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Vincent Boland: How big drink firms’ struggles are summed up by end of France’s love affair with wine

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Vincent Boland: Trump softens on Nippon Steel deal but the golden share twist raises new questions

02.06.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: The task facing the new leader of the Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk will be formidable

25.05.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: When is a football hooligan no longer a football hooligan?

19.05.2025 6

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Vincent Boland: Weary South Korea dares to hope after court’s verdict on disgraced leader

11.05.2025 8

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Vincent Boland: Warren Buffett has handed his successor a $348 billion problem

09.05.2025 8

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Vincent Boland: Why Meloni should stand clear as Italy begins to stir back to life

The potential banking shake-out is evidence that the economy, long plagued by low growth and high debt, is starting to recover

04.05.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: Carney’s win shows the value of keeping your head as others lose theirs

The new Canadian prime minister needs to pivot rapidly to politics as being the governor of a central bank is not like being the leader of a rather...

04.05.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: ‘Sell America’ – Trump’s chaos sparks crisis of confidence in US markets

The selling wave in the past few weeks represents the results of a rethink – and so far, the wave is not a tsunami, and it is not irreversible

27.04.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: Tributes to late Pope as a great reformer are wide of the mark

Perhaps there was minor progress on the margins, but the Church is more or less the same today as when he was chosen to lead it 12 years ago

27.04.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: Europe and China need to forge entirely new and mature trading relationship

How the Trump administration is acting should be sufficient incentive for Brussels to come to a new arrangement with Beijing

18.04.2025 7

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Vincent Boland: Having overseen 12 weeks of chaos, Trump turns his focus on Fed

Trump cannot fire Powell, because it would be against the law, but consideration for the law counts for little with the President and his cronies

17.04.2025 8

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Vincent Boland: AI can be a useful tool, but can never replace proper journalism

Journalism, which has already been mugged by the digital revolution, seems especially vulnerable to another disrupter

13.04.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: Omnipotent bond market called Donald Trump’s bluff and he was forced to capitulate

The president has destroyed his credibility and there is no coming back from that

10.04.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: Bond market called Donald Trump’s bluff and he was forced to bend the knee

The president has destroyed his credibility and there is no coming back from that

10.04.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: With DeepSeek and BYD, China is well placed to weather trade war with the US

This year alone, two breakthroughs by Chinese companies sent shock waves through stock markets and called into question US tech and industrial primacy

30.03.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: Trump’s weak, incompetent men have disgraced themselves again

If we needed another sign of just how little the US president cares about civil liberties, the Signal message storm has given it to us

30.03.2025 7

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Vincent Boland: Europe’s banks are too numerous to compete

Large-scale consolidation is inevitable and it would strengthen domestic banking markets across the EU bloc

23.03.2025 7

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Vincent Boland: Erdogan seems intent on reversing Turkey’s modernisation legacy

Autocratic leader has triggered political upheaval before and survived, but his assault on Imamoglu feels different, meaning the political stakes in...

23.03.2025 7

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Vincent Boland: Trump’s Voodoo economics could easily talk a recession into being

US President’s America is on a different planet, and mumbo jumbo is its official language

16.03.2025 9

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Vincent Boland: Northvolt’s batteries have finally run dead

Despite its failure, there are other European battery companies that may yet prove more robust and able to challenge China

16.03.2025 8

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Vincent Boland: Epochal shift in Germany’s role marks turning point for Europe

The incoming chancellor’s economic plan is good news for the Ireland and the eurozone, and the goal of independence from the US is likely to be shared

09.03.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: Tipping point could be in sight for Japan’s 7-Eleven chain

The Canadian retail group Alimentation Couche-Tard should know soon enough whether its $47 billion offer for the Japanese retailer will fly

02.03.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: As Trump becomes an adversary, Europe is entering its post-America age

Trump’s first month in office has presented a risk for America, a tragedy for Ukraine, a challenge for Europe, an opportunity for China, and a gift...

23.02.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: How dumb do you have to be to invest in a memecoin?

Political controversies will do nothing for the credibility of the cryptocurrency world

20.02.2025 6

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Vincent Boland: USA Inc risks becoming an accessory to Trump’s wanton destruction

Instead of bowing down, the US financial titans need to stand up to the new administration’s assault on the values of corporate America

16.02.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: Brave Ukraine cannot be betrayed now, having fought with uncommon courage against brutal invader in Putin

It is naive in the extreme to believe that Putin’s concept of peace bears any relation to that of Zelensky – and perhaps even to that of Trump

16.02.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: Breaking up of Honeywell may not be the solution required to revive ailing conglomerate

By the end of next year Honeywell will become three separate companies – aerospace, automation, and advanced materials

09.02.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: Trump is turning America in to the friend from hell

EU’s response to Trump must be unified, coherent and consistent, and Ireland must be fully invested in it

09.02.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: Can yet another strategic review revive the fortunes of Deutsche Bank?

Some momentous decisions may have to be taken if the German bank is to have any prospect of thriving

02.02.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: Ignore TikTok: Trump’s real tech danger lies closer to home

Silicon Valley is on the way to becoming a tool of the right wing oligarchy-party-state over which Trump presides

26.01.2025 20

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Vincent Boland: After 15 years of economic stagnation, the UK is running out of time to turn its fortunes around

The UK economy is 4 per cent smaller since Brexit, while exports and imports are forecast to be 15 per cent lower in the long run

26.01.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: State is now the biggest enemy of progress

The answer is not necessarily to create a bigger Irish state – what is needed instead, and urgently, is a better one

20.01.2025 7

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Vincent Boland: State is now the biggest enemy of progress

The answer is not necessarily to create a bigger Irish state – what is needed instead, and urgently, is a better one

19.01.2025 8

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Vincent Boland: Shorting the market, exposing the truth - Hindenburg signs off

This underdog may be moving on, but frauds, scams and Ponzi schemes are going nowhere

18.01.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: Trudeau ended up being too liberal as he exits stage left

Obituaries of the departing Canadian prime minister were almost uniformly brutal, yet he leaves an honourable legacy

12.01.2025 10

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Vincent Boland: Don’t succumb to pessimism peddled by the world’s richest people

2025 will be a difficult, but that does not mean it will be dystopic

05.01.2025 3

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Vincent Boland: We may have finally heard the last of Madoff’s ‘one big lie’

The final payments to investors of the notorious fraud have been made but the tragedy has claimed victims

04.01.2025 3

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Vincent Boland: The state should become a shareholder in Holyhead

Despite its importance to Ireland, Holyhead has always been the poor relation among Britain’s main ports - that needs to change

29.12.2024 4

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Vincent Boland: Nissan-Honda merger shows new signs of life in corporate Japan

The auto industry is primed for a shake up after a stinker of a year, the Japanese move should be heralded

29.12.2024 4

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Vincent Boland: Irish government must buy stake in Holyhead to avert future trade logjams

Abolishing Dublin Airport passenger cap and securing a stake in Welsh port should be high on the agenda

24.12.2024 4

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Vincent Boland: Israel’s closure of Dublin embassy poses major questions for Irish diplomacy

Perhaps we in Ireland could drop the bogus historical parallels and add a bit more nuance and awareness to our approach to Israel and Palestine

22.12.2024 4

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Vincent Boland: Powell’s passive-aggressive rate cut leaves markets guessing

The Fed Funds rate, as the benchmark is known, now stands at a range of 4.25 to 4.5 per cent, which is the level it was at two years ago

22.12.2024 5

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Vincent Boland: Syria is a 21st century tragedy like no other and its worst days may still lie ahead

Possible silver lining in that the toppling of the dictator was done by Syrians themselves, unlike in Iraq, where Saddam was toppled by the West

15.12.2024 5

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Vincent Boland: Democracy always requires protection, as events in South Korea show

An act of defiance and courage by the country’s lawmakers halted the president’s outrageous attempt to introduce martial law

08.12.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: Trump’s scattergun tariff war is no way for leader of world’s most powerful nation to act

Trump is unpredictable and unfocused, governed by obsessions and whims, and advised by so many competing voices that anything is possible

01.12.2024 4

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Vincent Boland: Northvolt’s bankruptcy signals trouble for Europe’s green transition

Company lacked the corporate structure, managerial heft and engineering expertise required to run a manufacturing operation of its increasingly...

01.12.2024 3

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Vincent Boland: How hubris ran headlong into nemesis at genetics firm 23andMe

Once valued at $6 billion, the firm founded by Anne Wojcicki has had a spectacular fall from grace

24.11.2024 5

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Vincent Boland: New Government must avoid telling pension funds where to put their – which is to say your – money

Local pension funds investing more in local companies and assets is not as straightforward as politicians think, whether in London or Dublin

24.11.2024 5

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Vincent Boland: Italy's oldest bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena sees light at the end of tunnel

Far from the chaos of 2007, Italian banking sector is surprisingly strong and innovative these days

17.11.2024 4

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