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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (5254)	1/31/2003 11:28:42 PM
From: MarkFin	Read Replies (2) of 25522

Brian, CNBC had an interesting segment on the topic of hedge funds and their ability to operate in the dark. The main point of the segment was that they can take a short position and publicly start a negative publicity campaign, even using misinformation, on a stock and cover when the masses sell. The SEC is looking at it closely and may require disclosure of their holdings. I agree that hedge funds may also be one of the reasons you do not see the bargain buying on bad news. They can improve their short positions by selling it short even deeper with little resistance. I was amazed to see that BRKS is short at 15% of their float and MKSI is short an amazing 38% of their float. Mark

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