By Rudi Filapek-Vandyck, Editor FNArena This story should be read in conjunction with Monday's Weekly Insights "Are You In Tune?

Graphite stocks: Forget rare earths and mineral sands. At least until yesterday the hot money was running to stocks exposed to graphite, another industrial mineral used for everything from lithium batteries to nuclear reactors.

AS far as listed stocks go, Wayne Swan's numbers-shuffling effort last night was more compelling for the absence of the "what might have been" measures, rather than the efforts that made their way to the voluminous tome.

Echo Entertainment Group Ltd. (EGP) is poised to become the target of the largest casino takeover in more than five years, thanks to its monopoly in Sydney and 16 million potential Chinese gamblers.

AAP Stocks to watch on the Australian stock exchange at close on Thursday: AAD - ARDENT LEISURE GROUP LTD - up two cents at $1.295 The head of some of Australia's most popular theme parks says lower interest rates can only be good for business.

By Scott Phillips - Monday, April 30th, 2012 For the first time in a while, the Australian market finally followed the overseas leads with a strong gain today.