Food for thought: three interesting articles about multinationals in Ireland
As an addition to my recent post on exports and multinationals, I wanted to draw your attention to some more information... Are multinationals ...
Foreign direct investment and multinationals – Irish exporters or Ireland-based exporters?
If you have bookmarked the Irish Exporters’ Association website (as recommended in the first post about Irish exports), you might have browsed through their news ...
“Positive bad news”? What exports can and cannot do for the Irish economy…
So we know that exports are good for our economy, and that the Irish are good at selling. But as I said, I don’t ...
Ireland must be doing something right : yet another year of rising exports !
In a recent press conference in Dublin, the Irish Exporters Association announced that export growth results are “bang on target”, as their mid-year press ...
Stay put! Put options: how to use them to your advantage and how to calculate your profit
A put option is the right, but not the obligation, to sell a stock. It is, in essence, an insurance policy on a ...
Paying back Ireland's outstanding debts: the bad, the ugly and the unexpectedly not so bad
On July 15, the NTMA (National Treasury Management Agency) published an information note about Ireland's funding needs. They opened the books, in a way, to ...
Irish bonds downgraded to "junk" status – why you should really take another look.
On Tuesday, credit ratings agency Moody’s announced that it had decided to downgrade Ireland’s rating to “junk” status. Who do they think they are, you ...