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The week in charts

It has been a volatile week for some of the bourse's top listed stocks, and for one of the market's newcomers
By · 6 Dec 2013
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6 Dec 2013
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Euphoria around the Freelancer initial public offering (IPO) has waned this week.  Freelancer had lost 15 per cent over the week by Friday morning.  While a price of $1.10 is comfortably double the IPO price of 50 cents, it is a far cry from the high of $2.60 shares were trading hands at on the first day of listing in mid-November.


Graph for The week in charts

Source: Bloomberg

Qantas gave up 11.2 per cent on Thursday after outlining a pretax loss of between $250 and $300 million for the first half of this financial year. Investors were quick to depart Qantas as it is becoming more apparent that the war between Qantas and Virgin is becoming increasingly expensive, without a commensurate return.


Graph for The week in charts

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