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To: Arnie Doolittle who wrote (4508)2/6/1998 12:23:00 PM
From: kjs  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 10227
 
I've had nxtl for a while, but I hadn't noticed that the
volume of shares that are being shorted. Has this been
common and what are the long erm effects of this?

Largest Short Positions (from Briefing.com)

Company Symb Jan 15 Dec 15 Change

WorldCom Inc. WCOM 63,972,626 71,536,287 -7,563,661
Intel Corp. INTC 35,501,390 31,503,192 3,998,198
TeleCommun A TCI TCOMA 29,785,407 30,226,185 -440,778
Dell Computer DELL 22,617,817 18,203,322 4,414,495
Nextel Communicat NXTL 22,376,353 21,988,446 387,907
Apple Computer AAPL 19,431,998 19,876,688 -444,690
Applied Materials AMAT 17,326,797 12,975,263 4,351,534
Microsoft Corp. MSFT 17,046,371 15,644,513 1,401,858



To: Arnie Doolittle who wrote (4508)2/6/1998 12:25:00 PM
From: Mark McLeod  Respond to of 10227
 
Arnie, the reason we ask you questions is that you have vision and most of the rest of us wear bifocals.

Mark