Mike, you saw this table in this week's Barrons.
What does it mean that AMZN has 42% public shares
sold short, and DELL 3, and MSFT 1?
Company Shares Out- Publicly Traded Float Public Shares
standing Shares Sold Short
@Home 115,073,000 35,647,000 31% 7%
Adobe 67,278,000 58,364,000 87 7
Amazon 50,234,000 17,712,000 35 42
AOL 225,946,000 193,390,000 86 9
brdcast 16,619,000 5,870,000 35 18
CNET 16,696,000 6,207,000 37 51
Dell 1,264,000,000 1,119,377,000 89 3
eBay 37,200,000 3,500,000 9 39
ElecArts 60,642,000 44,797,000 74 4
Excite 50,339,000 24,809,000 49 19
Intuit 55,850,000 47,129,000 84 3
Msoft 2,459,000,000 1,651,426,000 67 1
Netscape 96,417,000 66,957,000 69 5
TMP 26,928,000 8,559,000 32 14
VeriSign 22,616,000 11,006,000 49 2
Yahoo! 114,456,000 58,430,000 51 15
ZiffDvis100,000,000 25,800,000 26 1
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