LHSP - Kommentar aus Barrons bzgl WSJ und Shorts - 500 Beiträge pro Seite

[Carnardo]

Kurzzusammenfassung für faule Leser:

Unseriöser Journalismus, wirtschaftliche Interessenskonflikte zw. Eisinger, WSJ und Rocker-Partners.
Rocker ist neben einem Haupt-Shortseller auch einer der großen Shareholder (ca 600000 Aktien), was ihnen ermöglicht, den Kurs durch kurzfristige Verkäufe in die gewünschte Richtung zu treiben.
Auch wird die Frage aufgeworfen, ob diese Technologie viel zu wichtig ist, um sie einem kleinen flämischen Land zu überlassen.
Meiner Meinung nach stehen hier neben nationalen Interessen einer Siegermacht auch handfeste wirtschaftliche Interessen von Mega-Konzernen auf dem Spiel.

Ob Betrug oder nicht, LHSP wird es extrem schwer haben sich durchzusetzen.


Hier die Quelle aus Yahoo-Board:
ING Barings report on lhsp
by: mill175 9/30/00 9:34 pm
Msg: 40057 of 40086

Register journalist Graham Lea specializes in exploring the negative information around L&H. After the first negative article about L&H, on August 8, in which the sales figures in Korea were disputed, the company lost one billion dollars in market value. When WSJ journalist Jesse Eisinger, in his own paper and in other media, bragged about the fact that after each of his articles, the stock price of L&H fell, Lea decided to explore further.

He went to Korea. Yes, he concedes, the trip was paid by L&H, but this is common practice in corporate journalism. He found that L&H in Korea is anything but a paper company, as WSJ pretended. Lea spoke to some 20 senior executives from L&H in Korea, and found 300 workstations in L&H`s offices in Seoul. He further pretends that there were serious problems with the journalistic methods that WSJ used in Seoul. At the WSJ it is policy not to let journalists comment on their own news stories. Eisinger only wants to say that "the newspaper remains committed to the story".

Lea`s allegations against the WSJ are not minor: it all comes to the fact that WSJ has let itself directed by short sellers who aim at a decline of the L&H stock. He points to the fact that Eisinger doesn`t work that long for the WSJ. Before this, he worked for the respected financial news site TheStreet.com, where another journalist, Herb Greenberg, has a comumn in which he regularly attacks L&H. TheStreet.com is 10% controlled by Rocker Partners. Rocker Partners regularly buys airtime on Radio Wallstreet, in which it attacks L&H heavily. And Rocker Partners is very active in shorting L&H shares.

"What they do is in fact speculate on the failure of a company", says Lea. "We cannot say for 100% sure that the whole L&H affair is a consequence of the agressive short selling techniques, but it is the most probable explanation. I know that the SEC has received complaints from people who have a long position in L&H, people who have an interest in the well-being of the Flemish company."

Lea concedes that he is not sure about the amount of the short position of Rocker in L&H, but "it certainly runs in millions of dollars". Rocker also has a long position of 562,700 shares in L&H, but that is not in contradiction, says Lea. "Thanks to this long position, Rocker can easily make the stock price fall by selling a small amount of these shares, which is favorable for his short position".

Lea doesn`t exclude that there is another aspect, i.e. the fact that certain US financial circles find that the speech technology of L&H is far too important to remain in foreign, Flemish, hands. "In that sense, the struggle about speech technology resembles the struggle on life or death between Microsoft and IBM in the beginning of the nineties, about which operating system would survive: OS/2 or Windows

[dosto]

könnte es sein dass die amis die firma billig übernehmen
wollen und wer kommt dafür in frage?

[Carnardo]

IBM, Microsoft um nur die 2 größten Interessenten zu nennen. Auch Philipps wird sich LHSP nicht so einfach vor der Nase wegschnappen lassen.
Wer LHSP übernimmt, hat das Rennen um die neue industrielle Revolution gewonnen.