Monday's business news headlines along with Tom McEnaney.

The US government has granted tariff exclusions for smartphones, computers and other electronics imported largely from China, sparing them from President Donald Trump's steep 125% reciprocal duties.  

 This comes after President Donald Trump’s pausing his tariffs on dozens of countries including Ireland on Wednesday for 90 days to allow time for officials to negotiate with countries that have sought to reduce them. We discuss this and more with David McRedmond, CEO of An Post.  

The Boatyard Distillery have announced their first distribution partner in the United States to accelerate multi-state expansion. To chat more about their expansion Tom was joined on the show by Managing Director, Declan McGurk.

Friday's business news and markets along with Tom McEnaney and Austin Hughes.

Researchers in Cork are testing a new solar energy system that could help slash home heating bills.   

 Tom was joined on the show by Dr Pádraig Lyons, Head of Group at the International Energy Research Centre, who are pilot the state-of-the-art prototypes at the Tyndall National Institute. 

Thursday's business news headlines along with Joe Lynam.

Think about all the millions of plastic gloves and aprons that are thrown away every day by restaurants, hospitals, clean rooms and other users of Personal Protective Equipment. HaPPE Earth is an Irish start-up which sells fully compostable PPE as well as offering a service to anaerobically digest food waste on site.  

Mary O'Riordan,Co-founder and CEO of HaPPE Earth has been shortlisted for a Sustainability award with the RDS Foundation.

We may be in the middle of a major trade war and probably in the foothills of a worldwide recession. Ireland will almost certainly be impacted. And indeed the consultants Morgan McKinley says that some employers are quietly letting some staff go. 

Despite that, job opportunities for so-called white-collar workers were up 2% over the past year and even 7% over the past quarter. Interestingly, the number of people looking for opportunities was also up by even more – 16%.  But companies are adjusting but not scrapping their diversity programmes. 

All to discuss with Trayc Keevans, Global FDI Director at Morgan McKinley. 

Sebastian Mallaby wrote a book about hedge funds called ‘More Money than God’ and in that book he writes about a ‘hedgie’ called Scott Bessent who played a huge role in betting against Sterling in 1992.  

Sebastian Mallaby is the Paul Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics with the Council on Foreign Relations joined Joe this morning.

Danish company Novo Nordisk came up with a revolutionary weight loss drug called Wegovy and Ozempic.  Its rival Eli Lilly has Mounjaro and Pfizer is looking at developing one too.  Now another Scandinavian pharmaceutical group Pila Pharma thinks it may have found another weight loss pill too.   

Speaking to Joe this morning was Gustav Gram, the Chief Executive of Pila Pharma.