RE: RE: Disproportionately Obliterated today !! Sold or not is irrelevant. The brutal net earnings are a result of the increase in the take by the Chilean government (which will be ongoing in every future quarter) and the loss on the convertable debentures. The resulting 18 million loss reduced net earnings by 50%. The Chilean governemnt took 9 million out by increasing the tax rate and this will be every quarter forward along with the fact that there is nothing to prevent another increase with the stroke of a pen. That is 36 million less in net earnings annually.