Hardie Casts A Long Shadow

A sinister killer, a flight to Amsterdam, and hundreds of millions of dollars at stake . . . the asbestos saga reads like a novel. Elisabeth Sexton reports.

Harvey World Travel

It would have been an inspired decision. In August last year, the air ticket retailer Flight Centre, one of the market's darling stocks in recent years, was travelling well as it approached $24 after jumping from $17.40 on April 28, 2003. It was still well shy of its 2002 high of $28.50 on June 7, 2002, but plenty of investors would have been comfortably in the money around $24.