Top NYSE Short Interest Increases (CVS, AMD, HD, MU, WMT, MIR, BIG)

It is always interesting seeing which groups and which stocks saw the biggest changes in short interest.  This list doesn’t show financials because we’ve already shown that individually.  Here are some of the largest key short interest INCREASES from October 31 to November 15:

Stock (Ticker)                    NOV 15            OCT 31           Change
CVS Caremark(CVS)     67,661,461     37,871,140     29,790,321
Advanced Micro (AMD)   68,231,116     67,071,442     1,159,674
Home Depot (HD)          62,955,046     57,367,957     5,587,089
Micron Technol (MU)      58,664,775     51,730,612     6,934,163
Wal-Mart Stores (WMT)  51,603,102     44,236,637     7,366,465
Mirant Corp (MIR)            50,241,294     23,796,710     26,444,584
Big Lots Inc (BIG)            34,616,813     28,812,272     5,804,541   

Jon C. Ogg
November 23, 2007