US President Donald Trump said he was likely to impose tariffs on pharmaceuticals as soon as the end of the month and that levies on semiconductors could come soon as well, suggesting that those import taxes could hit alongside broad “reciprocal” rates set for implementation on August 1st.

Bank of Ireland has raised its Irish economic growth estimates, amid surging exports and investment spending, with one big Trump caveat. Joe Brennan has the story.

In a world of subscriptions where many folks pay for access to, but don’t own, things from music to books to films to computer games, Emmet Ryan explains how an obscure court case may end the era of “digital serfdom.”