No one knows, anyone's guess is as good as another's.US market...

No one knows, anyone's guess is as good as another's.
US market goes up, goes down - does not matter what happens here we will follow it.

Anyway, regardless of what the SP does in the next week or two, the drill results will determine the NWE share price.
The first drill hole should be finished in less than six weeks.
Nothing else will matter.
MIN may try to slow down drilling information, but we will end up knowing the results fairly quickly anyway.
After the takeover closes, MIN have little reason not to release information to NWE.