AIB has announced a reduction of 0.25 percent in its variable mortgage interest rates for all owner occupier mortgages, and loans with EBS and Haven.
The bank's standard variable rate will fall to 3.7 percent.
AIB has also reported a half-year profit before tax of €1.2bn - a €0.8bn increase on the same period in 2014.
Today's rate cuts are due to affect some 156,000 mortgage account holders. This is the bank's third rate reduction in ten months and comes into effect on October 1st.
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HTC shares fell by 10 percent yesterday, reaching its daily limit before trading was suspended after the company revealed that its third quarter losses were five times analysts' estimates.
The company has announced plans to cut staff and to streamline its mobile offerings as it comes under increasing pressure from Apple at the top-end of the market - and companies like Huawei and Xiaomi who offer high-performance mid-price handsets.
Sales during the quarter came to NT$19bn ($600m) - well below the projected NT$36.8bn.
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Dragon Oil will be delisted from the stock exchanges in Ireland and London after being taken over by Emirates National Oil Co.
The company offered 750 pence per share to buy out minority shareholders in June - this offer was later increased to 800 pence per share.
The company's new bid valued Dragon at some €5.5bn and has been accepted - the delisting will take effect as of September 7th.
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Three Coca Cola bottlers will merge in a deal worth $27bn - Coca-Cola Enterprises in the US will join with its Iberian and German counterparts.
The merger will simplify the beverage company's manufacturing process and cut manufacturing costs.
In an internal memo seen by the Financial Times, the president of Coca-Cola in Europe, James Quincey said that this will improve the company's ability to respond to changes in the beverage market.
