Just to set the record straight, I don't think I 'talk down the stock'. I challenge/query statements by other posters who present opinions/theories etc. as if they were facts (e.g. your idea that delays in completing any deal were to do with the financial year-end / PS's takeover theories / the 'fact' that iTRAQ is subject to a PRM patent etc). I do moan about statements by the company which turn out not to mean what every sane English-speaker took them to mean, but I think that's fair comment rather than talking down the stock. I remain........errrrr........'hopeful'!