If the decline hits 20%, markets will close for the day.

HAVING a major employer, with 2,500 jobs, over the boundary fence is expected to underpin developer/builder confidence in pursuit of 12.5 acres in two fields, fresh to market, at Grange Cross, Ovens, west of Cork City and Ballincollig.

The $23bn (€18.6bn) debut trading day for Spotify, the music streaming service, helped lighten the gloom for embattled technology shares and gave European stock markets their first lift in over a week.

Last week, the Irish Stock Exchange (ISE) launched its second IPO Ready programme which is effectively a boot camp for companies considering a listing on the stock market. 

Apple’s disappointing earnings matter to more than just the investors who hold its shares.

Aircraft leasing remains at full throttle in Ireland as fresh investment and new orders continue to drive momentum in the sector. 

Last week the New York Stock Exchange, the largest and arguably most influential stock exchange in the world, was closed for a few hours. 

US Treasuries advanced for a fourth day yesterday, the longest winning streak since April, as a plunge in Chinese shares supported demand for the relative safety of government debt.

Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce powerhouse named after a fabled, poor woodsman who discovers a thieves’ den full of treasures, is ready to strike it rich on Wall Street.

Alibaba Group could have sold nearly $2bn (€1.54bn) worth of stock without lifting a finger.

Hemingway had it right on bankruptcy; that it happens slowly then all at once. So too it seems are changes in how the world sees finance. For the best part of a decade now the (final?) flowering of Financialisation has been rampant.

Our Enda; brilliant at opening things in the far flung fields of foreign lands like the NYSE and Penneys, to name but two.

The Irish maker of the mobile game Candy Crush has been valued at around €5bn ahead of its flotation on the New York Stock Exchange.

Global cloud computing and big data leader EMC unveiled an 11% year-on-year rise in fourth-quarter revenues, adding that full-year revenue for 2013 was $23.2bn (€17bn) — 7% ahead of 2012 levels.

Twitter’s shares got off to a flying start on the NYSE, but can the company make money, asks Kyran Fitzgerald.

Twitter soared as much as 92% in its first day of trading yesterday on the New York Stock Exchange as investors snapped up shares in the popular microblogging site in a frenzy that recalled the days of the dot-com bubble.

Shares in Twitter have gone on sale to the public for the first time, instantly leaping more than 70% above their offering price in a dazzling debut that exceeded even Wall Street’s lofty hopes.

Twitter has set a price of $26 for its initial public offering of stock, which means the company’s shares can begin trading today on the New York Stock Exchange.

Last week the Government moved to incentivise growth companies to use Dublin as a platform for expansion through equity finance.

Twitter will be coming off its biggest quarterly loss in the past three years when the online messaging service floats on the New York Stock Exchange later this autumn.

The Irish jobs market has received a much-needed boost with the announcement by international business consultancy firm Accenture of 140 new jobs.

After weeks of conflicting signals about the strength of the US economy, a big gain in the jobs market gave Wall Street reason to celebrate today.

Global sugar prices rose in stock markets yesterday, despite recent industry predictions that the commodity would be kept at a low ceiling until late 2013, at the least, due to a surprisingly strong oversupply from Brazil.

Dublin-headquartered renewable energy group, NTR has completed its exit from the international waste management industry, via the $180m (€131.4m) sale of its Greenstar US business.

Stocks have closed mixed on Wall Street after the market reopened following a two-day shutdown caused by Superstorm Sandy.

London’s FTSE 100 Index powered nearly 1% higher as hefty gains from BP helped it overcome a second day of trading being suspended in storm-ravaged New York.

Manufacturing production in Ireland is still expected to grow by between 2% and 3% this year, despite figures showing a marginal decline in August — the first fall in six months.

Shareholders in the Irish-headquartered FleetMatics are set to partake in the company’s $123m (€95m) IPO on the New York Stock Exchange.

A US-based property investment firm has acquired Dublin’s converted Gasworks building in Ringsend for €40 million, an average of €190,000 per unit.

White sugar fell to a three-month low in London on forecasts for more supplies from Brazil, the world’s largest producer.

Burger King, the world’s number two hamburger chain that is in the midst of overhauling its menu and outlets, said it expects to be relisted on the New York Stock Exchange within the next three months.

Enda Kenny has dismissed as “desperate tactics” Fianna Fáil’s criticism of him for sharing a platform with businessman Denis O’Brien.

Former Tánaiste Michael McDowell has criticised Enda Kenny for appearing in a photo-op in the company of businessman Denis O’Brien.

There’s a great scene in the Oscar-nominated short film Pentecost by Irish director Peter McDonald where the local parish priest gives the altar boys an impassioned pep talk before the biggest Mass of their lives.

DEUTSCHE Boerse won US antitrust approval to buy NYSE Euronext in a $9 billion deal to create the world’s No 1 exchange operator, but the transaction still faces serious regulatory headwinds in Europe.

IRISH pharmaceutical company Elan is to re-balance its share offering; by making its presence on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) its primary listing and Dublin’s ISEQ its secondary listing.

A GROWING concern that the eurozone debt crisis hasn’t been sufficiently dealt with plunged international stock markets into further freefall yesterday evening — with nearly £50 billion (€58bn) being wiped off the value of London-quoted shares and Dublin’s ISEQ hitting a two-year low, as Irish shares lost €1bn in value.

Technology company troubles and renewed concerns about Europe's debt dragged US stocks lower for a second day today.

London Stock Exchange vowed to press ahead with a merger with its Toronto counterpart today, despite the emergence of a rival Canadian bidder.

IRELAND’s low rate of corporation tax has been vital to the country’s economic development “before the EU even came into being,” former taoiseach , John Bruton told a gathering of international business leaders in New York last night.

Leaders of the US and Irish business communities participating in Ireland Day will visit the New York Stock Exchange today.

Up to 20 top business executives will attend the Northern Ireland economic investment conference in Washington DC, it was revealed today.

The New York Stock Exchange is expected to announce today that it is setting up a financial services outpost in Belfast.

THE level of IPO activity — basically firms looking to float on the stock exchange — has all but dried up in this part of the world, with only 50 such moves being made during the first three months of this year and most activity coming from emerging territories.

Royal Dutch Shell, Dong Energy and Scottish Power have cancelled a joint British wind-energy project, the Sunday Times said.

Corporate America was urged today to follow the lead of the New York Stock Exchange and invest in the North.

A stock market gaining confidence in the US financial system bolted higher today, propelling the Dow Jones industrials and Standard & Poor’s 500 index to their first four-day advance since last spring.

Wall Street rebounded today after its biggest sell-off in years amid growing expectations that US politicians will salvage a $700bn (€496bn ) rescue plan for the financial sector.