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Biotech / Medical : VVUS: VIVUS INC. (NASDAQ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: EyeDrMike who wrote (4625)	1/15/1998 7:44:00 PM
From: VincentTH	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23519

Has it occurred to anyone that the CC about mfg problem was just a smoke screen for the lawsuit settlement write off? I have a gut feeling that knowing that the lawsuit would eat up earnings, management decided to go ahead with announcing the production shortfall in order to soften the blow. Production shortfalls and large inventory do not go along very well. Comments? I also thought about diminishing demand being the real issue, but if we take away the lawsuit settlement, VVUS would have met earning estimate. So why announcing the production problem? Still long on VVUS, but not as optimistic as before.