"$40 billion zapped from shareholders
01 March 2003
IT WOULD be easy to blame the looming war or the global equity slump for the crisis that now envelops AMP and, to a lesser extent, Telstra.
Investors punish Suncorp for flat interim
01 March 2003
SUNCORP Metway incurred investors' wrath yesterday after reporting a flat December-half profit of $155 million as sliding equity markets, competition in the banking sector and a bad debt blowout combined to crimp growth.
Billabong dumped on $35m half year
01 March 2003
SHARES in Billabong International reached a 19-month low yesterday after the surfwear company copped an investor backlash for releasing a half-yearly result below expectations and lowering its full-year forecast."
These were some of the head lines that are from today's Courier Mail, Brisbane.
Clive
