Below is the short internest in major companies listed on Nasdaq. The figures are as of March 15, 2007 compared to February 25.
Largest Short Positions
Sirius 124 million
Level 3 109 million
Microsoft 94 million
Charter Comm 86 million
Yahoo! 82 million
Comcast 70 million
Intel 63 million
Cisco 55 miillion
Amazon 46 million
Applied Mat 43 million
JetBlue 43 million
Sun Micro 42 million
Oracle 41 million
Symantec 41 million
Ebay 37 million
Amgen 33 million
Largest Increases In Short Position
Microsoft 16 million
Xilinx Inc 13 million
Cisco 12 million
Qualcomm 11 million
KLA-Tencor Corp 10 million
Largest Decreases In Short Position
Symantec 4 million
Comcast spl 3 milion
ON Semi 3 million
Express Scripts 3 million
ADC Telecom 3 million
Juniper 3 million
Data from WSJ and Nasdaq
Douglas A. McIntyre
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