Omeros fires back af­ter an on­line short at­tack whit­tles down its shares

These days, a pop­u­lar tweet — even an anony­mous one — can dri­ve a stock up or down in a mat­ter of min­utes. For Omeros $OMER, the fall­out from a dig­i­tal dust-up caused a painful 20%-plus bite out of its stock price, af­ter “Art Doyle Re­search” post­ed a re­port on­line ac­cus­ing the com­pa­ny of ly­ing, cheat­ing and all kinds of chi­canery.

This morn­ing, Omeros fired back at “Art Doyle,” claim­ing that the re­port was the work of anony­mous short sell­ers who had found a handy and il­lic­it weapon to use in an at­tack.

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