The bank, which led a return to profitability across the Irish sector following years of losses after the country’s 2008 banking crash, reported an underlying first-half pretax profit of 560 million euros ($621 million) versus 743 million a year ago.
The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 1.2 percent in the second quarter this year, which is below market expectation, the Commerce Department said Friday.
The IRS claims Facebook’s tax adviser Ernst & Young LLP undervalued the company’s property as it was transferred to Facebook Ireland Holdings Ltd.by evaluating pieces of the online platform separately, according to court filings.
Oil futures were poised Friday to mark their third-monthly loss of the year, with West Texas Intermediate crude officially entering a bear market as lingering concerns about oversupply and a deluge of refined products triggered a selloff.
Florida power provider NextEra Energy said Friday that it had reached a deal to acquire an 80% stake in Texas transmission company Oncor Electric Delivery in a deal that will help resolve a massive energy bankruptcy.
Alphabet – which competes with all of the other four companies in either advertising, cloud computing, or operating systems – showed that efforts to push its vast ad business toward mobile were paying off, calming fears that the company’s best days were behind it.
Turkish soldiers detain Staff Sergeant Erkan Cikat, one of the missing military personnel suspected of being involved in the coup attempt, in Marmaris, Turkey on July 25, 2016.
U.S. stock-index futures rose on Wednesday, as European and Japanese stocks gained in early trade ahead of policy announcements from the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan.
“If Russia or any other country or person has Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 illegally deleted emails, perhaps they should share them with the Federal Bureau of Investigation!”
However, despite reports of an increasingly limited role at the convention, she added: “As Party Chair, this week I will open and close the Convention and I will address our delegates about the stakes involved in this election not only for Democrats, but for all Americans”.
USA electric component distributor Avnet has agreed to buy Premier Farnell Plc for 691 million pounds ($911 million), trumping an earlier offer from Daetwyler Holding AG for the British maker of the Raspberry Pi mini- computer.