my thoughts...XOM delays making a decision, advises the FO board of the delay at the last second, of the last hour, of the last day when it has to decide...FO shareholders pull their hair in manic-depressive fits and announce that they are selling and the die-hards say they are holding....XTO reviews the data and recommends to continue sometime in the early summer......Fo shareholders hit the posting boards and exhault their happiness by announcing that they have been buying all along...first well gets spud in the autum and hopefully the new board prevents MAB from wasting our dollars and do something constructive with the new payment...

holding

db