NYSE Short Interest For May 2007

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Below are the major short positions and changes for the period measured on May 15 compared to April 13, 2007

Largest Short Position

Ford                           209.8 million shares short

Motorola                     125.7 million

Time Warner                86.7 million

CVC Carmark              80.9 million

Qwest                         79.7 million

AMD                           73.3 million

GE                             53.5 million

Altria                          53.2 million

GM                            52.3 million

Pfizer                         52.1 million

Sprint                         49.7 million

Largest Increases In Short Position

CVS Caremark           46.7 million up

Valero                       35.3 million

Altria                         29.3 million

ADM                         28.1 million

Regions Fin’l              16.8 million

Time Warner              15.7 million

Constelltn Brds          14.1 million

Largest Decreases In Short Position

Halliburton            66.4 million down

NYSE Euronext    16.9 million   

KBR                    15.2 million

Conseco               8.4 million

EMC                    6.8 million

CBS                    6.4 million

News Corp           5.6 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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