The stock has soared since it revealed, if that's the right word, a hush-hush contract with the US military and plans to list on Wall Street.

Funny that – it's the only stock in our race that's really on fire. After two weeks the market is lower than when the race started.

So it's a credit to the dartboard for adding more than $7000 to its $100,000 starting portfolio and to the Ben-ites, Phil Baker and Richard Hemming for more than holding their own.

As has yours truly with the second-best performer in the Ten Network, which has done so badly that the vultures are swooping, giving its price a bounce.

Phileo, a property developer not to be confused with Philae, the robot probe perched on a comet in outer space, also did well for the dartboard.

Although Wall Street has been breaking records our market has been held back by falling iron ore and gold prices as well as the banks.

Iron ore is suffering a supply glut which BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto are deliberately engineering to drive out high-cost producers.

The same tactic is being used by OPEC, in this case driving down oil prices to undermine the economics of the fracking revolution in North America.

Three of the big four banks paid their dividends so their prices subsequently dropped and pulled the index down.

Then Westpac's chief executive, Gail Kelly, announced her retirement, putting the kybosh on hers and most of the other banks.

With life likely to get tougher for the banks when the Murray inquiry reports, the question is does she know something?

David Potts