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Great news, but we ain't out of dippy-do
The downturn with a difference just keeps on giving. Despite a few signs of economic impetus, the economy is still stuttering along at the bottom but amazingly unemployment is proving robust.
IT and science jobs will save us from crashing
The recent raft of job announcements in the IT sector would make you think that we all need to retrain as masters of the control/alt/delete buttons. Certainly we seem to be setting ourselves up as a global IT hub and any school students wondering what subjects to take at GSCE, A-Level or at university could do worse than to veer in that direction.
Rosey or rough, who's got it right?
It looks like the bulls are going to have to get back in their pen while the bears take charge again. Such a bearish opener comes after the International Monetary Fund put its size tens into the growing feeling that we're on the road to recovery.
If we pay, then big business must also
The furore surrounding the fact that big businesses goes to great lengths to reduce its tax bill could be viewed as slightly baffling
Raising a toast to revolutionary King
Just when we thought the green shoots of recovery had wilted, been clamped in a silo and turned to silage, the one and only Mervyn King steps forward to sprinkle his magic dust over the UK economy.
Jobs joy has set stage for the G8
You can tell it's going to be a big announcement when the combined journalist, security and civil servant gathering generates something of a party atmosphere.
Working breakfast is food for thought
Early mornings are apparently when the most efficient and effective work gets done, or so I was told as a lackadaisical teenager with a penchant to lie-ins.
Silver lining among the cloud of economic data
IT'S that time of the month when business desks like ours get bombarded with lots of data.
What happens after the gold rush is over
Henry Kelly used to tell us to go for gold but today you could be forgiven for thinking you missed that boat.
We might have to bear this market for a while
It's said that trying to find the bottom of a bear market is a fool's game. But, when you've experienced one of the most prolonged periods of economic contraction in a lifetime, you need to do something to wash away the pessimism.
An unspectacular Budget ... but one that works for us
As the dust starts to settle on Budget day, there's time to reflect on how Chancellor George Osborne's hour in the spotlight will really affect us in Northern Ireland.
Leave emotions aside to learn a lesson in reality
The subject of integrated education can, understandably, be an emotional one which attracts plenty of debate.
Belfast plant should shrug off the drop in earnings
While the news of a drop in earnings for Bombardier might come as something of a shock, the results aren't a great worry.
Lies, damned lies and statistics
The trouble with data is that by the time you get to make sense of it, it's out of date. That means any economic data is reflecting a historical point.
Weaker pound 'signals strength for economy'
The pound in your pocket is getting metaphorically lighter. In a strange twist of fate the value of sterling and the success of Northern Ireland companies is being both helped and hindered by the German economy, one which is has shaken off the last vestiges of recession and is now bristling along in fifth gear.
Barclays cull a chilling reminder of recession
On the subject of jobs, the news of 3,700 posts going at Barclays is a chilling reminder that the difficult days of recession are far from over.
From hard rocker to hard seller
Sometimes its hard to get excited about business dinners but sometimes, just sometimes, the guest speaker can add a frisson of intrigue.
Malone on rocky road to Virgin Media buyout
Apparently US billionaire John Malone is in talks to buy Richard Branson's cable company Virgin Media.
No fuelling motorists, taxes are real culprit
If you believe what the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is saying then we shouldn't be complaining when it comes to filling up with fuel.
Pound's fall not helping fight against fuel rises
As one who is forced to fill up the car with fuel far too often than I'd like, the price of crude oil has quietly climbed to a four-and-a-half month high, according to a learned statistician.
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Group enjoying successful recovery
THE Harland and Wolff Group (H&W) continues to operate as an expanding diverse engineering business with a number of special capabilities related to marine engineering and design, ship repair, and including offshore wind-farm fabrication. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Norwegian Fred Olsen Energy Group.
If Osborne was thinking at all he clearly would break up RBS
The late Christopher Hitchens wrote in his memoirs that an editor once said something to him that made it impossible to continue working for the man. A footnote revealed that those words had been "you're fired". That soupcon of wit springs to mind when one considers the spin around the news that Stephen Hester will leave the Royal Bank of Scotland this year.
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