NYSE Short Interest, February 2007

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Below is the short interest for selected stocks traded on the NYSE as of February 15, 2007. Changes compare to the short interest on January 12.

Largest Short Postions

Ford                 190 million shares

LSI                    76 million shares

Qwest               74 million shares

Home Depot      72 million shares

TimeWarner      66 million shares

CVS                   51 million shares

Exxon                50 million shares

GM                    49 million shares

Pfizer                47 million shares

Sprint                47 million shares

Blockbuster        41 million shares

RiteAide            40 million shares

Halliburton        39 million shares

AT&T                38 million shares

Kraft                 38 million shares

Largest Increases In Short Position

CVX                   21 million up

US Bancorp        17 million up

Duke Energy      15 million up

Ford                 15 million up

LSI                   12 million up

AMD                   8 milion up

Blockbuster          8 million up

Largest Decreases In Short Postion

Home Depot       19 million down

TimeWarner       19 million down

Merck                 13 million down

HP                      12 million down

GE                      12 million down

AIG                     12 million down

Sprint                  12 million down

Qwest                  12 million down

Lear                     10 million down

Altria                    9 million down

GM                       9 million down

Coca Cola             8 million down

Disney                  8 million down

Boston Sci            7 million down

Data from WSJ and NYSE

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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