THE Irish Stock Exchange’s new specialist market will start off with eight companies when it opens for business next month, it was announced yesterday.

The Irish Stock Exchange is to launch its new market, the Irish Enterprise Exchange (IEX), on April 12. IEX is a new market especially designed for small to mid-sized companies.

THE Irish Stock Exchange’s specialist market for smaller companies will open for business next month, it emerged yesterday.

The ISEQ ended the week on a negative note today as it fell 7.15 points to 5586.04, with the biggest falls recorded by building group Abbey and pharmaceutical firm Warner Chilcott.

House-builder Abbey is to move its listing from the Official List of the Irish Stock Exchange to the Developing Companies Market of the Irish Stock Exchange, the company announced this morning.

The ISEQ index of Irish shares fell 11.80 points to 5581.39 today, with the biggest fall produced by building group Abbey, where shares were down by 30 cent to €8.15.

E-learning company Electric Paper, which is part of Thirdforce, announced today the roll-out of an ICT literacy programme across 50 schools in Australia. The project, which is the largest of its kind in Australia, will take place in schools in the Broken Bay Diocese, North of Sydney.

DCM Group, Digital Communications Management, which supplies and supports technology communications tools, has announced that it has strategically sold its voice maintenance base in Ireland to Diacom. Diacom is an Irish telecommunications systems supply company. The value of the deal was not disclosed.

Digital Communications Management (DCM) today announced it has installed and commissioned a major new telephony solution for Mayo County Council.