Global stock markets ended the week in a sea of red — despite the best efforts and pledges of leading central banks and the IMF to stop the selling panic amid the Covid-19 crisis.

Fears of a world recession came back to haunt global markets, prompting some investors to buy gold and safe but extremely low-yielding government bonds.

DIGI recommended that the government reduce the excise tax on alcohol by 15% over the next two years in order to deal with this issue.

Even though it’s more than a decade since Bertie Ahern harrumphed his infamous advice — “the boom is getting boomier” — the consequences of the madness epitomised by that phrase, and the “soft landings” and “naysayers” slapdowns too, remain chilling, almost as chilling as the idea that a person in his position could so misjudge reality.

No one knows if we are facing into another recession but but if you haven’t looked at the positioning of your own financial products, now is probably a good time to do so, suggests economist Eddie Hobbs.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has warned a disorderly Brexit “could plunge the Irish economy into a recession” and that further surges in Irish property prices could lead to another boom-to-bust cycle.

The primary reason for those working in the construction industry returning from abroad is down to family, an industry survey has found.

Nobel laureate Paul Krugman said the US economy may be heading into a recession at a time when the US Federal Reserve doesn’t have the firepower to properly combat a slump.

The OECD and IMF have kept their forecasts for the global economy largely intact to date, with just slight downgrades to their projections.

The ECB is expected to wait until the fourth quarter to raise its deposit rate, later than thought just a month ago, according to economists who also said the chances of a eurozone recession have grown.

Income loss in the recession led to an increase in depression among young mothers, research has found.

The ECB held its penultimate monetary policy meeting of 2018 last week.

Whether one is a nation, an individual, or a corporation, it does not do to enter a tougher environment without the financial wherewithal and without a plan, writes Kyran Fitzgerald 

More than one in five people experienced enforced deprivation in 2016, despite the upturn in the economy in recent years.

The unemployment rate has fallen to its lowest level since April 2008 — and economists are predicting that the rapid growth in employment is far from over.

It’s a decade since our financial regulators and central bankers were frog-marched into the glare of television studios to reassure a nervous public that our banks were secure.

Giant pension firm Pimco sees a 70% chance the world economy enters a recession over the next three to five years as ultra-loose monetary policy from the US to Europe comes to a halt.

Wage growth is stagnant and worryingly uneven in its distribution as workers struggle to adapt to rapidly evolving world of work, says Stefano Scarpetta.

Recession-hit towns and villages will get access to millions of euro in grants to help support local projects such as hubs, employment initiatives and rural growth schemes.

Fianna Fáil has also done many God-awful things but the fact is they handled the banking crash well, writes Victoria White

Within the last decade alone, tens of thousands of young Irish people have packed their bags for shores unknown.