Full coverage: USA

The US president's plan would "level the playing field" on corporate tax, making it irrelevant to set its rate anywhere below 21 per cent. This is a challenge, but not all bad news for Ireland, as a reading of Microsoft's latest multi-billion profit posting reveals.

When the Swiss-Irish baking giant was formed 13 years ago, Urs Jordi missed out on the top job. By delivering on his promise to get out of the US, he seeks to get a clean slate – and turn back the clock.

Since the start of the pandemic, the US Federal debt has ballooned. To implement many of the new administration’s longer-term objectives, Congress will have to find trillions in new spending capacity. And they will have to do this against all political odds and market sentiment.

Directing pension savings towards ESG investment in Ireland is no mean feat, but there is now a widely shared expectation that Joe Biden’s election will make it more mainstream – and more profitable.

After a move from Brooklyn to rural Maine, writer Siobhán Brett shares perspectives on the US election from a town where two votes separated Joe Biden from Donald Trump at Friday's latest ballot count.

Three Irish top executives at a major New York construction firm are facing multiple charges brought by federal prosecutors. Their defence lawyer counters that they are being hounded by trade unions baying for “the last ounce of their blood”.

As CEO of Verizon Consumer Group, Ronan Dunne runs the largest division of the world’s biggest telecoms giant. The Dublin accountant and former O2 boss talks about wealth inequality, social capital, and the lessons that shaped his stellar career.

The consequences of the Apple case continue to reverberate, with the recently renamed NortonLifeLock just one of the multinationals changing their corporate structures. After intellectual property transfers and the liquidation of corporate entities straddling Ireland and Jersey, new filings provide the missing piece of the jigsaw in the US online security giant’s Irish move: the consolidation of its global sales empire in a Dublin business park.

Irish entrepreneur Cillian Kieran's data privacy start-up Ethyca has just closed its second funding round. In an in-depth interview, he discusses dealing with investors in Wall St and Silicon Valley, doing business in the US amid a pandemic and civil rights protests – and disputes the suggestion that the liquidation of his previous business was a failure.

The head of global agribusiness Alltech finds himself hosting the first virtual edition of his company’s popular annual industry conference. He discusses how food production can navigate “the next normal”, and why his $3 billion firm remains private even as it enters new areas of digital technology and medicine.