Building for growth, capped by caution: The lessons of Dublin Airport

Ryanair won’t rule out full grounding of its fleet. Flutter Entertainment warned of a £90-110 million hit to full-year earnings. Willie Walsh postponed his IAG retirement. But if you want to see the real panic stalking the market, look just what happened to Penneys owner ABF.

The collapse in returns available from fixed income assets is a major challenge, and the coronavirus shock has driven them even lower. Meanwhile, the attraction of positive, growing and sustainable equity income is compelling. Are we on the cusp of a historic shift by long-term investors from Fixed Income to Equity Income?

As pubs pull down the shutters and businesses go into lockdown, there will be little alternative but to run huge deficits and expand the size of the state.

Oil prices may easily decline below $30 per barrel in the weeks ahead. Covid-19 could spread materially beyond Italy, meaning that a whole range of new quarantine measures may be undertaken by the likes of France, the UK and Germany. If this comes to pass, oil prices may decline to the mid-20s.

As a NHS commissioner Audrey Mc Donnell played a senior role in Britain battling swine flu, an influenza pandemic that impacted millions of people globally before it was contained. In her first column for The Currency she looks at the enormous strategic challenge for Ireland of fighting the coronavirus.

Rather than understanding the coronavirus as the death knell for globalisation, I prefer to think of it as an opportunity to consider something new. If we start seeing more global issues come to the fore, Ireland, as a small, open, fragile economy, can be a large part of that new thing.

The employment numbers are not false. But they are selectively biased and are rarely contextualised with other data and with what people are experiencing on the ground. This helps explain the disconnect that was manifest at the recent election.

My mother always told me never to put anything in an email that I wouldn’t be prepared to tattoo to my forehead. Given the level of compliance and confusion around GDPR, it seems my mum was way ahead of the curve.

AIB hit the market in late 2017 in pretty good nick. Net interest rates were high and costs were low. But not long after, the full scale of the tracker scandal hit, along with the general brutality of banking in Europe.

The NDRC exists to support indigenous Irish technology companies. It has invested in more than 280 companies since it was set up 2008. How does its performance stack up against other accelerators and incubators? And how does its operating costs compare?