It's almost like they are doing this deliberately...maybe so as not to illicit the ire of the operators, who don't want to disclose yet the results, and so by depressing the share price, they can turn to the operators and say, "see, the share price says we haven not let the cat out of the bag". That is pure conjecture from my point of view.
Unless Peter is completely out of touch with the shareholders, how could he not know that his words would send the share price downward? One thing is for sure, he has a lot of "guts" if you know what I mean, for him to be able to stand in front of these loyal long standing shareholders ... I'll give him credit for that...lots of fortitude.
I can't say the same for myself, as I will likely turn my phone off so I don't have to answer to the Europeans. Man, is my name "mud". I hate it when this happens.
So it appears that Jake guy was right about March.
Krombacher