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Business Today |
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Thursday, 30 April, 2026 | | |
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Editor's Note |
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Good morning, reader |
Prices for building materials are rising at their highest rate since October of 2023, according to the Department of Finance. As Jack Horgan-Jones reports. the Department outlined that during February, the wholesale price of construction materials jumped by 1.8 per cent. This compares to an increase of 1.5 per cent in January.
Start-ups have long been known to “pivot” to something else when their initial business doesn’t ultimately work out. Sometimes those pivots turn out to be successful, sometimes they don’t work out any better than the original plan. In Net Results, Emmet Ryan looks at Allbirds, which was formerly a high profile shoe business but now, barely believably, is switching to AI infrastructure. Could it work? Maybe. But it’s fair to say Emmet is sceptical of the plan, such as it is.
Headline inflation remained steady in March and Cantillon assesses what has widely been sign as a benign data set, while also running the rule over Premier Lotteries desire to ban people betting on bookmakers on the Lotto results.
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