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NYSE Short Interest, April, 2007

Short interest for major stocks listed on the NYSE as of April 13 compared to March 15.

Largest Positions

Ford                       200.1 million shares

Motorola                 125.8 million

Halliburton              113.8 million

Qwest                      76.8 mllion

Time Warner             71.0 million

CBS                        55.5 million

Sprint                       53.4 million

Pfizer                       50.3 million

Exxon                      49.8 million

GM                          49.7 million

GE                          43.4 million

EMC                       45.7 million

Disney                    45.6 million

AMD                       45.2 million

Largest Increases

Motorola                    up 103.0 million shares

Halliburton                 up 53.8 million

Vale Rio Doce            up 11.3 million

Wash Mut                  up 10.6 million

Wendy’s                    up 10.6 million

Chesapeake Engy      up 9.9 million

Willis Group               up 9.5 million

IndyMac                    up 9.4 million

Micron Technol          up 8.9 million

Time Warner             up 8.2 million

Countrywide Fin’l       up 8.0 million

Horton                      up 7.5 million

Lowe’s                      up 7.4 million

Largest Decreases

CVS Caremark          down 38.7 million shares

Weyerhaeuser           down 35.9 million

LSI Corp                   down 34.0 million

Domtar Corp             down 33.0 million

Kraft Foods              down 26.4 million

NYSE Euronext        down 9.0 million

CBS                        down 8.4 million

Exxon Mobil             down 8.3 million

DTE                         down 7.3 million

Data from NYSE and WSJ

Douglas A. McIntyre

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