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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

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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

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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

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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 6

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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 10

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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 vast...

01.12.2024 10

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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 20

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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 10

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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 10

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Vincent Boland: Trump eyeing up more disruptive and costly confrontation with China than ever seen before

President Xi Jinping believes the US is a declining force and China’s historical and cultural destiny will surpass it

17.11.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: The timing couldn’t be worse for Germany’s political crisis

Europe’s largest economy faces months of chaos following chancellor Olaf Scholz’s sacking of his finance minister

10.11.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: Don’t say you weren’t warned about Trump’s fascism – he told us himself

The Republican candidate is set to to pursue an economic agenda that will risk the world economy falling apart

06.11.2024 8

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Why Elon Musk is the most likely candidate to take reins of Trump’s Maga empire

If Kamala Harris defeats Donald Trump on Tuesday, what happens to Trumpism, America First, and the Maga movement?

05.11.2024 10

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Musk the most likely candidate to take reins of the Maga empire

If Kamala Harris defeats Donald Trump on Tuesday, what happens to Trumpism, America First, and the Maga movement?

03.11.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: Don’t say you weren’t warned about Trump’s fascism – he told us himself

The Republican candidate is set to to pursue an economic agenda that will risk the world economy falling apart

03.11.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: Death of Fethullah Gülen a reminder of dark night for Turkey in 2016

Eight years later, the night and the event are still shrouded in conspiracies on all sides and his death will not change that

27.10.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: Ending of tax breaks for the rich could see bloated private equity sink or swim

Despite soaring stock markets, the trillion-dollar private equity industry is the beached whale of the financial markets

27.10.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: Origins of next debt crisis lies in countries on which heaviest burden falls

The IMF calculates the debt owed by governments will reach $100 trillion or 93 per cent of global GDP by the end of the year but the level of debt to...

20.10.2024 5

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Vincent Boland: Richard Conroy was one of Ireland’s most indefatigable business leaders

He survived a succession of boardroom bust-ups and clashes with shareholders, including a particularly bitter one with oil explorer Tony O’Reilly

17.10.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: Richard Conroy was one of Ireland’s most indefatigable business leaders

He survived a succession of boardroom bust-ups and clashes with shareholders, including a particularly bitter one with oil explorer Tony O’Reilly

17.10.2024 7

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Vincent Boland: For Google, it’s been a week of Nobel prizes and corporate challenges

Good news from Oslo and bad news from Washington summed up the internet giant’s week

15.10.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: Pfizer’s activist investor adds insult to injury for an ailing pharma giant

Pfizer was riding high during the pandemic but has been overtaken by rivals including Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk whose weight loss drugs have left...

13.10.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: If war erupts between Israel and Iran, nobody can stop it

The United Nations is powerless, and neither Europe nor the Arab world has much influence in Jerusalem and Tehran

06.10.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: US unions are looking to have it both ways in presidential election

Teamsters’ failure to endorse one or the other candidate suggests O’Brien lacks the courage of his convictions.

06.10.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: Barely two months in office, Starmer and Labour are really struggling

Rachel Reeves, in particular, risks coming across as Mrs Scrooge, so downbeat and gloomy has she been about the state of the national finances

29.09.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: Intel is in trouble and it can do very little to change that

Leixlip-based tech giant’s stock price has fallen by half even though the Nasdaq market is at record levels

29.09.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: Fed rate cut example of how central banks left wrong-footed

Instead of hanging on their every word, it is time for investors to become a bit more sceptical about the view of Central Bankers

22.09.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: Embarrassing setbacks hamper Bank of London’s bid to crack staid British market

Set up in 2016 by Anthony Watson, the bank has endured a torrid time

22.09.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: A tilt at Commerzbank is a logical move for UniCredit’s Andrea Orcel

The Italian bank already has a big presence in Germany through HVB

15.09.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: Europe can’t put off restructuring its equity markets any longer

There is a growing sense that the continent’s equity markets are not working for Europe’s economy, companies and investors

15.09.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: By blocking Nippon Steel’s bid for US Steel, Kamala Harris is storing up trouble

The Democratic candidate’s opposition to the deal is as shameless as Donald Trump’s

08.09.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: Flashing red lights at VW are about a lot more than falling car sales as Germany flounders

After thirty years of stability since the fall of the Berlin Wall, voters are moving to the extremes, triggered by immigration and chronic economic...

08.09.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: Nvidia, OpenAI and the mysterious artificial intelligence ‘revolution’

The trouble with the AI revolution, of course, is that nobody quite knows when or how it begins, or whether it has begun already

01.09.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: Pavel Durov's arrest could reshape social media regulation

For too long governments have been browbeaten and brainwashed into accepting that social media is exceptional by armies of lobbyists

30.08.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: Global markets hold their breath as Mrs Watanabe bets on Japan's revival

The weakness of the yen, the strength of the Tokyo stock market and the corporate reforms are bound to have consequences

25.08.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: Death of Mike Lynch a terrible tragedy

British tycoon was one of the victims of the sinking of the luxury yacht Bayesian off the coast of Sicily on Monday, after it was struck by a violent...

22.08.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: How to defenestrate your CEO and why Tesla should

Starbucks have booted their chief executive as part of a much-needed overhaul, and Tesla should be considering the same

18.08.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: Ukraine’s move into Russia does not end the war, but it certainly changes it

Zelensky and the Ukrainian people are showing remarkable resilience and resourcefulness in the fight against the occupying forces

18.08.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: Not even LVMH, the luxury behemoth, is immune to the market’s weakness

The French conglomerate says sales are still growing, but at a slower pace than expected

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Vincent Boland: Are the Republicans really done ‘catering to Wall Street?’

Comments by JD Vance, Donald Trump’s vice-presidential pic, give an insight into what we can expect should the pair win the White House in November

28.07.2024 20

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Vincent Boland: Welcome to the new chief executive of HSBC... and good luck

The banking giant suffers constant distractions from outside events and protagonists even as it concentrates on its day job

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Vincent Boland: This bull market is phenomenal but exceptionally vulnerable

The departure of JP Morgan’s chief strategist after a series of mistimed calls shows few can predict the current market, but that does not mean it...

20.07.2024 20

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Vincent Boland: Iran has a chance to increase freedom, but changing its stance on terror is unlikely

The victory of reformist Masoud Pezeshkian over the hardline conservatives’ nominee has been seen as a sign of moderation in the extremely clerical...

14.07.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: Paramount takeover saga tells the story of Hollywood: the sequel

The iconic studio was blindsided by Netflix, which has disrupted the movie business as much as Amazon disrupted the retail industry

13.07.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: Banning non-compete clauses would mean open season for poaching specialised staff

A US ruling sounds good in principle but would be unhelpful in practice and remove the right of companies and their employees to forge their own deals

08.07.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: Far right advance is not a crisis for EU democracy, it’s a crisis for capitalism

The resurgent right wing across Europe and the US have one thing in common — hostility to free markets and open economies

07.07.2024 10

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Vincent Boland: Julian Assange is free but free speech has been damaged

Proper journalism cannot survive without leaks, and leakers

30.06.2024 20

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Vincent Boland: Upcoming election will end a terrible period of mis-government for our British friends

A reflection from our columnist of his time stationed in London for the Financial Times and his views of the forthcoming general election

30.06.2024 20

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Vincent Boland: Elon Musk’s $56bn pay deal shows just how far removed Tesla’s board is from reality

Executives at the EV firm may come to rue the day they signed off on such an extraordinary package

23.06.2024 10

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