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September NYSE Short Interest: Housing And Retail Under Pressure

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The September short interest for NYSE stocks is out, and a number of big names in mortgages, retail ,and housing say bets against them move up. The figures compare shares short on September 14 compared to August 15, 2007.

Among the companies with the largest increase in short position were Jones Apparel (JNY), DR Horton (DHI), and Thornburg Mortgage (TMA),

Ford (F) topped that short list with 191.1 milion shares short, little changed from August. Countrywide, Home Depot, and Best Buy were also in the top ten.

Below is the short interest in selected companies.

Largest Short Positions

Company                                       Shares Short

Ford (F)                                          191.1 million shares short

Qwest (Q)                                        85.9 million shares short

AMD (AMD)                                     84.4 million shares short

Counrtywide (CFC)                           78.7 million shares short

Time Warner (TWX)                          64.9 million shares short

Home Depot (HD)                             63.8 million shares short

Best Buy (BBY)                               62.8 million shares short

GE (GE)                                          59.7 million shares short

GM (GM)                                         56.3 miillion shares short

Altria (MO)                                       50.1 million shares short

Sprint (S)                                         47.8 million shares short

Largest Increases In Short Position

Company                                         Increase

Marsh & McLennan                           Up 20.2 million

Jones Apparel                                   Up 19.9 million

Rolm & Haas                                    Up 16.1 million

Rite Aid                                            Up 10.7 million

DR Horton                                        Up 8.4 million

Delta                                                Up 6.8 million

Thornburg                                         Up 5.7 million

Texas Instruments (TXN)                    Up 5.3 million

MBIA                                                Up 4.1 million

Largest Decreases In Short Position

Company                                          Decrease

Tenet                                                Down 16.1 million

Wells Fargo                                       Down 15.6 million

CVS                                                  Down 15.5 million

Schering-Plough                                 Down 15.2 million

Fannie Mae                                        Down 14.6 million

Wachovia                                           Down 13.8 million

Bank of America (BAC)                       Down 9.5 million

Valero                                                Down 9.2 million

News Corp (NWS)                               Down 7.8 million

JP Morgan (JPM)                                 Down 7.7 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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