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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

Vincent Boland

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 3

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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 3

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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 1

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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 3

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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 2

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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 2

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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 2

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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 5

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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 2

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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 1

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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 2

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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 1

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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 3

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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...

20.10.2024 4

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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 1

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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 5

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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 1

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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 3

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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 1

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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 1

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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 3

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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 3

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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 2

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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 4

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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 2

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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 3

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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 1

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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 1

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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 2

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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 1

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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 2

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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...

22.08.2024 1

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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 1

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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

28.07.2024 6

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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 2

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