the other possibility is someone wanted the sp to sink into the...

the other possibility is someone wanted the sp to sink into the close today and worked it down gently from midday on. Not much buyer interest in this climate for anything (just look at most miners after the rspt relief) and so it would be relatively easy to keep it down. A little plunge on monday would not surprise me.

My money is on a firm 60c offer on Monday arvo, but i am often wrong.

If Aspen really had major concerns about litigation would they have needed extra time to pick over the books? I would have thought that liability issue could be assessed pretty quickly by a team of accountants. No I think the extra time is about working out the synergies...seeing what they can cut away etc