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Bord Bia has announced its international trade programme of activity for this year, including trade missions and trade shows across China, Europe, Japan, the US, and South East Asia.

Oil prices were largely stable today, as investors weighed up signals of a Gaza ceasefire against the reality on the ground in the Middle East.

Macy's forecast annual sales below market expectation on weak demand for its apparel and shoes and said it would close 150 stores up to 2026 in a new turnaround plan.

A teacher at a Dublin secondary school has claimed at the Workplace Relations Commission that she was unfairly penalised by the school principal to punish her for signing a collective grievance, which raised staff concerns about student discipline problems and other matters.

Facing consumers who are fed up with having to plug in their phones all the time, device makers are racing to develop more potent batteries that can charge faster and last longer.

Tech companies are showcasing countless connected gadgets at the world's biggest wireless telecom fair, the four-day Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, which wraps up on Thursday.

New preliminary estimates from the Central Statistics Office show that average weekly earnings stood at €921.81 in the fourth quarter of 2023, up 2.1% compared with €902.56 in the fourth quarter of 2022.

UK clothing and food retailer Marks & Spencer said today it would give around 40,000 store workers a 10.1% pay increase from April 1, a move that reflects the rise in the UK government-mandated minimum wage.

ALDI Ireland today confirmed it is opening a new €6.8m store in Granard in Co Longford next year.

German consumer sentiment is expected to stabilise at a low level in March as households are confronted with great uncertainty due to constantly rising prices and a weaker outlook for Europe's largest economy, a survey showed today.

Ireland hopes to tap sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East to invest in infrastructure projects as the government seeks to keep pace with its fast growing population.

Dublin-headquartered medical device company Mainstay Medical has raised $125m through an equity financing round.

The boss of consumer electronics firm HTC has welcomed Apple's launch of its own a mixed reality headset, saying it will help the technology take off and become mainstream.

Dublin-based bodycam company HALO has announced that it has closed a $20m funding round with US growth equity firm, Volition Capital.

Google plans to relaunch in the next few weeks its AI tool that creates images of people, which it paused last week after inaccuracies in some historical depictions, Google Deep Mind CEO Demis Hassabis said.

The German reinsurer Munich Re today said it posted a 12% fall in net profit in the fourth quarter, a drop that was not as steep as analysts had expected and a result that helped the company surpass its full-year earnings target.

Japan's core consumer inflation slowed for a third month in a row in January but beat forecasts and held at the central bank's 2% target, keeping alive expectations it will end negative interest rates by April.

Puma said today it expects a soft first half of 2024 as negative currency effects continue to put pressure on the German sportswear company, but stuck to the annual targets it gave in January.

Healthcare services group Uniphar has reported higher revenues and operating profits for the year to the end of December and said it was making further progress on its financial and strategic objectives.

The commercial property vacancy rate nationally has increased to its highest level since GeoDirectory started tracking the data a decade ago.