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A third of consumers in Ireland would put off saving to buy a house in favour of medium to short-term satisfaction, new research shows....
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Building materials giant CRH has reported higher revenues and earnings for the third quarter of 2024 and reaffimed its guidance for the full year....
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Japan's Nissan has today announced various cost saving measures including 9,000 job cuts and slashed its annual outlook for the second time in a row this year, as it continues to battle headwinds in major markets such as China....
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Sweden's central bank cut its key interest rate to 2.75% from 3.25% today, as expected, and said that if the economic and inflation outlooks remain the same it may also cut the rate in December and in the first half of 2025....
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Norway's central bank held its policy interest rate unchanged at a 16-year high of 4.5% today, as unanimously expected by analysts in a Reuters poll and reiterated that it will stay on hold until the end of the year....
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Wall Street reached record highs yesterday and major stock markets around the world surged, while bitcoin hit an all time high and the dollar was set for its biggest one day jump in four years after Donald Trump was elected US president....
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As the world's most popular office software marks 40 years of cells and rows, why do we keep making the same mistakes with spreadsheets?...
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Joerg Kukies, a member of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats and a close ally of the chancellor, will be named Germany's new finance minister, government sources said today....
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British supermarket group Sainsbury's has today kept its forecast for full-year profit growth of up to 10% as it reported a 3.7% rise for the first half, with robust grocery sales offset by a weaker performance in general merchandise....
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British house prices hit a new record high in October but the 0.2% rise from September was the smallest in three months and demand could remain subdued if interest rates fall only slowly and as taxes on home-buyers go up, mortgage lender Halifax said....