The Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee will meet on Wednesday and Thursday of this week, and will decide if interest rates should be increased.
US economic data has improved, and Federal Reserve officials have indicated that a rate hike is coming - and signalled that it cold happen in September, but the issue has been complicated by the slowdown in China, and recent market volatility.
Raising interest rates too soon could hurt the country's recovery - this would be the country's first rate increase in nine years.
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A new McDonald's drive-through restaurant will create 70 jobs in Cork as part of a €3m investment in a new outlet at Musgrave Park in Cork City.
This will bring the total number of people employed by the fast food giant in Cork to more than 500 - and this will be the 88th McDonald's restaurant in Ireland.
The chain recently launched an Irish McMór burger last month with bacon and cabbage and Charleville cheese - however it was asked to stop describing it as an 'artisan' product, for failing to meet the Food Safety Authority of Ireland's 'artisan' standards.
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Dublin-based online payments service provider Realex Payments is creating 50 new jobs in the Docklands.
The new positions come after the company was acquired by Global Payments earlier this year.
It currently employs some 170 people in Dublin, and it was sold in a deal worth €115m in March.
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Property investment group, Tetrarch Capital is to seek permission to build a multimillion-euro residential and commercial development in Kildare's Millennium Park.
It recently acquired 336 acres in the park from the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) for some €36m.
The Irish Times reports that it will apply to build up to 50,000sq feet of office space with 400 housing units, and that the development will cost €7.5m.
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Greek political leaders will meet today for the last TV debate before the country goes to the polls on September 20th for the state's second election in 2015.
Alexis Tsipras and Syriza still lead in the polls - but Vangelis Meimarakis and the conservative, pro-Europe New Democracy party has been gaining ground.
It is believed that there could be a backlash against Mr.Tsipras after he and his party accepted an austerity-heavy bailout deal from its international creditors, after five months of drawn-out negotiations.
