A PROFILE site with 140m frontage to Limerick City’s Dock Road, and in an area earmarked as an economic development hub with docklands focus has been put to market for the Shannon Foynes Port Company.

US stocks ended higher today after the Federal Reserve indicated it is not in a hurry to raise interest rates too quickly.

As president of the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland, I am keenly aware of the challenges and opportunities facing Ireland’s FDI base in 2018.

Limerick has been revealed as one of Ireland’s top performers in terms of new business growth.

A day of modest gains on Wall Street resulted in more milestones for US stocks today as the Dow Jones industrial average closed above 23,000 points for the first time.

Three of the world's top players sit at the top of the Northern Trust leaderboard at the halfway mark.

As he faces into his last day in Cabinet, the Minister for Finance yesterday tore up his ministerial scripts and let rip with the famous Michael Noonan wit.

Limerick is getting a 400-job Brexit bounce from an international finance company diverting jobs from Britain to Ireland.

An international finance expert has played down speculation that the Trump administration will transform the US into potentially the world’s biggest tax haven. Carl Tannenbaum, chief economist of Northern Trust, which employs 16,500 people, addressing a Limerick Chamber of Commerce event yesterday, said the likelihood of a border tax passing was low.

Latest: The food bank at St John's Pavilion in Limerick has run out after handing out 2,500 food bags to struggling families and individuals today.

Northern Trust’s chief economist has cast serious doubt over the possibility of a significant oil price recovery this year as the ongoing price war continues.

The pipeline of additional multinational investment and job creation, for the first three months of this year, is relatively strong, said IDA chief Martin Shanahan yesterday.

Ireland is attracting huge amounts of inward foreign investment, but the country can not take for granted that the flows that helped drive the economy out of crisis will be repeated, a leading economist has warned.

Pádraig Harrington insists he would crawl out of his “death bed” rather than miss the Irish Open from June 19-22.

A €4m, Cork City office investment by a Hong Kong-based buyer, is one of the first significant overseas swoops outside the Dublin office market.

Higher taxes for top earners could put foreign companies off investing in Ireland, Jobs Minister Richard Bruton has suggested.

IDA chief executive Barry O'Leary has said there is scope for further development in the year ahead.

More than 12,700 new jobs were created at IDA-supported companies in 2012.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan yesterday flagged the announcement of 400 jobs for Limerick.

Part of a hospital ward remained closed off today after a suspected outbreak of the winter vomiting bug.

A leading US financial services company is to more than double its workforce at its Mid-West operation.

A leading US financial services company is to more than double its workforce at its mid-west operation.

An elderly patient has died in an outbreak of listeria in two hospitals in the North.

STATE Street Corp, the third- largest custody bank, said profit climbed to $454 million (€358m), or 93 cents a share, from $435m, or 87 cents, a year earlier.

INVESTMENT management company Northern Trust is to axe around 150 positions.

Some 220 jobs are to go at the Dublin branch of American finance company Northern Trust.

Dublin: Bank of Ireland is to sell on its fund administration business, Bank of Ireland Securities Services for a cash sum of €60 million, it said yesterday.

Bank of Ireland is to sell its fund administration business to Northern Trust, for up to €60m.

Phil Mickelson produced an impressive round of 63 at Riviera Country Club to take a one-shot lead after yesterday’s first round of the Northern Trust Open was suspended due to darkness.

The number of health trusts in the North is being slashed from eighteen to five under changes introduced today.

Financial services company Northern Trust Corporation is to create up to 300 jobs in Limerick in a fund administration centre, its second in Ireland.

MORE than 300 new jobs in the financial sector will be announced for Limerick today by Trade and Enterprise Minister, Micheál Martin.

Dutch bank ING yesterday said it was giving up the right to trade any of its businesses as Barings - nine years after it salvaged the UK’s oldest merchant bank from insolvency.

Dutch bank ING today said it was giving up the right to trade any of its businesses as Barings – nine years after it salvaged the UK’s oldest merchant bank from insolvency.

Northern Trust, a Nasdaq-quoted provider of global custody, asset administration and investment management services, has appointed Kevin Hogan and Martin Travers to its Dublin operations team.

KBC Asset Management and Northern Trust’s European Manager of Managers (MoM) business have signed a deal that will lead to the creation of a new jointly-managed MoM pension product.

Northern Trust Corporation today announced that the closing of its acquisition of Deutsche Bank’s global passive equity, enhanced equity and passive fixed income businesses was completed on January 31, 2003.

The Dow Jones industrials came a step closer to 10,000 today, managing a solid rally as reports of US military victories in Afghanistan increased hopes that the worst is over for the market.

A jetliner crash in New York today gave Wall Street a sharp reminder that more terrorist attacks are possible and prompted shaken investors to refrain from any major moves.

Wall Street found some stability today, leaving stocks barely changed following the sell-off last week that sent the major indexes to some of their lowest levels of the year.