Anglo Irish Bank News
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Brendan McDonagh traveled to Madrid last month brandishing a map with about 120 hotels. Unlike other visitors to the Spanish capital, they were all in Ireland.
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The Irish central bank’s provisions for potential losses on investments and securities increased to 400 million euro ($523 million) last year, amid rising risks posed by the euro area’s sovereign debt crisis.
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Ireland’s stock index is the best performer in western Europe this year. That’s not enough to stop some of its biggest companies from defecting.
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Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny suffered his biggest setback since taking power two years ago, as unions rejected his plans to cut pay for state employees.
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Anglo Irish Bank Corp. defended a sale of its U.S. loan portfolio that was ordered by the Irish government and its acquisition of Irish Nationwide Building Society, calling them “non-commercial, sovereign acts.”
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As Irish ministers promote the nation’s economic revival on St. Patrick’s Day after selling bonds this week, there’s one topic to avoid: debt.
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Anglo Irish Bank Corp. was ordered by a federal judge in New York to explain whether it submitted a plan to merge with Irish Nationwide Building Society and detail its sales of U.S. assets.
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Ireland is making use of a secret arrangement between euro-area central banks to ensure its controversial debt swap doesn’t fall foul of a ban on monetary state financing, three people familiar with the matter said.
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Moody’s Investors Service maintained Ireland’s non-investment rating and negative outlook, citing risks in the euro area following the Cyprus bailout and the poor asset quality of Irish banks.
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Ireland’s five-year note yields fell to the lowest in more than seven years after the nation won an agreement to restructure the costs of rescuing the former Anglo Irish Bank Corp.
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