Wow. A bag of chips in our house wouldn't survive 3 hours. ...

Wow. A bag of chips in our house wouldn't survive 3 hours.  Generally, in the share market I find that no news is bad news.  I would not base an investment decision on that but generally the companies that report early are the ones with the good results and bad results come in at the end of the reporting period or on some other day when the company thinks they will not be noticed.  Also when management says we expect x by time y and that time is already up then something has gone awry.