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To: GST who wrote (140176)	3/3/2002 10:59:12 PM
From: H James Morris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164685

>>"When you restrict short-sellers, the market knows current prices are artificially higher," and in the long term, such a move holds down stock prices, says Hoshi. Straszheim also points out that short-sellers are often the best friends of the longs: When the longs are in control, the shorts scramble to cover their shorts by frantically buying stocks, sending shares inordinately higher. "Short-selling is a feature of equity markets" around the globe, says Straszheim. uniontrib.com >>Crackdown on short-selling likely to prop up Tokyo stocks<< sg.biz.yahoo.com