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Biotech / Medical : VVUS: VIVUS INC. (NASDAQ)

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To: BigKNY3 who wrote (7293)	4/20/1998 1:51:00 PM
From: incomep	Read Replies (1) of 23519

BigKNY3: I emailed Nina to comment about the rumors posted by Mr. Elvis (Dr-in-the house) on the Yahoo board. And this is her response: "Sorry, VIVUS cannot comment on conversations the Company may have had with journalists or potential partners". "May have had?" for a long, this sounds encouraging. For a short, by looking the market reaction, no one cares this issue. Dr-in-the-house (sound he is in charge of a hedgefund) have heard of 2 rumors on the street. I am not posting this to hype vivus stock. For the record I am long vivus so the shorts will indeed think that what I post is untrue. 1)CNBC will be airing a piece on vivus in the near future. I spoke with ir at vivus and they confirmed that they are speaking with CNBC about getting air time on an ED piece. I suspect that there will be input from all the ED players. I also suspect that Wilson will be interviewed. It probably will be similar to the report done last summer which involved Wilson and several doctors speaking about ED and available treatments. I don't recall for sure but I think there was a CEO from another ED company in that interview. 2)This one is a doozy. I was told that last year vivus was in talks in regards to being bought out. At the time the share price was around 50 presplit. I was also told that talks broke down because vivus management thought that a buy out in the 50's (25 now) was too low. I now hear (again rumor only), that management is at the table again discussing a merger or buyout agreement. I have heard of prices as low as 15 and as high as 25. If these rumors are true, there is some serious money to be made on the long side at these levels. I also spoke with vivus ir and was not given a clear answer ie I wasn't told that a takeover was going to occur but I also was not told that it was not going to occur. The latest news I heard on this rumor was today at about 11am EST. I think that all the accumulating of this stock from 12 on down was done by institutions with some type of knowledge in regards to this possible scenario. Again, I have no solid proof. Others should check with any and all other sources available to them. Good Luck. Buying at these levels IMO poses little if any down side risk and a lot of upside potential in the possibly short and most certainly long term outlook.

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