NYSE Short Interest For July

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Below are key short interest statistics for July. The figures are as of July 13 compared to June 15, 2007

Largest Short Positions

Company                                      Short Position

Ford  (F)                                        213 million shares short

Motorola  (MOT)                             128 million shares

Qwest (Q)                                       82 million

AMD (AMD)                                    81 million

Time Warner (TWX)                         70 million

Micron (MU)                                   60 million

National Semi  (NSM)                     59 million

GE (GE)                                        59 million

CVS  (CVS)                                   59 million

Sprint (S)                                       50 million

Pfizer (PFE)                                   50 million

LSI    (LSI)                                     50 million

Bank of America (BAC)                   49 million

Short Position Increases

Company                                     Increase

Best Buy (BBY)                            Up 30 million

Bank of America                           Up 13 million

Micron (MU)                                 Up 9 million

Schlumberger                               Up 8 million

AMD (AMD)                                 Up 7 million

Beazer (BZH)                               Up 7 million

Largest Decrease In Short Position

Verizon (VZ)                                Down 13 million

Motorola (MOT)                            Down 10 million

IBM (IBM)                                    Down 11 million

Time Warner (TWX)                      Down 9 million

CBS (CBS)                                  Down 7 million

Disney (DIS)                                Down 6 million

HP (HPQ)                                    Down 5 million

Pfizer (PFE)                                Down 5 million

Exxon (XOM)                               Down 4 million

Data from WSJ and NYSE

Douglas A. McIntyre

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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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