Below is the short interest is certain stocks listed on the Nasdaq as of February 15,2007. Comparisons in positions are made to those as of January 12, 2007.
Largest Short Positions
Sirius 125.1 million
Level 3 110.0 million
Charter Comm 83.8 million
Yahoo! 79.9 million
Microsoft 78.1 million
Intel 63.5 million
Comcast 48.5 million
Amazon 46.1 million
Symantec 44.1 million
Cisco 42.5 million
Oracle 40.9 million
Applied Mater 40.7 million
Sun Micro 38.5 million
Largest Increases In Short Position
Lawson Software 10.2 million increase
Borland 6.8 million
Sirius 6.3 million
RF Micro 5.8 million
UTStarcom 5.2 million
Express Script 5.2 million
Conexant 4.5 million
Sun Micro 4.2 million
Largest Decreases In Short Positions
Microsoft 30.3 million decrease
Cisco 21.8 million
Oracle 17.3 million
Applied Mater 14.8 million
Brocade 7.4 million
Apple 6.7 million
Broadcom 6.4 million
Comcast 5.5 million
XM 5.0 million
Dell 4.3 million
Yahoo! 4.2 million
Data from WSJ and Nasdaq
Douglas A. McIntyre
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