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

To: VLAD who wrote (8848)	6/1/1998 6:19:00 PM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23519

<<I hope my inquiry will help us find out how a stock can carry a 70% short interest, have a sharp monthly increase in short interest and yet not be shortable during that time period. You can always short this stock,and any other stocks >$5, in Datek. Yes, they allow you to short the shares that are not even there. Look at what happened to KTEL! Its short interest is even bigger than the number of float, maybe several times of bigger. Go figure. However, this kind of pyramid short is not necessarily bad for the longs.