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      "text": "Muddy Waters Capital LLC (\"Muddy Waters\") is an investment advisor to private funds. Muddy Waters has analyzed the U.K.-listed company IQE plc (\"IQE\") and is hereby publishing the outcome and the conclusions of our analysis, which is based on publicly available information. Funds Muddy Waters manages are short shares of IQE and for this reason there might be a conflict of interest.",
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      "text": "On February 2nd, a firm called ShadowFall circulated a report criticizing IQE's accounting for two joint ventures. IQE responded on February 5th, calling the contents of the report \"without merit\" and \"misleading\". Our research has been independent of ShadowFall, and ShadowFall's report does not address the vast majority of the issues with IQE's accounts we have identified.",
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