Category: Financial Topics

Hounslow traders better watch out

Here’s a top bit of advice: keep your head down if you’re a Hounslow day trader. Always the default suspect with any flash crash caper, especially if the Americans have done their money. Next thing you know, you’re being carted off in your trackie bottoms.

Watchdog sides with insurers on hospitals charging A&E patients

The state’s insurance watchdog has confirmed that the cost of health claims is being driven up by a government policy that allows hospitals to impose private patient charges on everyone with insurance — even when they end up on trollies because of overcrowding.

Mortgage scandal shows we’d be better tracking the bankers

There is little reason to hope that this week’s showdown with the banks, when finance minister Paschal Donohoe takes them to task over the tracker mortgage scandal, will yield results. Previous encounters of this kind were nothing more than an excuse for the government to be…