News   Sport   Business Business Week Media and Marketing Interviews Markets International Technology Property   Tribune Review   Tribune Magazine		Markets MARKET MONKEY -- Monkey's best new year resolution: play by the rules IT'S a new year, a fresh start and Monkey's ready to rock and roll. I'm starting the year with a smaller bankroll of 20,000. Market wrap: Irish stocks inmodest gain IRISH stocks outperformed their European peers for a change as the Iseq posted a modest gain of 0.6% to end the week at 6,977.13 . . MARKET MONKEY A short market history of apes and nuts that was 2007 BEING asked to write a 1,000-word summary of what happened in the markets in 2007 reminds me of that Monty Python sketch where contestants were MARKET MONKEY --- Santa Claus does nothing to placate the bears THINGS have been grim for markets over the past week. Fund managers better off throwing darts IF YOU had money invested in an Irish equities fund through 2007, there's a better than 50/50 chance you have paid for the privilege of Can you start making millions in 2008? THERE are a thousand ways to make millions but big profits are made when you change the rules of the game, usually through enterprise and Market wrap: European stocks retreat CHRISTMAS SPIRIT was in short supply this week on the Irish Stock Exchange for building group Kingspan, which suffered a near 30% cut in its Back To Top >>		More Business Permanent disaster in the pipeline for oil? FOR the briefest of moments this week, Construction sector preparing for a build-down Construction is still one of the biggest MARKET MONKEY -- Monkey's best new year resolution: play by the rules IT'S a new year, a fresh start more Business from the archives Chelsea take battle of the billionaires FACUP THIRD ROUND CHELSEA 1 QPR 0 Stadium of plight FA CUP THIRD ROUND SUNDERLAND 0 WIGAN Rocky fiyin' high in Swansea IN the one result of the day