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Message| (56)    First things first, I must congratulate my
fellow SA contributor Ashraf Eassa on a particularly prescient
call he made regarding BlackBerry (BBRY) on 22nd of September:
I wouldn't be bold enough to short the stock here, as I'd still
be pretty worried about a potential "buyout". That being said,
the odds are that this stock goes lower and that the price you
see today (~$9) will be the eventual "take-over" price (if it
does indeed get taken over).  On the following day, the stock
hit a new 52 week low of $8.19, only for the trading of the
shares to get halted as the following news hit the wire:    Now
let's get the obvious out of the way: with BlackBerry shares
closing at $8.82 on Sept. 23, the upside to the potential buy-
out price is a mere 2%, so I think you have to be crazy to be
buying shares at these levels.  Another fellow SA contributor
thinks buying in might make sense:  Very likely : Buyout goes
through, buyers at $8.83