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The dollar retains the upper hand on foreign exchange markets, with the currency hitting three-year highs on a trade-weighted basis in recent days.

US conglomerate Cargill will launch plant-based hamburger patties and ground “fake meat” products in April, the company has said, challenging Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods for sales in grocery stores, cafeterias and restaurants.

A third of the cost of us producing a house is taxed, or controlled by the state, between Vat and planning contributions.

Italian authorities are scrambling to contain the virus in largest outbreak outside of China

Irish homeowners could shave 10 years off their home repayments by switching mortgages and keeping their repayments at the same level

'>The jobs are to be created over the next three to five years, with the company set to grow its European Technology Hub in Dublin.

'>Bank of Ireland says it has no plans to engage in a price war with AIB.

However, it said the high street giant is currently ‘well stocked with cover for several months’.

A CBI report is calling on the Prime Minister to ensure a deal with Brussels minimises bureaucracy.

The online cryptocurrency Bitcoin was in the news recently when, as part of a CAB investigation into the sale and supply of drugs, a man was made to forfeit Bitcoin worth €52m by the High Court.

Those funny little things called algorithms are transforming our lives. They are being used to counter the spread of antibiotic resistance. They are also transforming relationships in the workplace and not for the better, many believe.

Development company Tower Holdings are moving ahead with plans for the 15-storey Prism office building in the centre of Cork.

Ireland continues to have a two-tier tourism industry with the regions bearing the brunt of the slowdown the Irish Hotels Federation (IHF) has said.

The week ahead may be pivotal for investors and businesses monitoring the deadly coronavirus outbreak — including Irish companies whose supply chains stretch into China — as they scramble to understand whether the economic fallout will be long-lasting.

Caseys Furniture and Cork English College were the big winners at the Cork Business Association’s ‘Cork Business of the Year Awards’, which were held at their annual President’s Dinner at Cork’s Vienna Woods yesterday.

The Ryanair chief executive questioned why taxpayers had to come to the rescue of a company owned by three of the industry’s richest billionaires.

Significant investment in infrastructure is needed if Cork is to act as a true counterbalance to Dublin, the Construction Industry Federation has said.

A global stock rally was stopped in its tracks after new concerns flared that the coronavirus could spread significantly beyond the locked-down cities at the epicentre of the outbreak in China.

There was little sign of any significant consumer spending upsurge, with spending last month little changed from January 2019.

Nineteen members of staff made redundant by the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) last year shared €1.01m in redundancy payments.