NYSE Short Interest For January 2007

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Below are the largest short positions and changes in short positions for stocks traded on the NYSE. The data for January is as of January 12, 2007 as compared to December 12, 2006.

Largest Short Positions

Ford Motor (F)     175 million shares      up 30 million

Qwest (Q)           130 million shares       up 17 million

TimeWarn TWX)      86 million shares       up 7 million

LSI (LSI)                65 million shares       up 14 million

GM (GM)               58 million shares      up 7 million

Exxon (XOM)         50 million shares      down 8 million

Pfizer  (PFE)          45 million shares      down 6 million

AT&T (T)                44 million shares      down 115 million

Disney (DIS)          44 million shares      down 1 million

Rite Aid (RAD)        42 million shares      up 3 million

Halliburton (HAL)     41 million shares      down 3 million

Interpublic (IPG)      39 million shares      up 3 million

EMC (EMC)            38 million shares      flat

Verizon  (VZ)          38 million shares      down 4 million

Merck  (MRK)         35 million shares      up 3 million

Wal-Mart (WMT)     35 million shares      up 3 million

Hewltt-Pckrd (HPQ)  35 million shares     up 5 million

Largest Changes Up

Ford  (F)   up 30 million

Qwest (Q)  up 17 million

LSI (LSI)   up 14 million

TimeW  (TWX)  up 8 million

GM  (GM)   up 7 million

Hewltt-Pckrd (HPQ)   up 5 million

Largest Changes Down

AT&T (T)  down 115 million

Exxon  (XOM)  down 8 million

CVS  (CVS)   down 7 million

Pfizer  (PFE)  down 6 million

Sprint  (S)  down 5 million

Data from Barron’s and NYSE

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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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