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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Incorporated (QCOM)
QCOM 174.80+0.3%Dec 5 9:30 AM EST

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To: DTA who wrote (20218)12/21/1998 11:34:00 PM
From: Ruffian   of 152472
 
Sorry, But I always Felt This Guy Was And Is An<A-Hole>
Guest analyst returning to CNBC after controversial
comments
Associated Press

Guest analyst returning to CNBC after
controversial comments

NEW YORK (AP) -- Money manager James
Cramer will return to CNBC as a guest analyst Wednesday after being
pulled for one episode while the network reviewed controversial comments
he made about the stock of a small Internet company.

[ WavePhore Inc. ] complained that Cramer said on the Dec. 2 CNBC
program "Squawk Box" that he had tried to "short" WavePhore Inc.'s stock
-- a legal investment strategy based on the expectation that a company's
stock price will fall. Cramer has denied that he tried to short the stock and
said he did not mean to give that impression.

Cramer has been appearing biweekly as an unpaid guest analyst on
"Squawk Box" for about a year, but CNBC asked him not to appear on last
week's show while the network reviewed his comments. CNBC spokesman
George Jamison said Monday that the network would discuss the results of
its review on Wednesday's "Squawk Box."

"He was never suspected of doing anything wrong. It was just a matter of
reviewing the way in which the information was presented and its
appropriateness," Jamison said.

In short-selling, an investor bets on a decline in a stock's price. The investor
sells borrowed stock, hoping for a drop in the price before buying shares on
the open market to return the borrowed stock.

WavePhore stock had soared 72 percent to $15.25 the day before
Cramer's comments but have fallen sharply since, closing Monday at
$8.371/2 on the Nasdaq Stock Market. WavePhore has asked the
Securities and Exchange Commission and the Nasdaq to investigate trading
prior to the remarks.

Cramer has said he does not own any shares of WavePhore and that he
discloses all of his holdings to CNBC and other media where he appears,
including The New York Observer and TheStreet.Com, the Internet
investment news service he co-founded two years ago.

Publication Date: December 21, 1998
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