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To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (3272)5/24/2002 12:28:12 PM
From: Gottfried  Respond to of 95616
 
Sarmad, from the post you linked >It is an open secret among seasoned bears that only a small fraction of short sales these days are the result of rigorous and original securities analysis. Nowadays more and more shares are sold for no better reason than that "the market is going down."<

Mirror image of 1Q2000.

Gottfried



To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (3272)5/24/2002 12:33:48 PM
From: BWAC  Respond to of 95616
 
Heck and that is just on the NYSE. The Nasdaq short interest is probably insane.



To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (3272)5/24/2002 12:34:08 PM
From: Ian@SI  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 95616
 
Post is a month out of date. May numbers have been reported for NYSE, Short Interest was down about 2% from April.