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NYSE Short Interest, November 2006

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Below are the short positions for stocks traded on the NYSE at mid-November compared to one month earlier.

Largest Short Positions
Rank NOV 15 OCT 13 Change
1 AT&T Inc 134,932,390 134,856,678 75,712
2 Ford Motor Co 101,824,318 100,471,907 1,352,411
3 Lucent Technol 93,061,911 94,645,672 -1,583,761
4 Sprint Nextel 74,778,251 67,980,467 6,797,784
5 Qwest Communications 74,034,168 78,349,233 -4,315,065
6 Time Warner 66,254,788 67,516,192 -1,261,404
7 Gen’l Mtr 60,775,992 63,866,888 -3,090,896
8 Exxon Mobil Corp 52,633,437 48,949,833 3,683,604
9 Interpublic Grp 45,658,923 43,788,340 1,870,583
10 Pfizer Inc 44,733,067 44,113,543 619,524
11 Halliburton Co 44,418,339 46,106,459 -1,688,120
12 Disney (Walt) 42,120,213 47,100,121 -4,979,908
13 Bank of America 36,123,806 38,324,050 -2,200,244
14 Merck & Co 35,852,991 37,369,247 -1,516,256
15 Eastman Kodak Co 35,736,793 34,515,445 1,221,348
16 General Electric 35,616,248 52,211,168 -16,594,920
17 Verizon Communic 35,340,350 44,370,304 -9,029,954
18 Rite Aid Corp 35,326,261 29,755,803 5,570,458
19 Micron Technol 34,744,359 33,607,631 1,136,728
20 Tenet Healthcare 34,743,794 31,567,538 3,176,256
21 Wal-Mart Stores 34,336,701 36,684,738 -2,348,037
22 Chesapeake Engy 33,749,280 32,772,908 976,372
23 Lowe’s Cos 33,466,883 32,971,272 495,611
24 Home Depot 32,790,002 25,494,978 7,295,024
25 Wells Fargo 31,462,801 32,150,249 -687,448
26 Hewlett-Packard 30,151,757 34,576,693 -4,424,936
27 Blockbuster Inc 29,113,229 30,623,877 -1,510,648
28 LSI Logic Corp 29,074,574 29,505,177 -430,603
29 Amer Int’l Group 27,949,808 27,759,693 190,115
30 Reynolds American 27,673,904 29,910,959 -2,237,055
31 News Corp A 27,547,497 26,735,029 812,468
32 Chevron Corp 27,481,944 27,683,179 -201,235
33 Texas Instruments 27,114,257 36,220,732 -9,106,475
34 Boston Scientific 26,899,456 29,820,021 -2,920,565
35 JPMorgan Chase 26,618,325 26,457,840 160,485
36 Kraft Foods A 26,405,241 24,608,559 1,796,682
37 Univision Comm A 26,293,761 27,341,368 -1,047,607
38 Countrywide Fin’l 26,237,895 21,881,936 4,355,959
39 Host Hotels&Resrts 25,882,475 22,280,266 3,602,209
40 CVS Corp 25,649,578 10,716,945 14,932,633
41 Altria Group Inc 25,401,588 26,216,978 -815,390
42 Schlumberger Ltd 25,108,006 24,142,313 965,693
43 iShrDJUSRlEst IYR 24,657,378 27,028,551 -2,371,173
44 Advanced Micro Dev 24,524,597 32,311,716 -7,787,119
45 Tyco Int’l 24,476,933 26,102,602 -1,625,669
46 Xcel Energy 24,051,868 20,305,545 3,746,323
47 FPL Grp 23,996,316 35,375,643 -11,379,327
48 Big Lots Inc 23,638,149 24,352,350 -714,201
49 Allied Waste Ind 23,418,898 28,295,805 -4,876,907
50 Washington Mutual 23,126,769 22,747,432 379,337
51 NY Community Bncp 22,932,035 23,686,034 -753,999
52 US Bancorp 22,848,968 23,449,954 -600,986
53 Commerce Bncp-NJ 22,803,332 24,610,444 -1,807,112
54 Cincinnati Bell 22,599,590 21,959,818 639,772
55 Motorola Inc 22,376,757 38,398,718 -16,021,961
56 Centerpoint Energy 22,138,537 16,564,816 5,573,721
57 Six Flags 22,129,606 22,455,808 -326,202
58 DirecTV Group 21,987,580 27,021,620 -5,034,040
59 Goodyear Tire 21,831,047 23,633,159 -1,802,112
Largest Positive Changes
Rank NOV 15 OCT 13 Change
1 CVS Corp 25,649,578 10,716,945 14,932,633
2 Gap Inc 20,922,780 11,972,112 8,950,668
3 Thermo Fisher Sci 19,850,586 11,547,708 8,302,878
4 Home Depot 32,790,002 25,494,978 7,295,024
5 Sprint Nextel 74,778,251 67,980,467 6,797,784
6 Centerpoint Energy 22,138,537 16,564,816 5,573,721
7 Rite Aid Corp 35,326,261 29,755,803 5,570,458
8 iShrSmlcp600 IJR 8,978,107 4,614,739 4,363,368
9 Countrywide Fin’l 26,237,895 21,881,936 4,355,959
10 Coca-Cola Co 13,335,234 9,141,369 4,193,865
11 Norfolk Southern 7,761,663 3,876,734 3,884,929
12 Xcel Energy 24,051,868 20,305,545 3,746,323
13 Exxon Mobil Corp 52,633,437 48,949,833 3,683,604
14 Host Hotels&Resrts 25,882,475 22,280,266 3,602,209
15 Schering-Plough 15,683,870 12,090,841 3,593,029
16 Diamond Offshore 10,449,135 6,904,436 3,544,699
17 Walgreen Co 17,234,131 13,762,092 3,472,039
18 Nat’l City Corp 18,069,933 14,628,043 3,441,890
19 NYSE Group 19,606,098 16,314,117 3,291,981
20 Laboratory Cp Amer 5,752,384 2,467,124 3,285,260
21 Tenet Healthcare 34,743,794 31,567,538 3,176,256
Largest Negative Changes
Rank NOV 15 OCT 13 Change
1 McDonald’s Corp 15,076,700 60,530,686 -45,453,986
2 General Electric 35,616,248 52,211,168 -16,594,920
3 Motorola Inc 22,376,757 38,398,718 -16,021,961
4 FPL Grp 23,996,316 35,375,643 -11,379,327
5 Regions Fin’l 11,135,550 20,542,706 -9,407,156
6 Texas Instruments 27,114,257 36,220,732 -9,106,475
7 Verizon Communic 35,340,350 44,370,304 -9,029,954
8 iShrMSCIJapan EWJ 5,845,706 14,643,432 -8,797,726
9 Fidelity Natl Finl 3,577,419 11,443,829 -7,866,410
10 Advanced Micro Dev 24,524,597 32,311,716 -7,787,119
11 Gateway Inc 13,160,037 18,256,992 -5,096,955
12 DirecTV Group 21,987,580 27,021,620 -5,034,040
13 Disney (Walt) 42,120,213 47,100,121 -4,979,908
14 Allied Waste Ind 23,418,898 28,295,805 -4,876,907
15 Exelon Corp 6,257,815 11,111,761 -4,853,946
16 Hewlett-Packard 30,151,757 34,576,693 -4,424,936
17 Qwest Communications 74,034,168 78,349,233 -4,315,065
18 Amer Tower A 18,875,823 23,183,564 -4,307,741
19 Wyeth 7,561,095 11,847,427 -4,286,332
20 Hilton Htls 9,938,899 14,075,244 -4,136,345
21 Medtronic Inc 13,299,950 17,405,663 -4,105,713
22 Sara Lee Corp 6,980,562 11,066,466 -4,085,904
23 St Jude Medical 3,943,394 7,818,626 -3,875,232
24 Corning Inc 12,579,089 16,426,416 -3,847,327
25 Cypress Semicond 14,578,937 17,999,829 -3,420,892
26 Avon Products 8,015,427 11,311,711 -3,296,284
27 Gen’l Mtr 60,775,992 63,866,888 -3,090,896
28 CBS Corp B 15,573,405 18,634,678 -3,061,273
29 Quantum Corp 5,074,057 8,129,878 -3,055,821
30 Boston Scientific 26,899,456 29,820,021 -2,920,565

Source: NYSE and Wall Street Journal

Douglas A. McIntyre

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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