When I've spoken to 'management' in the past it's always been made clear that they can't reveal anything to shareholders that would contravene trading rules. However, when one asks a question the response tends to be either an emphatic yes/no or "I can't comment on that". The latter suggests that something related to the question/answer is in hand, again IMHO. Yes, that' speculative, but isn't that what the stock market is all about? After all, if all that we based our decisions on is fact we'd be well behind the curve.

Rich