The UK should block any attempt by Germany to shift the headquarters of the London Stock Exchange to Frankfurt after it merges with rival Deutsche Boerse, an MP has said.

It has been quite a week. Students of the dark arts of politics have been left with plenty to savour.

London’s top-flight index sunk deeper into the red as it came under pressure from sliding commodity stocks and a slump from the supermarkets.

A British exit from the EU would wipe as much as £6,400 (€8,144) from average household incomes in the UK as trade deals sour, according to research by the London School of Economics.

Deutsche Boerse and London Stock Exchange (LSE) agreed to combine in a $30 billion (€27bn) deal to create a European trading powerhouse better able to compete with US rivals encroaching on their turf.

The London Stock Exchange and German rival Deutsche Borse revealed plans to save more than €448m a year as they agreed a tie-up to create an exchange giant worth more than €26bn.

The London Stock Exchange is in talks over a possible £20 billion merger with Germany's Deutsche Boerse to create one of the biggest exchange companies in the world.

Irish banks have made progress, but the costs of servicing their high-level of non-performing loans will likely not fall as quickly as they hope, despite the strong recovery, outgoing Central Bank governor Patrick Honohan said yesterday.

Britain scored a rare victory in its bid to challenge European Union powers over the City of London as EU judges sided with the UK in a clash with the European Central Bank on clearinghouses.

The actress announced the new academic centre, titled the Centre on Women, Peace and Security, at the London School of Economics (LSE) yesterday.

Hemingway had it right on bankruptcy; that it happens slowly then all at once. So too it seems are changes in how the world sees finance. For the best part of a decade now the (final?) flowering of Financialisation has been rampant.

It is believed that Grafton will be placed around 200 when the company is listed on the London Stock Exchange, which means that it is eligible for inclusion in the FTSE 250.

Pre-tax losses at Dublin-based exploration firm Petroceltic fell more than 18% last year — a period management has called “transformational” for the company.

The decision to go ahead with a controversial BBC documentary about North Korea went “right to the top”, the corporation’s head of news programming said today.

The US and Japan yesterday offered new talks with North Korea to resolve the increasingly dangerous stand-off over its nuclear and missile programmes, but said the reclusive communist government first must lower tensions and honour previous agreements.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny will hold talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron in London today during one of a series of engagements in the city.

DCC is moving its stock listing to London and cancelling its membership of the Irish Stock Exchange following a review.

Academics can be dismissive of the concerns of the popular media. But when it comes to the growth of the super-rich, the tabloids may have gotten it right.

United Drug will delist from the Irish Stock Exchange on Oct 3 in order to have all its shares traded through the London Stock Exchange in a bid to gain admission to the FTSE UK Index.

Ireland-based healthcare services group United Drug has today announced it will shift its primary stock market listing to London from Dublin.

The Irish Stock Exchange has managed a decent start to the year, but news that another top Irish company is considering switching its listing to London could prove a headache for chief executive Deirdre Somers, says John Daly

Looked at in isolation, the announcement by United Drug that it is exploring the possibility of delisting from the Irish Stock Exchange and moving to the London Stock Exchange makes perfect sense.

The Irish healthcare services firm United Drug announced yesterday in a trading update that it is looking at delisting from the Irish Stock Exchange to move its main listing to the London Stock Exchange.

United Drug is considering de-listing its shares from the Irish Stock Exchange, it emerged this morning.

THIS SUMMER’S London 2012 Olympic Games poses the greatest operational and security challenge the city has faced since the Second World War.

Britain’s biggest banks saw shares slide today as fears over the eurozone debt crisis were compounded by a far-reaching debt downgrade of Spanish banks.

London Stock Exchange shares rose more than 7% after it struck a deal to buy up to 60% of clearing house LCH.Clearnet.

Investors in London and Dublin stock markets have reacted very positively to drilling results issued yesterday by exploration company Providence Resources.

Poverty has been given as the main reason for this summer's riots across England.

London: London Stock Exchange Group Plc is holding talks with LCH Clearnet Group Ltd to buy all or part of the world’s biggest clearinghouse for swaps, as increased global regulation of derivatives makes the business more profitable.

London Stock Exchange, which recently failed to complete a merger with its counterpart in Toronto, said it continued to make good progress on a trading front.

The London Stock Exchange has abandoned plans to merge with the owner of the Toronto Stock Exchange after concluding not enough of the Canadian group’s shareholders would back the deal.

BANK of Ireland said yesterday there is a risk the bank may delist from the ISE and LSE depending on participation in its proposed liability management exercise and rights issue.

London Stock Exchange vowed to press ahead with a merger with its Toronto counterpart today, despite the emergence of a rival Canadian bidder.

A rival bidder was today poised to scupper a £4bn (€4.59bn) merger deal between the London Stock Exchange and its Toronto counterpart.

IRISH engineering services group, Kentz — which earlier this week reported a 52% increase in annual profits — is seeking to switch its primary share listing from the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) to the main list of the London Stock Exchange (LSE).

The London market retreated today as fears over China’s decision to raise interest rates continued to weigh on the minds of investors.

The London Stock Exchange is in advanced talks over a potential merger with Canadian bourse TMX.

THOUSANDS of photographs from a collection belonging to Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw are to be made available to the public online.

COUPLES are less likely to get divorced if husbands help more with housework, shopping and childcare, research revealed.

The London Stock Exchange today announced a deal to acquire its loss-making rival Turquoise.

London's FTSE 100 Index enjoyed a bright start to the week today after nerves were soothed by Abu Dhabi's £6bn (€6.7bn) bail-out of debt-laden neighbour Dubai.