Plaintiffs in a continuous disclosure claim against a company in liquidation failed to establish that non-disclosure of deteriorating earnings forecasts caused share price inflation, where the market had already priced in the company's financial distress, and the Court expressed reservations about the theoretical soundness of market-based causation without finally resolving its availability in Australian law.
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