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Nasdaq January Short Interest

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Below are the January short interest figures for selected stocks. The numbers are posted for January 12, 2007 as compared to December 15, 2006.

Data from NASDAQ and The Wall Street Journal.

Largest Short Positions
Rank JAN 12 DEC 15 CHANGE
1 Nasdaq-100 Trust 155,461,554 190,431,284 -34,969,730
2 Sirius Satellite 118,871,835 141,092,901 -22,221,066
3 Level 3 Communicat 108,814,590 102,576,552 6,238,038
4 Microsoft Corp 108,460,628 102,635,133 5,825,495
5 Charter Comm A 84,118,527 76,211,610 7,906,917
6 Yahoo! Inc 84,085,547 78,124,708 5,960,839
7 Intel Corp 66,776,874 68,670,817 -1,893,943
8 Cisco Systems 64,319,369 63,173,253 1,146,116
9 Oracle Corp 58,206,008 52,177,280 6,028,728
10 Applied Materials 55,443,465 75,084,723 -19,641,258
11 Comcast Corp A 54,011,931 56,710,163 -2,698,232
12 Amazon.com 44,914,028 42,777,876 2,136,152
13 Symantec Corp 44,246,565 47,140,494 -2,893,929
14 JetBlue Airways 37,684,739 39,067,146 -1,382,407
15 eBay Inc 34,523,163 37,202,716 -2,679,553
16 Sun Microsystems 34,300,594 36,757,888 -2,457,294
17 XM Satellite Radio 33,975,151 33,106,575 868,576
18 Amgen Inc 30,116,861 27,624,391 2,492,470
19 Take-Two Sftwr 29,987,435 30,280,613 -293,178
20 Nuance Communicat 26,622,990 24,153,945 2,469,045
21 Apple Inc 25,680,493 24,458,604 1,221,889
22 ON Semiconductor 25,182,062 23,035,742 2,146,320
23 Nektar Therapeut 24,799,308 22,567,348 2,231,960
24 Starbucks Corp 23,988,546 26,311,357 -2,322,811
25 Broadcom Corp A 23,531,348 24,291,374 -760,026
Largest Positive Changes
Rank JAN 12 DEC 15 CHANGE
1 E*Trade Fin’l Corp 11,166,282 0 11,166,282
2 Charter Comm A 84,118,527 76,211,610 7,906,917
3 Level 3 Communicat 108,814,590 102,576,552 6,238,038
4 Oracle Corp 58,206,008 52,177,280 6,028,728
5 Yahoo! Inc 84,085,547 78,124,708 5,960,839
6 Microsoft Corp 108,460,628 102,635,133 5,825,495
7 Huntington Bncshrs 10,494,568 5,687,398 4,807,170
8 AtheroGenics Inc 18,671,190 14,358,621 4,312,569
9 Syntax-Brillian 12,610,223 8,856,868 3,753,355
10 Dendreon Corp 16,799,777 13,055,168 3,744,609
11 Mentor Graphics 10,969,045 7,351,106 3,617,939
12 Cadence Design Sys 14,585,552 11,007,589 3,577,963
13 Winn Dixie Stores 3,634,741 161,562 3,473,179
14 Garmin Ltd 13,130,621 9,700,022 3,430,599
15 Novellus Systems 15,115,192 12,180,548 2,934,644
16 OmniVision Technol 22,526,922 19,828,410 2,698,512
17 Teva Pharma Indus 16,325,062 13,738,652 2,586,410
18 TiVo Inc 14,598,248 12,103,317 2,494,931
Largest Negative Changes
Rank JAN 12 DEC 15 CHANGE
1 Nasdaq-100 Trust 155,461,554 190,431,284 -34,969,730
2 Sirius Satellite 118,871,835 141,092,901 -22,221,066
3 Applied Materials 55,443,465 75,084,723 -19,641,258
4 MannKind Corp 7,046,258 16,900,429 -9,854,171
5 Telik Inc 11,725,457 17,818,996 -6,093,539
6 Qualcomm Inc 19,552,806 24,851,808 -5,299,002
7 UTStarcom Inc 19,500,017 23,133,682 -3,633,665
8 Urban Outfitters 20,876,218 23,798,861 -2,922,643
9 Symantec Corp 44,246,565 47,140,494 -2,893,929
10 Comcast Corp A 54,011,931 56,710,163 -2,698,232
11 eBay Inc 34,523,163 37,202,716 -2,679,553
12 Network Appliance 13,531,315 16,128,651 -2,597,336
13 Sun Microsystems 34,300,594 36,757,888 -2,457,294
14 JDS Uniphase 13,953,432 16,393,735 -2,440,303
15 LbtyMdHldgIntvA 6,879,097 9,284,555 -2,405,458
16 Starbucks Corp 23,988,546 26,311,357 -2,322,811
17 Denny’s Corp 3,766,543 5,763,532 -1,996,989
18 Intel Corp 66,776,874 68,670,817 -1,893,943

Data from Nasdaq and The Wall Street Journal

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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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