why a higher buyout price??? no logic behind that - they already would have the shares and therefore only need to buy the remaining O/S which they would want to do for as little as possible.
Well, the dot connectors were unanimous that SNP had bought millions of shares in the high $.80s right after PSCs were signed, so with the current purchasing going on by China, we should be seeing SEC documents any day now.
As for the current volume, I remember the regular trading days used to be higher than this - for months on end, almost always over a million. Today's volume would have been considered a light day. And that was when there were fewer shares out by the company too. We aren't really approaching what I would consider to be an active day, but yes it is more shares moving around that we generally see any more. Personally, I don't read a whole lot into this volume, but I do note the change. Hopefully it is indicative of something else going on, and hopefully that something is positive.
JMO.
Edit - chart volume from 2003 to 2007 and compare to current.