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