced rates to zero

Fulfil’s entry to the market in 2016 came as traditional snacks found themselves centre-stage in discussion about health and nutrition

Hershey may fulfil Irish snack company’s ambitions for US expansion

Agribusiness & Food
August 19, 2019, 17:08

Sweet deal for Fulfil Nutrition brings a real confectionery heavyweight into its corner

Brexit on the brink: Britain’s economy braces for exit shock

Economy
Chris Giles
August 19, 2019, 12:06

The five key metrics are not pointing to anything good

Think of the scene in the film The Graduate when Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) finds his father’s friends lining up to tell him what to do: ‘There’s a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it?’ They see it as helpful. He does not

Why giving advice is not always the best thing to do

Work
Emma Jacobs
August 19, 2019, 11:42

Talking about our own career choices can make us feel better – or worse – about ourselves

Record low yields are being fueled by rising expectations of policy easing by the European Central Bank. Photograph: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters

These nations faced bankruptcy: Now their bonds yield nothing

Economy
August 19, 2019, 08:52

Where once Spain and Portugal, like Ireland, struggled to attract investors, now investors almost have to pay for the privilege

Sterling doesn’t have the comfort of the dollar’s reserve status. Nor the resilience of the US economy. Photograph: Bloomberg via Getty Images

Chris Johns: UK facing a future as a failed state after Brexit

Economy
Chris Johns
August 18, 2019, 11:45

Hard Brexit on October 31st won’t be the end, merely the start of an even more chaotic phase

In the woods: Killian Scott and Sarah Greene as detectives Rob and Cassie in the BBC / RTÉ / Starz series Dublin Murders. Image: Euston Films.

Dark mysteries and dating advice from your parents: what to expect from Irish television

Media & Marketing
Laura Slattery
August 17, 2019, 15:19

Take a trip to Darklands, the OAP B&B, Trinity or the Rotunda over the year ahead

National Electrical Contractors Ireland this week succeeded in getting in the High Court to stay part of a sectoral employment order for their industry. Photograph: iStock

Electricians threaten to spark crisis in building industry

Construction
August 17, 2019, 06:16

Trade body clears first hurdle in challenge to Government’s sectoral employment order

Sky Sports had the rights to Liverpool’s Friday night clash against Norwich City, but many more fixtures are only on BT Sport or Premier Sports. Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP

Premier League fans don’t gain from Virgin Media’s peace with Eir

Media & Marketing
August 17, 2019, 06:05

Pay-TV company is unlikely to offer BT Sport or Premier Sports to its subscribers

Minister for Transport Shane Ross collecting his electric car in Dún Laoghaire. The Government’s recent climate action plan set a madcap target of 840,000 passenger electric vehicles on the road by 2030. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

Government needs to change gear in electric-car changeover

Transport & Tourism
August 17, 2019, 05:58

We need to hear more from the reasoned and sensible actors in the corridors of power

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