Sean Ryan

Dec 10, 2024 | irishtimes.com | Sean Ryan

A fisherman has died after he fell from a boat at King John’s Pier in Carlingford, Co Louth, on Monday morning. He has been named locally as Gearóid McMahon (62) from Blackrock, Co Louth, who was formerly from Limerick city. It is understood that he fell from a fishing boat in the harbour. The local coast guard and gardaí attended the scene when the alarm was raised around 8.30am. Garda divers began an operation to recover the remains of the man.

Nov 20, 2024 | insight.factset.com | Edward McCormick |FactSet Insight |Sean Ryan

We’ve often analyzed various index returns in the public and private spheres over the years. For today’s analysis, we have augmented our approach to visualize the role of geographies in the variance between public and private market performance. Given the robust data available, we selected Asia-Emerging, Emerging Markets, Europe-West, Latin America, and North America from the MSCI regional indexes on our platform.

Nov 19, 2024 | insight.factset.com | FactSet Insight |Sean Ryan |Colin Devereaux

U.S. M&A deal activity increased in October, going up 9.1% with 1,202 announcements compared to 1,102 in September. However, aggregate M&A spending decreased. In October, 18.9% less was spent on deals compared to September. In terms of M&A deal activity, 4 of the 21 sectors tracked by FactSet saw an increase in M&A deal activity over the past three months relative to the same three-month period one year ago: Health Technology (123 vs. 110), Electronic Technology (78 vs. 69), Miscellaneous (12 vs.

Oct 17, 2024 | insight.factset.com | FactSet Insight |Sean Ryan |Colin Devereaux

U.S. M&A deal activity increased in September, going up 4.6% with 986 announcements compared to 943 in August. Aggregate M&A spending increased as well. In September 9.3% more was spent on deals compared to August. In terms of M&A deal activity, 6 of the 21 sectors tracked by FactSet saw an increase in M&A deal activity over the past three months relative to the same three-month period one year ago.

Oct 14, 2024 | insight.factset.com | Sean Ryan |Colin Devereaux |FactSet Insight |Edward McCormick

Companies and Markets By Sean Ryan  |  October 14, 2024 Given the fluid scope of activities in Washington DC, we met up again with Michele Lieber, Global Head of Government Affairs at FactSet. Listen in to the discussion as she highlights key variables and considerations of both the U.S. presidential election and the makeup of the next Congress.