Sunday 19 May 2013
Invest NI has said it helped fund more jobs in local businesses than foreign firms over the last 12 months. In its end of year results for 2012-13, the economic development agency said its work had resulted in 7,400 jobs being promoted – up 14% on the year before.
The new boss of insurance giant Aviva has failed to quell shareholders' anger as he faced them for the first time since their rebellion forced out his predecessor.
A booming financial services sector doesn't just have a place in the City of London, the UK's Minister for Europe has said on a visit to Northern Ireland.
Home repossessions have remained near five-year lows as record-low interest rates help owners stay in their homes.
Sony is back in the black for the fiscal fourth quarter, recording a 93.9bn yen (£611m) profit, with big help from a weaker yen that boosts overseas earnings.
BT is waging a price war with rival BSkyB by offering free Premier League football for its broadband customers.
Northern Ireland will have the chance to sell itself to business leaders from India at the end of June when around 300 delegates from the region arrive in Belfast.
A fifth generation family of fishmongers is celebrating after landing a deal with supermarket giant Tesco.
Bombardier has posted a 25% rise in year-on-year profits for the first three months of this year, crediting a strong performance in its aerospace division and healthy sales of the new CSeries jet, the wings of which are made in Belfast.
Lloyds Banking Group came under attack for cutting hundreds more jobs and planning to close a large office.
The bid to lower corporation tax in Northern Ireland "has not been completely shelved" according to the UK's Minister for Europe.
More than half of employers have recruited someone who did not fit into their organisation or performed badly, according to research.
The number of people placed in permanent jobs by recruitment agencies has increased for the seventh month in a row, but temporary billings have fallen, according to a study.
A Lisburn firm which specialises in eco-friendly fuel cleaning systems, has won new business worth more than £250,000 and is becoming established in key markets such as the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland and Finland.
Premier Inn and Magherafelt construction firm Conway Group is bidding to build a 82-bedroom hotel and 190-cover Brewer's Fayre restaurant on the site of the old Bangor Leisure Centre on Castle Park Avenue.
Emerging-markets bank Standard Chartered has shocked investors with news that profits for the first three months of the year were "slightly down" on a year ago.
The financial world matched the disappointment of Manchester United's fans on hearing the news of Sir Alex Ferguson's departure.
Shares in Providence Resources have risen after the company posted a loss for the year but looked forward to production at its exploration licences around Ireland.
The European Central Bank still has room to manoeuvre should the eurozone economy continue to worsen after it slashed interest rates to a new record low last week, ECB policymakers said yesterday.
Toyota's profits more than doubled to £2bn in the January-March quarter as cost cuts and better sales worked with a weakening yen to add momentum to its comeback.
A well-known Belfast nightspot has gone on the market with a price tag of £300,000.
Budget airline Ryanair pilots have been told not to sign a letter to airline regulators expressing concern that the airline’s employment practices could jeopardise passenger safety.
NORTHERN Ireland's construction firms should continue to look to emerging markets for opportunities, the head of a professional organisation said.
THOMAS Cook took another step towards calmer waters be announcing a £425m fundraising with shareholders in a bid to cut debt.
A local independent specialist tour operator has launched a new dedicated air holiday division.
Not actually Balmoral in Belfast – that's the smell of leafy streets and manicured lawns – but the new, vast Maze site where the show of the same name was in full swing.
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