NYSE Short Interest, April, 2007

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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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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

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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