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Fortescue Leads The Way With 8% Gain On An Up Day To Start Year
INVESTORS' interest in resource stocks crossed over into 2008, with Fortescue Metals proving the most favoured stock on the first day of trading.
As Crowd Basks In The Ladies Day Sun, Investors Retreat At A Gallop
? Keep track of your investment universe using a portfolio tracker and other analytical tools at theage.com.au/businessday SUSPECTING the worst, investors took the market to its biggest fall in almost three months as more subprime angst overtook Wall Street.
Museum Piece Or A Sharp Shooter?
THE buyer of Charlie Chaplin's camera had better not be planning to make silent films. The Australian director Rolf de Heer, whose silent comedy Dr Plonk opens in cinemas next month, says the old hand-cranked Bell and Howell might be of more historic than practical value given how much film..read more
Asia Treads Softly As West Takes Nap
It was a case of almost all quiet on the eastern front yesterday as traders in a handful of Asian markets provided the only financial direction, with most Western stock exchanges closed for the Easter holidays. Japan's broad Topix Index rose for a fourth day, led by NTT DoCoMo..read more
Media Go For Shadow Shares
America's ``old" media have lost interest in spinning off their ``new" media Internet operations and are heading furiously down the ``tracking stock" road. One is up and running, several more already have been unveiled by The New York Times, Disney and NBC and investment bankers