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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1998 Short Picks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Wexler who wrote (4810)	3/11/1998 10:48:00 PM
From: Ploni	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18691

Subject: EK Bill, I know you wouldn't forget this, but for the sake of those people relatively new to shorting, I thought I'd mention: If a short seller has a position in a stock that pays dividends, and he holds the stock short when it goes ex-div., his broker will debit his account for the dividend, in order to pay it to the account that supplied him with the stock. I mention this now because Kodak pays a nice dividend, 2.7%