This column is about two companies at opposite ends of the NZX. The first is Fletcher Building. The other is Renaissance Corporation.

The sharemarket has seen a raft of new companies launch on to the exchange in the past 14 months but not all have proved to be winners.

Chorus shares have continued to tumble to a new low this morning - on the back of 35.5c fall last week.

The Government, fresh from the sale of shares in Mighty River Power and Meridian Energy, faces a harder sell when it comes to divesting a 49 per cent stake in the third and final power generator.

The benchmark index for New Zealand's share market could hit 5000 points this week but analysts say share prices still haven't fully recovered from the global financial crisis.

To accept the idea of being under constant observation is to accept imprisonment - ironically by the Land of the Free, writes Chris Barton.

Infratil and NZ Super Fund are both buying up big stakes in listed retirement village operator Metlifecare.

Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings says a "she'll be right attitude" was one of the causes of the company's botulism fiasco.

What's his game? Is the PM misinformed? Or deliberately spreading misinformation? Chris Barton looks at the issues on the copper tax debate.