BlackRock’s Gordon Ibrahim is bailing out on the pound. 

Access to credit for businesses and confidence in the survival of the euro are the greatest impediments to job creation, Taoiseach Enda Kenny admitted.

The world’s major economic powers are pledging to launch a bold effort to deal with a chronic slowdown in growth and a European debt crisis that are threatening to push the global economy into another recession.

MICHEÁL Martin cut a lonely figure as he walked down the Leinster House plinth in search of a bench.