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Currencies, corporate default and China: investors should study embattled Huarong with both interest and trepidation

May 17, 2021 5:15 am Published by Peter Kinsella

In April, the bond prices of a Chinese financial services company called Huarong fell like a stone. Huarong is a... View Article

May 15, 2021 5:45 am Published by Dion Fanning

Who will cry for YMCA Cricket Club? In March, the club, which has played at the Sandymount ground owned by... View Article

May 15, 2021 5:15 am Published by Fionn Davenport

Last Sunday, four days after his 32nd birthday, Rory McIlroy won the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow in North... View Article

May 14, 2021 4:45 am Published by Ian Kehoe

In the coming days, retailers will pull up their shutters and fully reopen for business. But just what sort of... View Article

May 13, 2021 5:45 am Published by Stephen Kinsella

Institutions are often set up with conflicting purposes. One might exist to further the interests of workers, the other might... View Article

May 12, 2021 6:19 pm Published by Ian Kehoe

If investors were hoping to get some clarity today about the status of FBD’s reinsurance cover for business interruption claims,... View Article

May 12, 2021 6:00 am Published by Sean Keyes

Irish people love Stripe, the payments processor founded by the Collison brothers. And Stripe is a great business and all –... View Article

May 12, 2021 5:15 am Published by Thomas Hubert

The starting point for this article was a lobbying return filed by Goodbody Stockbrokers on Monday, disclosing that the firm’s... View Article

May 11, 2021 5:15 am Published by Sinead O'Sullivan

“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads!” Doc of course was referring to the year 2015, when flying cars... View Article

May 10, 2021 6:00 am Published by Ronan Lyons

Picture the scene. It’s the January 2nd, 2021, and an economist – let’s call him R.L. to preserve his anonymity... View Article