NYSE Short Interest For August

Investing

Douglas A. McIntyre

Published: August 22, 2007 4:32 am

Below are short interest figures for major companies traded on the NYSE as of August 15 compared to July 13, 2007

Largest Short Positions

Ford (F) 191.9 million shares short

Countrywide (CFC) 83.6 million

Qwest (Q) 83.3 million

AMD (AMD) 81.7 million

Tenet 69.8 million

Best Buy (BBI) 68.7 million

Time Warner (TWX) 67.0 million

GE (GE) 67.3 million

Wells Fargo 63.0 million

Home Depot (HD) 61.8 million

Altrai (MO) 54.9 million

GM (GM) 52.7 million

Micron (MU) 50.9 million

Largest Increases

Countrywide (CFC) 32.2 million share increase

Best Buy (BBI) 22.3 million

Home Depot (HD) 20.8 million

Tenet 19.1 million

Fannie Mae 17.1 million

Schering-Plough 15.7 million

JPMorgan Chase (JPM) 11.6 million

Wachovia 9.9 million

Wells Fargo 9.3 million

Moody’s Corp 8.3 million

General Electric (GE) 8.2 million

Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) 8.1 million

Largest Decreases

Motorola (MOT) 95.1 million decrease

LSI 27.0 million decrease

Ford 21.0 million decrease

Natl Semi 14.0 million decrease

CBS (CBS) 12.8 million decrease

Texas Instru (TXN) 12.0 million decrease

IBM (IBM) 11.9 million decrease

Verizon (VZ) 10.7 million decrease

Data from NYSE and WSJ

Douglas A. McIntyre

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