RE:US shorts If an Amarican investor sees they have 40 M cash and they have 5O M in debt........., and they see that of the 76 M shares there is a free float of 75 M ....... they think a decline in the share price is obvious and they short it!!!!! The investors know that at some near point in the future they have to do an offering, otherwise hey wouldn't have come to the nasdaq.
"Hope" is not the word they use and work with in the States......