Well I dont know what kind of a "positive announcements" You got but If XCP alliance with Overstock is broken price will fall to 0.005...
If the posters in this thread are accurate about smart contracts payments then I really really doubt it will ever go that low. The decentralized stock exchange already works... as someone else said, XCP has endless utility beyond Overstock... lets get more excited about decentralized things

Smart contracts were copied from Ethereum so probably many other will do the same...
We need a statement what is going on

Factom come under Counterparty not MSC? One of good news? 3 day ago mastercoin dev wrote in msc thread factom is coming to MSC.