EU market watchdogs will launch co-ordinated checks next year on whether asset managers are flouting liquidity rules, after the closure of the Woodford fund in Britain raised questions, a top EU regulator has said.

Architects, tortoises and spaniels have colonised thisend-terrace Cork city home, writes Tommy Barker.

How would the late George Hawkins, car dealer and the previous owner of Camden Lodge, describe his long-time private home and 'forecourt' as it comes up for sale for the first time in decades?

Trish Dromey visits a Georgian home for the modern world in Parteen, Co Clare, on the banks of the Shannon.

It's been a while since the sun shone on Cork’s Sunset Ridge Motel, now derelict, after 40 years of trading and hospitality. The doors shut, and curtains got drawn eight years ago.

Sterling and stock markets showed no panic despite Tuesday night’s political chaos at Westminster, as investors bet that Brexit would be delayed to avoid Britain crashing out of the EU.

The Cork market has stabilised in many ways, but remains dysfunctional, writes Ann O’Mahony.

As the first bankers in Europe’s biggest money laundering scandal get detained by police, the political demand is for a tough response targeting the perpetrators.

Enterprise Ireland is accelerating its focus on the Eurozone market, which represents a potential export market of €38bn.

The pound shrugged off further Brexit developments to notch up a rise on Monday.

The number of homes for sale throughout the country rose 3% in the past year but is half of what was available eight years ago, according to estate agency Sherry FitzGerald.

Another global stock market crash is the single biggest insurance threat to the Dublin economy, potentially costing it around $520m (€440m) per annum, according to specialist insurance market Lloyd’s of London.

The quality of the plantation shutters by the front windows are the first and only real hint of the level of spending and fine material gone into this three-bed quality semi-detached home, from the front door, right through to the back garden’s boundary wall.

Hospital software company Genesis Automation is just the medicine for tracking medical processes, writes Trish Dromey.

The Labour Court has recommended drug giant Pfizer’s 900 strong workforce each receive lump payments of up to €35,000 to compensate for it freezing its defined benefit pension schemes.

’Tis that time of the year when a large segment of the political populous either absconds to Cheltenham or to the four corners of the globe to use the opportunity afforded by our national holiday to market Ireland to a very influential audience.

US stocks resumed their downward trajectory after last week’s selloff, while European and Asian equities also slumped.

The rental market is “in crisis” with landlords likely to increase rents this year by 8% despite rent caps of 4% in urban areas, industry group the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland predicted in key 2018 forecasts, writes Eamon Quinn.

Fr Peter McVerry has said the country is returning to famine times by evicting families and that the Government is not willing to “take on” vested interests to solve the housing crisis.

As we move into autumn, corporate Ireland continues to grow and expand.

Significant Government intervention is needed to bring about stability in the housing market, according to Ireland’s largest estate agency.

Shares fell more than 2% in Applegreen as the fuel and forecourt operator raised almost €47m in a placing of more than eight million shares — around 10% of the firm’s issued prior share capital prior to the placing.

Next Tuesday, August 9, will be the 10th anniversary of one of the events that toppled the Ponzi scheme we had disastrously regarded as an exemplary way of ordering society.

Sterling markets believe the UK is heading toward a hard Brexit in two years’ time and are preparing for a volatile period over the next few months.

Ireland continued to dominate the UK’s beef import market in March, according to the UK’s Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB).

Households in Britain have become more worried about the outlook for their finances in the 12 months ahead as rising inflation puts a squeeze on their spending power, a new survey shows.

A blast at a busy market in Somalia's capital has killed at least 15 people, police said.

A bomb which exploded in a market in Pakistan on Saturday left 20 people dead and wounded at least 50 others, officials said.

Hundreds of mourners have bid farewell to the Polish truck driver killed in the Berlin Christmas market attack.

London's top-flight index has closed at a record high for the second day running thanks to a rally from precious metal stocks.

A man has been found stabbed near Belfast's Christmas market.

British house prices are likely to rise on average by 3% next year as a shortage of new homes coming to the market continues to push up prices, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has said.