A grim set of annual figures from British Airways sent the stock nose-diving into the red today and overshadowed more stable trading elsewhere.

RaboDirect.ie announced this week its April 2007 Fund of the Month as the Blackrock Merrill Lynch IIF India fund.

Stocks plummeted today, briefly hurtling the Dow Jones industrials down nearly 550 points as Wall Street succumbed to a global market plunge sparked by growing concerns that the US and Chinese economies are cooling and that equities prices have become over-inflated.

WALT DISNEY, the second-largest US media company, said first-quarter profit more than doubled on asset sales and income from last year’s two biggest-selling DVD releases, Pirates of the Caribbean and Cars.

Wall Street retreated today as investors, worried that fourth-quarter earnings might not meet heightened expectations, decided to cash in some of their recent profits.

ITALY’S biggest food company, Parmalat Finanziaria, may seek bankruptcy protection from creditors this week after the disclosure that a $4.9 billion bank account didn’t exist.

Investors were spared more stock market turbulence today after a rollercoaster week ended in lacklustre fashion.