S&P/ASX 200 Index over past 12 months, daily (points)
JULY
&#183; Brookfield lobs $9b bid for Asciano
&#183; Greece accepts austerity measures after agreeing to bailout
&#183; APRA flags big four banks will need to raise extra $28b capital
&#183; TPG Telecom acquires iiNet for $1.6b
&#183; The Star Entertainment beats Crown Resorts in Brisbane casino bid 
AUGUST
&#183; ANZ raises $3b, CBA $5b, NAB $5.5b
&#183; Google splits operations, creates parent Alphabet
&#183; Coalition leadership spill talk begins
&#183; Seek shares plunge after CEO prioritises long-term growth over short-term returns
&#183; Qantas swings to a yearly $1b profit, from a $600m loss
&#183; Gordon Cairns appointed as Woolworths chairman
&#183; The ASX 200 drops 4.1% for its worst day of the year, on concerns about China
SEPTEMBER
&#183; Glencore flags $US10b cost cutting program, raises $US2.5b
&#183; Woodside Petroleum bids $11.6b for Oil Search
&#183; Malcolm Turnbull replaces Tony Abbott as Prime Minister
&#183; Hong Kong's Biostime buys Swisse Wellness for $1.7b
&#183; Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal erupts
&#183; Atlassian files documents for NASDAQ IPO
&#183; Aussie league player Jarryd Hayne selected to San Francisco 49ers NFL team
&#183; International Energy Agency warns six Aussie LNG projects will struggle to break even because of the falling oil price
&#183; Turnbull appoints three female ministers to his cabinet
OCTOBER
&#183; Shayne Elliott appointed new ANZ CEO
&#183; 12 nations sign up to the Trans-Pacific Partnership
&#183; AB InBev pays $68b for SABMiller
&#183; IAG relents to shareholder pressure and abandons China expansion plans
&#183; Westpac raises $3.5b
&#183; Medibank Private CEO George Savvides announces his departure less than a year after the $5.7b float
&#183; Santos rejects a $7b takeover bid by Scepter Partners
&#183; Dick Smith flags massive pre-Christmas discounting and an advertising blitz to boost sales
&#183; Qube takes Asciano stake to block Brookfield bid
NOVEMBER
&#183; Samarco dam collapse at a Brazil iron ore mine part owned by BHP Billiton kills 19 people
&#183; Santos raises $3.5b, offers a 15% placement to Chinese firm Hony Capital
&#183; Paris terror attacks
&#183; Tatts Group and Tabcorp mull merger
&#183; BHP flags it may drop its controversial progressive dividend policy
&#183; Treasurer Scott Morrison knocks back Chinese bids for S. Kidman & Co
&#183; BHP Billiton shares hit a decade low of $14.20
&#183; NSW sells TransGrid for $10.3b
&#183; Slater & Gordon shares fall more than 50% in one day after Britain limits lawsuits for car accidents
&#183; Atlassian files prospectus
DECEMBER
&#183; Dick Smith shares fall 70% in a day on massive write-downs
&#183; Spotless shares fall almost 40% in a day after a profit warning
&#183; Gina Rinehart's Roy Hill ships first iron ore
&#183; Anglo American cuts 85,000 jobs
&#183; Atlassian shares surge 32% on NASDAQ debut
&#183; Almost 200 countries sign Paris climate accord
&#183; James Packer begins Crown Resorts privatisation talks, quits board
&#183; Michelle Guthrie appointed ABC managing director
JANUARY
&#183; Dick Smith goes into administration
&#183; Blackmores hits all-time high of $220.90
&#183; Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall get engaged, David Bowie dies
&#183; Sacked traders allege ANZ tolerates drugs, strippers
&#183; Wesfarmers buys Britain's Home Base for $700m
&#183; BHP writes down its shale oil and gas business by $10b
&#183; Woolies abandons hardware, puts Masters up for sale
&#183; Clive Palmer's Queensland Nickel enters administration
&#183; ANZ CEO Shayne Elliott flags retreat from Asian expansion
&#183; Qube makes a counter-bid against Brookfield for Asciano
&#183; Japan cuts rates to below zero
FEBRUARY
&#183; S&P downgrades BHP credit rating, paving the way for the miner to cut its dividend
&#183; BHP, Rio abandon progressive dividend policies
&#183; Proposed Arrium recapitalisation to give control to hedge fund
&#183; Qube and Brookfield combine for joint Asciano bid
&#183; Wesfarmers restructure gives control of Kmart and Target to Guy Russo
&#183; Asciano CEO John Mullen named new Telstra chair
&#183; Brad Banducci appointed as Woolworths CEO
MARCH
&#183; ASIC launches rate rigging case against ANZ
&#183; Fortescue inks a JV with Vale
&#183; Chevron ships first LNG from Gorgon
&#183; Surfstitch CEO quits, says he has a private equity bid ready
&#183; Jean-Sebastien Jacques replaces Sam Walsh as Rio Tinto CEO
&#183; ASX CEO Elmer Funke-Kupper resigns amid a bribery scandal at his old company Tabcorp
&#183; Ex-NAB CFO Craig Drummond announced as new Medibank CEO
&#183; Air NZ looks to sell its 29% Virgin stake
APRIL
&#183; Panama Papers unveil global profit shifting and tax avoidance
&#183; Westpac sued by ASIC over rate rigging
&#183; Malcolm Turnbull attacks banks at Westpac's birthday bash, Labor announces a royal commission
&#183; Chinese e-commerce crackdown hits exporters like Blackmores, Bellamy's, Murray Goulburn
&#183; Wesfarmers sacks four Target executives over supplier scandal
&#183; RBA warns on apartment glut, McGrath falls 30% on property slump fears
&#183; Turnbull calls   July 2 election
&#183; French group DCNS wins $50b submarine contract
&#183; Simon McKeon mysteriously departs AMP chair
&#183; Murray Goulburn CEO Gary Helou resigns after group misses prospectus forecasts
MAY
&#183; Federal budget slashes super tax concessions to fund business tax cuts
&#183; RBA cuts cash rate to 1.75%
&#183; Philip Lowe appointed as new RBA governor
&#183; Colonial First State sells out of Crown Resorts over governance concerns
&#183; Oil Search launches $3b takeover bid for InterOil
&#183; Wesfarmers books $2b-plus write-downs on Target and Coal businesses
&#183; Harry Triguboff tops the BRW Rich List with wealth of $10.6b
&#183; Bell Potter broker Angus Aitken sacked after ANZ sexism row
JUNE
&#183; Oliver Curtis found guilty of insider trading, sentenced to at least one year in jail
&#183; NAB becomes third bank sued by ASIC over rate rigging
&#183; Labor retreats on opposition to billions in spending cuts
&#183; Aussie 10-year govt bonds fall below 2% for first time
&#183; Crown Resorts moves to spin off international arm
&#183; Virgin launches $1b capital raise
&#183; ACCC sues Medibank Private
&#183; Britain votes to leave EU, David Cameron quits, markets panic


Growth opportunities 
All new ASX listings in 2015-16 that raised above $US100m* 
S&P/ASX 200 best and worst in 2015-16 (%) 
BEST 
St Barbara          +417.5
Saracen Minerals +234.9
Regis Resources  +233.4
A2 Milk                +173.4
Bellamy's            +135.6
Northern Star      +128.6
APN Outdoor        +126.8
Aconex                +124.0
BlueScope Steel         +115.0
Evolution Mining +105.6
WORST 
Mesoblast              -71.4
Cover-More         -47.7
Spotless Group      -43.2
Origin Energy          -42.0
Beach Energy        -41.4
Orica                  -39.1
Programmed          -34.8
Flexigroup             -34.6
Select Harvests  -33.5
Austal                   -32.5