Your business this week: Irish unemployment figures, BoE rates decision and Starbucks results

Few customers actually use salad cream on salads, research finds

Market report: Trump reportedly wants to block German luxury cars from US market

Results due from Apple, Merck, Pfizer, Aon and Tesla, McDonalds and Trinity Biotech

This Week: Checkout Conference 2018 to focus on planning for challenging times ahead

This Week: Airline’s first-half results will reflect investor jitters. Also: AIB’s egm

Kellyanne Conway values 100 per cent stake in firm at between $1 million and $5 million

Apple results; Irish unemployment indicator; and UCD seminar on algorithmic consumers

Firm now worth more than Walmart, General Electric, Pfizer and Kraft Heinz combined

This week’s major business events: BP results; Irish unemployment rate

Current White House staff’s net worth is thought to be the richest in US history

Buffett, who sits on Kraft Heinz’s board, wants to keep his reputation for saintliness

The story behind the failure of Kraft Heinz to win over the Anglo-Dutch giant

Five new CEOs of Top 1000 companies on driving performance, inspiring leadership and asking tricky interview questions

Equity trades up 26 per cent last year to 5.6m, Iseq index ends 2015 up 30%

New figures show 1.4 million equity trades carried out on ISE in third quarter

Deal would create $275bn company responsible for one in every three beers globally

Kraft Heinz, a new company formed by the merging of two food staples, has begun trading on New York Stock Exchange

Warren Buffett has $24 billion stake in company

Yorkies are less thick than they used to be, a box of Surf washing powder has become lighter, and a bar of Imperial Leather soap is 20 per cent smaller

This week: Luxury property, businesses that serve all and ‘Dot Everyone’

Company returns to Ireland in its bid to right its size

New scheme adds another string to bow of southern milk producers in their battle to keep out northern milk