Investors in global stocks and Irish shares, in particular, will learn this week whether the growing fears over escalating trade wars will send markets reeling again.

Ireland will be the worst hit economy in the eurozone if the US-China trade spat broadens to envelop Europe, according to a leading economics group.

Confusion surrounds billionaire Oleg Deripaska’s position on the board of Russian aluminium giant Rusal, the owner of Aughinish Alumina in Limerick.

President Donald Trump insists he is "not backing down" on his plan to impose stiff tariffs on imported steel and aluminium despite anxious warnings from House Speaker Paul Ryan and other congressional Republicans of a possible trade war.

US stocks powered to their biggest gain in almost nine months as drugmakers and technology companies surged.

Google is willing to pay more tax globally says its chief executive Sundar Pichai, said at the World Economic Forum, as talk was on the tone of the “America First” speech that US president Donald Trump will deliver at the Davos summit in Switzerland.

The date of Brexit will be written into law in an effort to placate British MPs who are worried that the Government could attempt to delay the UK's break away from the European Union.

US and Chinese companies have signed business deals the two sides say are valued at $9bn during a visit by American leader Donald Trump, in a move aimed at blunting criticism of Beijing’s trade practices.

It's more than 1,000 years since King William the Conqueror of England commissioned the Domesday Book, a record of “The Great Survey” of much of England and parts of Wales to establish “how many hundreds of hides were in the shire, what land the king himself had, and what stock upon the land; or, what dues he ought to have by the year from the shire”. 

Donald Trump's commerce secretary has held out the prospect that Airbus's acquisition of a majority stake in Bombardier's controversial C-Series jet programme could have an impact on US tariffs on the plane which threaten jobs in Northern Ireland.

A major international leak of more than 13 million files - known as the Paradise Papers - reveal how the super-rich invest vast amounts of money in offshore tax havens.

Airbus has acquired a majority stake in Bombardier's C Series aircraft programme, the companies have announced.

One of Northern Ireland’s largest employers is facing a proposed 300% duty on its exports of planes to the US amid an international trade dispute, the US government said yesterday.

The European Union has been urged to step in and help resolve the aerospace trade dispute threatening hundreds of jobs in the Belfast factory of plane-maker Bombardier.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May is "bitterly disappointed" by a US Department of Commerce decision to impose a tariff of nearly 220% on a new model of passenger jet manufactured by Bombardier, one of the North's biggest employers, Downing Street said.

Four thousand of the wealthiest, most influential leaders in the world descend on Beverly Hills, California, this week for the annual Milken Institute Global Conference, in what amounts to a peer review of President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office.

The US president has publicly criticised his chief strategist, but it is the latter’s feud with Trump’s son-in-law that may push him out of the inner circle, says Shannon Pettypiece

Despite a conciliatory meeting over the week end in Mar-a-Lago with Chinese Premier Xi Jinping, US president Donald Trump will still relish an opportunity to chop down on imports from China and any other country with which there is trade imbalances, as he pursues his major campaign promise to tackle the $500bn (€472bn) trade deficit and bring back jobs to US soil.

Richie Boucher yesterday announced plans to step down from the top job at Bank of Ireland which he has held since the height of the banking crisis, indicating the lender was all but restored to full financial health. A search for his replacement has already begun.

Some predicted a win for Trump would spook the markets but Tom Metcalf and Jack Witzig found the prospect of a businessman in the White House just helped the rich grow richer.

Donald Trump's new trade chief has urged Britain's rivals to take advantage of the "God-given opportunity" of Brexit to take business away from the UK, it has been reported.

Kyran Fitzgerald says that rather than drain the swamp as he promised in his election campaign, Donald Trump will actually bring more alligators with him next month.

Stock markets have taken a breather while bond yields rose, as traders assessed the likely speed of US rate hikes under Donald Trump’s White House and awaited clues to future policies from the choices for his new cabinet team.

Shares in Bank of Ireland plummeted almost 9% yesterday on the back of Canadian insurer Fairfax Financial Holdings selling half of its 5.8% stake.

US billionaire Wilbur Ross, who made a €500m profit buying shares in Bank of Ireland at the height of the country’s financial crisis, has ruled out investing in Permanent TSB, the only Irish lender to fail European stress tests last month.

Permanent TSB is likely to tap private investors before AIB early next year, though there is little chance that both state-owned banks will weigh on each other’s prospects of raising equity, according to analysts.

THE first real signs that the Irish banking system was in deep trouble appeared on March 17, 2008.

KKR and Colony Capital are the most likely investors in Permanent TSB when it raises capital following the results of the stress tests, according to a source.

Bank of Ireland has made a profit for the first time in five years.

The property market continues to heat up as Green REIT spent over €300m, Bank of Ireland investor Wilbur Ross announces a property joint venture and CBRE bring the €6m Donnybrook Mall to market.

US investor Wilbur Ross has ruled out a future investment in AIB, although he is looking at other possible investments in Ireland.

The value of Bank of Ireland shares dipped today following Wilbur Ross's decision to sell his stake.

Bank of Ireland has said it is grateful to US billionaire Wilbur Ross, who is selling his remaining stake in the bank.

Bank of Ireland has said it is grateful to US billionaire Wilbur Ross who is selling his remaining stake in the bank.

Siemens, Europe’s largest engineering company, is close to finalising an agreement to sell its logistics and airports unit to a group led by billionaire investor Wilbur Ross, as it exits underperforming businesses, two people familiar with the talks said.

The country’s 1.6m households will know how much they can expect to pay in water charges before next May’s local elections, the Taoiseach has told the Dáil.

Bank of Ireland shares dropped over 10% in trading yesterday as two of its biggest shareholders offloaded just under one-third of their stake in the company for over three times their original investment.

Bank of Ireland is close to raising €500m to €600m through a share placement in order to part refinance the Government’s €1.8bn preference shares that have to be redeemed by the end of next March, according to sources.

“Any psycho can keep on cutting costs,” according to Bank of Ireland CEO Richie Boucher who said the bank was trying to balance cuts with investment to sustain the recovering Irish economy.

There is a fascinating piece in the latest issue of The Atlantic magazine called ‘Stop spoiling the shareholders’.

“A lack of professionalism in senior circles,” is how Bank of Ireland CEO Richie Boucher described the contents of the Anglo tapes.

Nama may be viewed by international investors as a good idea. Whether its efforts to generate revenue from risky assets can be a template for other countries remains to be seen, writes Dara Doyle