Following the judgment, the Department of Agriculture immediately took down the list of those farmers who received more than €1.9 billion in subsidies from the EU last year and said they were taking legal advice. Farmers organizations welcomed the decision and ICMSA secretary general Ciaran Dolan and said that the EU “had been trampling on [...]

PARIS: the Cac-40 index closed dn 8.9 at 3819.4. EUROTOP: the Eurotop 100 index closed dn 3.9 at 2269.2.

PARIS: the Cac-40 index closed dn 2.1 at 3768.4. EUROTOP: the Eurotop 100 index closed up 0.3 at 2242.3.

The ISEQ index of Irish shares closed down 4.08 points to 2,657.08 today, a drop of 0.15%. Among the fallers were Aryzta, down 84c to €32.36; Kerry Group, dropping 30c to €25.55; Kingspan, 21c off at €5.53, and CRH, also down 21c, to €12.14. On the risers’ board, DCC added 17c to €21.22 and Elan [...]

Regulators in the United States have closed two more banks that were in financial trouble. It brings the tally so far this year to 127. The latest failures are expected to cost the Federal Deposit’s Insurance Fund around €74m.

The price of gold has hit a new all time high. The precious metal reached just over $1,300 an ounce during trading at the London bullion market earlier, before dipping back a little. The latest rise has been spurred by caution over the global economy, as well as weakness in the US dollar – the [...]

PARIS: The Cac-40 index closed down 53.1 at 3731.3. EUROTOP: The Eurotop 100 index closed down 31.4 at 2239.1.