I’m wired with a ‘glass half-full’ mentality so you will normally find me looking for the positives in both life and business.

The one thing you can be certain of is that the rich will get richer on his watch, writes Fergus Finlay.

I see that I can’t see the Milky Way as I used to. It may be my eyes, but it seems I’m not the only one. 

Pearson’s gone. Valeant says it’s no longer a roll-up company. Their joint contribution to capitalism is profound, writes Terry Prone

The wealth of Denis O’Brien has fallen by $1.1bn (€1bn), but the telecoms businessman still remains one of the country’s richest people, according to the annual Forbes list of the world’s mega rich.

FACEBOOK boss, Mark Zuckerberg seems to have gone bonkers and given away all his wealth — $45bn (€41.37bn) on paper — to a foundation he has set up along with his wife, Priscilla Chan.

“One can’t solve everything,” is a statement akin to heresy when uttered by the immortal Sherlock Holmes (Ian McKellen), but then life is no longer elementary for fiction’s greatest detective in Mr Holmes (PG). 

Using extreme examples of some questionable training regimes, Joe Brolly is tarring everyone with the same brush in an effort to strengthen an argument, writes Dick Clerkin.

The proposals presented by Martin Wolf in ‘The Shifts and the Shocks’ merit close consideration if another crisis is to be avoided, writes economist and former finance minister Alan Dukes

A €14.7m grant from the foundation set up by Irish-American philanthropist Chuck Feeney will help the increasing numbers of people suffering from dementia in Ireland.

The 85 wealthiest people in the world spent $1.8trn on luxuries last year. But what did they buy and for how much, wonders Rita de Brun.

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U2 frontman sings 'Stand By Me' at wedding of billionaire's granddaughter. As you do.

U2 star Bono became a wedding singer last weekend as a favour to a billionaire.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it, according to the legendary investor Warren Buffet.

Mary Regan says Sinn Féin has few answers to the country’s problems, and she is dismissive of our call for a wealth tax (Irish Examiner, Apr 15).

A foul-smelling cloud of gas which wafted over to parts of the South East of England from a chemical factory in France has prompted dozens of calls to emergency services.

WELCOME, then, 2013.

He may have the surname Slim, but his wallet certainly isn’t.

Tuesday’s announcement by Taoiseach Enda Kenny that a referendum will be held on the EU’s fiscal compact had hardly concluded before suggestions were made that we should use the threat of a “no” vote to secure credit write-offs or, at the very least, reduced terms for some of the vast debt foisted on Ireland.

The London market fell nearly 1.5% today after hopes faded that the US would announce more quantitative easing to inject fresh life into its economy.

THE suggestion by billionaire Warren Buffet that the “mega-rich” pay more taxes should be taken up in Ireland and, indeed, across the globe.

LONG before the excesses of the boom, this waterside house on south Cork’s Currabinny Road replaced a simpler, single storey property at Castlerock.

FORTY high skilled jobs are to be created through the establishment of a new specialist international aircraft leasing company in Dublin.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffet believes the US was caught up in mass delusion about the property market, believing prices could never fall dramatically.

AS the last Democratic primary in 2008 was wrapping up and it became clear Hillary Clinton would not be the party’s presidential nominee, Barack Obama ignored the political analysis of CNN in favour of ESPN on the campaign bus TV.

China’s emerging car industry unveiled a collection of new vehicles today at Shanghai’s car show, from electric run-arounds to luxury saloons.

EVEN though the writing was on the wall since the day workers at the Raheen plant in Limerick started training their Polish successors to run the new €200 million Dell plant in Lodz, yesterday’s announcement that 1,900 jobs, and anything up to another 10,000 downstream jobs are to go, is a huge body blow to our economy and our country’s badly shaken confidence.

Manchester United’s embattled sponsor American International Group (AIG) was today granted a $20bn (€14bn) lifeline to shore-up its finances.

COLOGNE Reinsurance, a Dublin-based company at the centre of a worldwide investigation into fraudulent transactions, paid its US parent a dividend of $180 million (€114m) in 2007.

IF Warren Buffet had given his $37 billion to the Irish Government instead of Bill Gates’ charities, it would probably have ended up as tax breaks for the very rich.

IRELAND has three billionaires worth a total of $5.8 billion (€4.9bn), according to the Forbes list of the world’s richest men and women.

US top 20 bank M&T, 22.5% owned by AIB, is set to report a jump in operating profits by close to 17% next week.

ONE of the attributes that separates the business person from the rest is an ability to see beyond the seemingly obvious.

Google today keyed in its intentions to float on the United States stock market – although its debut could still be months away.

West Wing star Rob Lowe may join Arnold Schwarzenegger’s campaign team as the screen tough guy seeks to become California’s Governor.

Leading shares were surging in opening deals, with the FTSE 100 testing the 3,900 point barrier as tobacco and oil stocks advanced, while positive news from Oracle overnight aided second-line technology stocks, dealers said. At 8.59 am, the FTSE 100 index was up 67.9 points to 3,903.1, having earlier touched a high of 3,907.2.