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To: craig crawford who wrote (130423)8/22/2001 12:16:59 PM
From: H James Morris  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 164684
 
<if your cost basis is $10
It's now close to $7.
>inflation is coming back
What makes you think that? A weakening dollar?



To: craig crawford who wrote (130423)8/22/2001 2:46:40 PM
From: H James Morris  Respond to of 164684
 
Tick tock...tick tock...tick tock. <g>
Btw
Almost all of that short interest increase is due to the convert offering. It has nothing to do with speculators gambling on a declining stock price.
The following is a table of the ten biggest short positions
held for the month ended August 15, ranked in descending order:

COMPANY SHORT POSITION
(in millions)

Lucent Technologies 115.3
Sprint PCS Group 102.5
Global Crossing 94.2
Cendant 89.7
Motorola 72.1
AOL Time Warner 70.3
Nortel Networks 63.9
Rite Aid 60.7
Vodafone Group 54.5
AT&T 54.3