exco's response to cash offer ..., page-31

aka - Yes, but the $2,891,277 question is ... WHO is buying them???

It could be a white knight eg; JPM or an Investment Fund; or it could be Taurus (ex CEO & MA's new employer); or it could be a blocking stake like Xstrata; or it could be the Company instructing a broker to go in and start buying the shares back & then transfer them back to the Company as a 'buy back'. We can only theorise.

But it cannot be SOL because they (theoretically) CANNOT increase their holding in their own name from hereonin as the acquirer at this point.