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To: lindend who wrote (461)	6/1/1999 2:11:00 PM
From: Arthur_Porcari	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1440

Linden, the SEC has nothing to do with regulating which stocks can be borrowed or not. It is the Federal Reserve Board. It comes under Reg. T when dealing with Brokerage Firms and Reg. U when dealing with banks. If Schwab lent money against "Type 1" (Cash Account) stock, then they violated Reg. T. This would even be the case in which a stock is marginable but held in a cash account for a customer. But in the case of BB stocks, they are not marginable under any condition at a brokerage firm and therefor cannot be lent legally. The only instance that I am aware of that a BB stock could be legally shorted is if a short seller made a private arangement with an institution to borrow their paid for shares that are in the institutions possession. However this cannot be done through a legitimate brokerage firm. If you would like to provide the specific transactions, I would be most interested. However, it would be sufficient for you to provide the name of a Schwab representative that allows such a trade. I have a very good friend that has a $10 million trading account at Schwab who has yet to be allowed to short any BB stock. No matter what equity he puts up.