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Wednesday, 03/01/2006 1:07:19 PM

Wednesday, March 01, 2006 1:07:19 PM

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Kag/Erthang: Music to my ears!!! Thanks so much for your wonderful contributions to the board. Playing a little devil's advocate, I will point out that the severe selling pressure on the stock after the ABT announcement could have been a result of delta neutral short selling by the restricted shareholders (ie "selling against the box", but not in the tax sense). Since they couldn't sell, they could have worked with a MM, BD, canadian retail firm, or other entity that is allowed to short sell OTC stocks in order to lock in gains without selling shares. I know this is common practice in PIPE deals, convertibles, unvested options holders, and other investment vehicles where a long position is restricted from outright sale.


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