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State set to increase budget ceiling for long-underfunded fiscal watchdog
6+ hour, 27+ min ago (149+ words) State set to increase budget ceiling for long-underfunded fiscal watchdog'The Currency A draft bill to increase the budget of the long underfunded Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (Ifac) is currently making its way through the Oireachtas. The heads of the Finance…...
Fiscal responsibility versus political imperatives: Rewinding the week that was
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (304+ words) Ian Kehoe is an award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster. In 2014, at the age of 34, he was appointed editor of The Sunday Business Post newspaper, a position he held for the next four years. During that time, he was a board…...
Travels with Looby: Part three – In search of some answers
1+ week, 5+ day ago (250+ words) Global equity expert John Looby writes on the financial markets. Utilising three decades of trading experience, he provides the inside take on equities, the fixed income markets and the dynamic between money and politics. John joined KBI Global Investors in…...
A crisis-era trade, a €36m paper loss, and a 19-year tax battle
2+ week, 15+ hour ago (300+ words) Ian Kehoe is an award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster. In 2014, at the age of 34, he was appointed editor of The Sunday Business Post newspaper, a position he held for the next four years. During that time, he was a board…...
Travels with Looby: Part one – In search of some answers
2+ week, 15+ hour ago (249+ words) Global equity expert John Looby writes on the financial markets. Utilising three decades of trading experience, he provides the inside take on equities, the fixed income markets and the dynamic between money and politics. John joined KBI Global Investors in…...
The banker who outran bombs, kidnappers, and Barings
2+ week, 1+ day ago (187+ words) Is that Peter Coogan with you?" I had just arrived at a city-centre restaurant and spotted my friend " a man well known in banking circles " seated with several of his colleagues. The question caught me slightly off guard. I had…...
John Looby: We should consciously fight our risk aversion
3+ week, 2+ day ago (250+ words) Global equity expert John Looby writes on the financial markets. Utilising three decades of trading experience, he provides the inside take on equities, the fixed income markets and the dynamic between money and politics. John joined KBI Global Investors in…...
Dan O’Brien: Checks, balances – and growing trade imbalances
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (145+ words) Dan O'Brien: Checks, balances " and growing trade imbalances'The Currency Tariffs and trade are back in the news. Last Friday's decision by the US Supreme Court to strike down Donald Trump's liberation day tariffs was momentous. It was the clearest sign…...
Some ambition, please: Peter Kinsella on the new national savings and investment scheme
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (213+ words) Peter Kinsella is the Global Head of FX Strategy at Union Bancaire Privee, one of Switzerland's largest private wealth managers. Peter has an in depth knowledge of financial markets with a specialisation in FX derivatives, having worked for over 15 years…...
He vowed to revive RadioShack and Pier 1. Investors say they were swindled
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (157+ words) He vowed to revive RadioShack and Pier 1. Investors say they were swindled'The Currency Taino "Tai" Lopez was living proof the American dream was still attainable for young men willing to bet on themselves. The entrepreneur hosted parties at a mansion…...