Fears of rising costs, the property tax, and unemployment are putting pressure on people’s spending power and keeping consumer confidence low.

Some of Ireland’s leading employers will gather in Dublin’s Convention Centre on Saturday to offer graduates up to 3,500 positions.

The total number of corporate insolvencies has increased slightly compared to last year.

UCD’s Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School has been ranked 88th in the world, according to the 2012 Financial Times Global Executive MBA Rankings.

Consumer spending levels are set to fall by 2% as a whole for 2012 according to latest forecasts.

The Central Bank has ordered all banks to review their contingency plans and payment systems as the crisis at Ulster Bank continues into its seventh day.

A scholarship fund gifted by an anonymous donor will give 12 graduates the chance to attend UCD’s Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School this September.

CONSUMERS need certainty on what’s coming down the track or else they’ll continue to keep their money stashed away.

MINISTER for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Batt O’Keeffe TD, has launched a Government plan to place 50 top-level college graduates in export-led Irish firms.

CASH-strapped business graduates are to be the main beneficiaries of a €500,000 anonymous gift to establish a scholarship fund for masters degrees at UCD’s Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School.

CONSUMER confidence in Ireland is back in line with the European average as house sales increase threefold and shoppers start spending again.

BORD BIA, in partnership with UCD Smurfit School, has announced that 25 of Ireland’s sharpest minds will be offered an exciting opportunity to take part in its marketing fellowship.

CROSS-BORDER shopping cost the Irish exchequer €810 million last year, equal to 3.5% of the retail market.

SHOPPERS are relying less on plastic and switching to cash as credit card spending plunged 15% over the last year.

The Masters in Management degree programme at UCD's Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School has again been ranked in the world’s top 40 by the Financial Times; the only Irish business school to have its programme featured in these prestigious rankings

BORD BIA, in partnership with UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, has created the Bord Bia Marketing Fellowship, which represents an investment of €1 million.

UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School has been ranked 16th in Europe and 44th in the world by the Economist Intelligence Unit’s ranking of the world’s top 100 full-time MBA programmes.

UCD Michael Smurfit School of Business has launched a series of new scholarships for the 2007/8 academic year.

UCD Smurfit School’s Executive MBA programme has been ranked 48th in the world by the Financial Times global executive MBA rankings.

IRISH employers have topped a European ranking for sponsoring students in executive Master of Business Administration (MBA) programmes.