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

To: VLAD who wrote (20859)	4/20/1999 12:39:00 PM
From: Brent	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23519

VLAD, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. Vivus shorts are no more ethically, morally, or financially wrong than we are. They see the price going down so they try to make money by shorting. We see the price going up so we try to make money by buying. I am short some stocks and I am long others. Misinformation in the public (CNBC, Joe Kernan, or public opinion) is not caused by the shorts. It is the problem of Vivus PR. Shorts cause extreme prices just as longs do. Does AOL deserve a P/E ratio of 600? I'd say that is an extreme caused by longs. In the end they may be right, they may be wrong. But neither side is evil or the 'enemy'. Vivus stock price will go up if earnings and revenue appear. It will go down if they don't. It is that simple. Brent