High street clothing stores Brown Thomas, Arnotts, and Zara are the latest retailers to be hit by the spread of Covid-19.

The English Football League is to suspend all fixtures until April 3.

Bayer said it was targeting growth in adjusted core profit of 7% to 9.6% this year, driven by sales of agriculture products and pharmaceuticals, despite facing multiple legal cases in the US over cancer claims.

Barclays chief executive Jes Staley is being investigated over his ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, his second run-in with British regulators since he joined the bank in 2015.

Britain’s major supermarkets are forecast to report lacklustre Christmas sales this week, reflecting weak economic growth and comparisons with generally solid festive results in 2018.

Tesco will next week become the first major British supermarket group to offer a subscription customer loyalty scheme, the latest weapon in its fight to stem the market share gains of German-owned discounters.

Lloyds Banking Group has suspended its share buyback after a last-minute rush of compensation claims for mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI), taking its total costs for the scandal to £21.8bn (€24.4bn).

British banks have defied the Brexit gloom to increase their profits by a third, outpacing the Eurozone, according to new figures.

Boeing shares fell as much as 3% yesterday after the US aviation regulator found a new flaw in the 737-Max jet, potentially delaying the aircraft’s return to service and piling more pressure on the planemaker’s suppliers.

Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banking Group (CYBG) — which is headed up by former AIB CEO David Duffy — has laid out plans to challenge Britain’s big banks, betting that a re-brand as Virgin Money and growth in business banking will help it to shake up the market.

Michael Healy has been appointed as general manager in the Republic of Ireland for Deliveroo, the food delivery app service.

UK retail banking customers enjoy the benefits of a highly competitive market which has seen aggressive pressures on mortgage pricing, personal loan pricing, and savings rates.

Posh crisp maker Kettle could be sold after its US food giant owner Campbell hired advisers to assess the future of the snack brand.

Ulster Bank’s profits improved in the first quarter of the year, but ongoing Brexit uncertainty and heightening competition in the UK has increased the pressure on its parent Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).

Shares in Tullow Oil fell by over 2% after the Irish-founded exploration company slightly downgraded its production expectations for this year and said progress on highly-anticipated project work in Kenya could be delayed.

Concerns persist for the hundreds of staff employed at 16 Debenhams stores in the Republic and the North as Debenhams said it was trading as normal despite its UK holding company going into administration.

Michael Noonan, the former finance minister, said he is confident Irish exporters will be “able to cope” in the event the UK crashes out of the EU with no Brexit deal.

In January last year, IDA Ireland announced record results with nearly 230,000 people now employed in FDI companies.

Boeing and Brexit vied for attention on global financial markets, as sterling slumped as the political woes of UK prime minister Theresa May appeared to deepen, while the planemaker’s shares came under renewed pressure after countries closed airspace to the 737 Max.

UBS has received approval from a London court to move up to €32bn in assets from Britain to Germany as part of plans to keep business in the EU after Brexit.

Table for one? It’s a dreaded phrase for many, with dining solo among top peeves cited by business travellers.

The euro could strengthen should ECB president Mario Draghi stick tomorrow to indications that monetary policy could be tightened next year, just as the US central bank’s interest-rate path is thrown into doubt.

AIB fared relatively better than its main rival Bank of Ireland in so-called stress tests conducted on large European banks by regulators, but the outlook for their shares will likely remain clouded for some time.

Netflix shares pared their worst drop in two years, regaining a key support level for the stock.

Dublin-based video game content provider Keywords Studios has bought Hollywood, California-based production services company Blindlight for a maximum consideration of up to $10m (€8.5m).

Barclays has said a London court has dismissed all the charges against the bank and its parent company over a 2008 capital raising with Qatar, in a big win for the lender that has been dogged by legal issues for a decade.

Dublin office rents are back at boom-time levels of 2007 but are “not going anywhere too quickly”, despite demand fuelled by Brexit and foreign direct investment, says Green Reit chief executive Pat Gunne.

The UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has charged Barclays Bank over a $3bn (€2.44bn) loan given to the State of Qatar as part of a side deal linked to its emergency fundraising in 2008.

The US is being viewed as the next area of consolidation for European betting companies, with markets anticipating gambling legalisation to sweep the country over the next few years.

The US Federal Reserve has raised interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point but left its rate outlook for the coming years unchanged even as policymakers projected a short-term acceleration in US economic growth.

Sterling went on a roller-coaster yesterday falling back sharply as high hopes for a Brexit deal were dashed, while US and European shares surged following the US Senate weekend vote to approve president Donald Trump’s tax-cutting bill.

Britain’s banks all avoided bills for more capital in annual stress tests for the first time since 2014, but the Bank of England warned of pain ahead if there is no Brexit deal and said the country’s current account deficit posed a big risk.

The country’s financial institutions are getting a good kicking — perhaps deservedly so.

PCP Capital Partners, the investment firm run by British businesswoman Amanda Staveley, is interested in bidding around £300m (€340m) for Newcastle United after owner Mike Ashley put the Premier League club up for sale, according to a source.

The first great GAA summer of controvassy — or conspóid, as we have decided it should be written, by rule — has finished up in the style to which we have rapidly become accustomed, writes Larry Ryan.

Sterling strengthened against both the euro and the dollar after UK retail sales rose more than forecast in August, boosting investor expectations that the Bank of England will raise borrowing costs in the coming months.

The pound was heading towards 15-month highs against the US dollar following stronger than expected UK retail sales data.

Jondol Furniture directors, John and Dolores Quinn, have been adjudicated bankrupts by Ms Justice Marie Baker, in the High Court, on foot of a petition by the Revenue Commissioners.

European stocks yesterday fell as Thursday’s terror attack in Barcelona weighed on investor sentiment, the Ftse 100 coming under pressure from falls among consumer giants, financials, and airline stocks.

A drop in life expectancy has enabled Legal & General to release reserves against mortality risk, driving first-half profits up by an above-forecast 27%.

Ireland could be a location choice for firms in the burgeoning financial technology (fintech) industry post- Brexit, according to a report from KPMG.

A rosy forecast for iPhone sales that helped push Apple’s stock to a record high edged chief executive officer Tim Cook closer to reaching the top threshold for his 2017 performance award.