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Technology Stocks : Cymer (CYMI) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jess Beltz who wrote (10565)	11/26/1997 6:42:00 AM
From: Asymmetric	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25960

Cymer Short Interest Rose 23% in Nov. Shares Short Nov Oct Change Ave Trade Vol. CYMER 4,471,949 3,624,304 23.4 1,453,794 That is an unbelievable number of shares shorted. This stock only has a float of 6.6 mil shares - out of a total of 28.34 million shares total (from Briefing.Com). So as a percentage of the shares available for trading, or float, shorted is 67.76%!!!!! Also thought this post was interesting: techstocks.com <<Regarding XXX's comment as to why YYY might be pushing down the stock.....an old and currently illegal but still engaged practice of bear raiding a company...pushing its stock down via short sales and long sales, and then just when it is so grim that no one wants it and wants to throw away their paper certificates of ownership, the bear raider covers the short and grabs major positions in the company. In now way am I suggesting this is what is happening, I am simply saying that this sort of things used to happen all the time and probably is still prevalent.>>