Below is the short interest for selected stocks traded on the Nasdaq. The figures are as of September 28 and compare to numbers as of September 14, 2007.
Largest Short Positions
Company Shares Short
Level 3 (LVLT) 128.0 million shares short
Charter Comm (CHTR) 91.0 million
Microsoft (MSFT) 82.9 million
Sirius (SIRI) 82.4 million
Intel (INTC) 72.3 million
Sun (JAVA) 64.9 million
Yahoo! (YHOO) 51.8 million
Comcast (CMCSA) 50.5 million
Cisco (CSCO) 46.0 million
Oracle (ORCL) 41.6 million
Amazon (AMZN) 36.8 million
Largest Increases In Short Position
Company Increase In Shares Short
BEA Systems (BEAS) 8.5 million increase
Level 3 6.0 million
Dell (DELL) 3.9 million
Amgen (AMGN) 3.6 million
Novell (NOVL) 2.9 million
Largest Decreases In Short Position
Company Decrease In Shares Short
Comcast 52.0 million share decrease
Take-Two (TTWO) 8.1 million
Sun 4.6 million
Charter 4.4 million
Data from Nasdaq and WSJ
Douglas A. McIntyre
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