September Nasdaq Short Interest

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Published: September 26, 2007 3:41 am

Short interest in several large Nasdaq traded companies fell sharply in September. The figures are calculated as of September 14 and are compared to numbers from August 15, 2007.

Short interest in Level 2 (LVLT) fell 6.3 million to 123 million. Comcast (CMCSA) short interest fell 16.1 million shares to 97.2 million. Shares sold short in Yahoo! (YHOO) dropped 11 million to 51.3 million.

Stocks that saw large increases in short interest included Sun Microsystems (JAVA) where share short hit 89.5 million, up 28.5 million.

Largest Short Positions

Company Shares Short

Level 3 123 milllion shares short

Comcast 97.1 million

Charter (CHTR) 95.4 million

Microsoft (MSFT) 83.0 million

Sirius (SIRI) 81.1 million

Intel (INTC) 74.4 million

Sun 69.5 million

Yahoo! 51.3 million

Cisco (CSCO) 48.3 million

Oracle (ORCL) 43.2 million

Symantec (SYMC) 39.0 million

Amazon (AMZN) 38.2 million

Largest Increases

Sun 28.4 million

Atmel (ATML) 22.2 million

RF Micro (RFMD) 10.5 million

Network Appliance (NTAP) 8.8 million

Verisign (VRSN) 7.0 million

Take-Two (TTWO) 6.1 million

Largest Decreases

Comcast 18.1 million share decrease

Microsoft 14.1 million share decreae

Appled Materials 13.1 million

Yahoo! 11.0 million

Sirius 9.9 million

Intel (INTC) 9.8 million

Cisco 9.1 million

Data from NASDAQ and WSJ

Douglas A. McIntyre

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