Below is the short interest in certain stocks traded on Nasdaq. The figures are as of October 31 and compare to numbers posted on October 15, 2007
Largest Short Positions
Company Share Short
Level 3 (LVLT) 139.6 million shares short
Microsoft (MSFT) 101.3 million
Charter (CHTR) 99.5 million
Sirius (SIRI) 79.5 million
Intel (INTC) 75.9 million
Largest Increases In Short Position
Company Increase In Short Position
Microsoft 23.9 million increase
Dell (DELL) 10,4 million
Yahoo! (YHOO) 8.0 million
BEA Systems (BEAS) 6.9 million
Comcast (CMCSA) 5.6 million
Largest Decreases In Short Position
Company Decrease In Shares Short
Hologic (HOLX) 8.5 million shares decrease
Oracle (ORCL) 7.6 million shares
Juniper (JNPR) 6.0 million shares
Sirius 5.6 million shares
Applied Materials (AMAT) 5.5 million shares
Data from Reuters and Nasdaq
Douglas A. McIntyre
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