Schneider also took the case up with the European Court of First Instance, which ruled Wednesday that the company should be paid back for two-thirds of its losses brought on by the delay in its EU-ordered divestiture.

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It won't help that in an interim hearing on this case, the president of the Court of First Instance, Marc Jaeger, dismissed it.

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In the first case, the best, most reliable indicator of how an investor will behave (for instance, in volatile markets) is his past behavior.

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