Confidence is an intangible, but powerful, agent in the economy.

British companies are more worried about Brexit than at any time since the 2016 referendum decision to leave the EU, and they plan to reduce investment and hiring, a survey of chief financial officers shows.

The social media giant has unveiled Libra, a cryptocurrency payment system that, if it fails, could take down the global economy. Governments must intervene, says Katharina Pistor.

Balancing the highs and lows of John Delaney's tenure as FAI CEO.

Ten years ago this month, the financial world was rocked by the collapse of a Wall Street giant.

Some 10 years ago, Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. On September 29, 2008 the Irish Government announced a blanket guarantee of all the liabilities in the Irish banking system.

Ms Lagarde said that the failure to learn the right lessons from the 2008 banking crisis means that "murkier activities" may slip by unchallenged.

We will soon mark the 10th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers — the event that more than any other sparked what has now become known as the Great Recession.

A decade after completion, and having weathered the economic crash, Cork’s iconic Elysian tower and its 211 flanking apartments are now fully occupied.

A decade after completion, and having weathered the economic crash, Cork's iconic Elysian tower and its 211 flanking apartments are now fully occupied.

Ireland’s tallest building, the Elysian Tower in Cork city, is expected to fetch more than €100m when it goes on sale in the coming weeks.

Ireland’s tallest building, the Elysian Tower in Cork city, is expected to fetch more than €100m when it goes on sale in the coming weeks.

The price-tag for actor and comedian Pat Shortt’s home has been further reduced to €1.2m — less than half its purchase price of €2.7m during the boom.

The title of novelist Edna O’Brien’s 1965 book, August Is A Wicked Month, may carry more than a little relevance for nervous investors around the world this year.

Over the course of 2015, energy prices dropped a stone bringing huge short-term benefits, in the process, to the Irish economy. Over the past few months, however, this trend has gone into reverse.

Hedge fund manager David Einhorn has built a reputation on his ability to crater a company’s stock.

Hedge funds, insurers, and other companies that do business with Wall Street megabanks will pay a price for regulators’ efforts to ensure any future collapse of a giant lender doesn’t tank the entire financial system.

Falling prices are less of a threat to global economies, but will pose challenges as political instability hits corrupt governments that control much of the world’s oil, writes Harold James

One of the biggest worries about this month’s sudden seizure in world markets is how puzzled investors have been left by it, and how many are just wishing it away as a temporary blip.

Ireland is considered the birthplace of aircraft leasing and is recognised as the number one location globally in the sector.

The challenges ahead are great, but with the right policies, leadership and co-operation, they can be managed to the benefit of everyone, says Christine Lagarde

THE European Commission has finally come to recognise the blindingly obvious: the EU’s banks are neither ready, willing nor able to become the engine for future economic growth.

Isn’t karma a funny thing? For the last few years the people of Greece have had to endure insufferably patronising moral lectures from Germany about how dysfunctional Greece is and if only it was more like Germany, life for Greeks would be so much better.

Government, in the interests of the workers of this State, should also take action when it appears to be clear that a company is restructured to avoid paying its employees or its suppliers, writes Paul Mills

READERS may well have found the novel that captures the spirit of Ireland’s post-Celtic Tiger recession in Paul Murray’s The Mark and the Void, set in Dublin two years after “the collapse of Lehman Brothers finally ignited the bonfire that was the Irish economy”.

The government’s chief legal expert during the crash has confirmed that officials were “constantly” discussing five specific ways to cope with crisis from November 2007 and knew the risk was “systemic” from April 2008.

Greece’s creditors, including the ECB, have not slammed the door shut on doing a deal in the next few days as the country appeared to be rushing towards default and a euro exit.

Central Bank governor Patrick Honohan made his infamous RTÉ call confirming a bailout to quell “alarm”, despite claims it was to “undermine” the Government’s position and help a de facto ECB “financial coup d-état”.

Greece has met its creditors’ demands more than halfway. Europe and the troika should now abandon damaging demands and work with Greece for all our sakes, says Joseph Stiglitz.

Six years, seven months, and 13 days after Lehman Brothers Holdings filed for bankruptcy, its former chief executive, Richard Fuld Jr, is still insisting it did not go broke.

Ireland would have taken “decades” to recover if the controversial blanket bank guarantee was not introduced in September 2008, the then governor of the Central Bank has claimed.

The former governor of the Central Bank says the ECB warned Ireland not to allow Anglo Irish Bank to collapse like Lehman Brothers.

Marriage Equality Referendum is ‘about us. It’s not going to affect anybody else’; Judge discharges foreman of jury in Sean FitzPatrick trial; and a video of the demolition of Páirc Uí Chaoimh. Just some of the latest and most read stories on irishexaminer.com.

Irish banks need to further strengthen and improve their capital levels given the risk of contagion across the eurozone banking sector, which remains as underestimated as it was prior to the financial crash of 2008.

The US Supreme Court yesterday allowed Barclays to claim about $4bn (€3.6bn) of disputed assets as part of its hurried purchase of much of Lehman Brothers Holdings’ brokerage unit at the height of the 2008 financial crisis.

Europe’s money market funds will not have to hold costly capital to shield them from financial shocks following a vote by MEPs to soften proposed new rules for the trillion-euro industry.

So the ECB has finally made its move. Mario Draghi has “done what it takes”, writes By Kyran FitzGerald. 

As European Central Bank policy makers gather for their first meeting of 2015, the backdrop is a 0.2% annual drop in consumer prices, the first in more than five years.

The European Central Bank has bought covered bonds for the first time since president Mario Draghi unveiled an asset purchase programme last month.

Ireland, home to almost a third of the European Union’s €1 trillion money-markets industry, is set to oppose EU plans to make funds build up cash buffers against future crises.