First no merge, but expect both to go private, also if you looked at ETCC's one month chart, the market was manipulated, on the 8th they announced quarterly report, then the pps dropped suddenly, CEO and others bought at 1.31. Now pps back up to 1.75. Purely someone sold to drop the price so they could get market price much lower than it had been now it's back up. But back to TEVE and ETCC merging? Why would they, there is a negative earnings per share on both stocks, it would benefit the majority owner to go private and not have to share any potential gains, for a shrewd business man that makes sense.