RTE Business

The news that the European Central Bank has cut interest rates for the sixth time in the past 12 months is a positive development for Irish consumers and businesses.

US President Donald Trump has said he is pausing some of the sweeping new tariffs on Mexican imports, amid continued trade tensions with Canada and sustained blowback from global markets on his policies.

Apple convinced a New York federal court today to dismiss a copyright lawsuit brought by tech journalist Dan Ackerman, who accused the tech giant of ripping off his book about the landmark video game "Tetris" for a movie on the same subject.

A Department of Foreign Affairs porter who was one of two civil servants sacked in the wake of a data breach and the discovery of an unauthorised computer in the basement of the Passport Office in Dublin in 2022 has lost a challenge to his dismissal.

Skillnet Ireland has named Mark Jordan as CEO.

Volkswagen will focus the sales strategy for its €20,000 electric car coming out in 2027 on Europe, its brand chief said, adding the carmaker needed until then to bring down battery costs to sell it at that price.

Penneys, which operates as Primark outside of the Republic of Ireland, has today opened its first-ever standalone Primark Home store, located on Donegall Place in Belfast.

The Grand Hotel in Malahide in Co Dublin has officially become the seventh property within the FBD Hotels & Resorts (FBDH&R) portfolio.

ICS Mortgages has announced a further reduction in its variable mortgage rates - its seventh successive rate cut since July last year.

Revolut is warning of a rise in ticket scams in relation to rugby matches, saying it recorded a third more ticket scam victims among its customers in Ireland during the last two weeks of February.

Donald Trump's luxury Irish resort has reached a compromise deal with a county council over the erection of temporary fencing at a beach close to the hotel.

Euro zone retail sales unexpectedly dipped in January, adding to signs that a long-predicted consumption-led recovery is not yet on the horizon, fresh data from Eurostat showed today.

The European Central Bank has cut interest rates as expected and kept the door ajar to more.

The European Central Bank has cut interest rates as expected and kept the door ajar to more, even as a looming trade war with the US and plans to boost military spending drive Europe's biggest economic policy upheaval in decades.

BP chief executive Murray Auchincloss took a £2.3m pay cut last year amid a slump in profit at the fossil fuel giant.

The domestic economy grew by a healthy 2.7% last year, according to the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office.

Turkey's central bank cut its key interest rate by 250 basis points to 42.5% today, in line with expectations, sustaining an easing cycle that it launched in December as inflation continues to fall.

Britain's ITV said its Studios production business was performing both creatively and commercially after it delivered record profits in 2024, but it would not be drawn on reports it could spin it out and merge it with RedBird IMI's All3Media.

There was a 48% increase in the number of passenger boardings in areas of Dublin where new BusConnnects routes are operating compared to the rest of the bus network, but there is "significant room for further improvement" when it comes to the punctuality of these new services.

ALDI Ireland has opened its newest store today in Waterford City.