An Irish-owned oil exploration company has become the best-performing share on the Dublin stock exchange due to its success in drilling the oil fields of Siberia. [more]

The global foreign exchange market has experienced a 20 per cent rise in turnover in the last three years, according to new statistics from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). [more]

Irish government ministers and economic leaders have deliberately taken the unusual step of publicly criticising the move to downgrade Ireland's credit rating. [more]

The chief executive of global insurance brand, Zurich Insurance Plc, has lauded the financial opportunity offered to the company in Ireland. [more]

The euro has gained against the US dollar and risen from a 7-week low against the yen, supported by Irish and Spanish bond auctions. [more]

Ireland's export industry has offered the latest ray of hope in the nation's economic recovery, after merchandise exports experienced the first quarterly growth since the start of 2009. [more]

The Eurozone saw better-than-expected growth in the second quarter of 2010 as a result of strong economic growth in Germany – one of the largest economies in the region. [more]

Back in 1992 the Swiss people voted to stay out of the European Economic Area, a precursor to joining the EU. With continued prosperity in Switzerland, despite near financial meltdown in many EU countries, many Swiss believe that they took the right decision to stay out of the EU. [more]

One of Ireland's top investment consultants and academics has said a solo effort by Ireland to break free of the euro and re-establish its own currency would spell disaster for the nation's economy. [more]

The European economy's apparent rebounds from the Greek debt crisis and its effects should be treated cautiously, leading economists have said. [more]