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To: fut_trade who wrote (11145)	6/15/1998 3:01:00 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Respond to of 27307

Peter, since today is short interest measurement day, it will be interesting to see what's left in AMZN in particular after its 60% in two weeks run. Anyway, I asked about the float numbers only because when I checked the Yahoo profile (on Yahoo), it said 6.9 million which seemed too low. Of course, on AMZN it says 6.0 million even though Yahoo's own insider trades data for AMZN shows almost 800,000 shares (post-split) worth of 144 sales (and I think that is low also). I wonder if the reason YHOO hasn't really participated in this most recent 'net stock frenzy is simply that too many shorts had already given up on it. YHOO's short interest dropped 18.6% in May from April. AMZN's, OTOH, rose by 27% to 4.3 million shares which is significantly bigger than any provable float number. Regards, Bob