As you will see, most of the top technology stocks from the NASDAQ 100 saw an increase in the number of shares being sold short from mid-November to late November. With the last 9 of 12 days being up days, it is hard to gather much insight from this new short interest report, but here are the changes:
Stock (Ticker) NOV. 28 NOV. 14 CHANGE
Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) 36,327,496 35,641,880 +1.92%
Apple Inc. (AAPL) 21,921,767 26,757,152 -18.07
Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) 47,991,497 47,370,952 +1.31%
Dell Inc. (DELL) 44,201,119 45,245,350 -2.31%
Google Inc. (GOOG) 6,469,418 6,533,382 -0.98%
Intel Corporation (INTC) 93,321,145 84,986,069 +9.81%
Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) 73,991,139 71,614,082 +3.32%
Oracle Corporation (ORCL) 57,646,941 48,286,277 +19.39%
Research In Motion (RIMM) 15,897,208 17,603,723 -9.69
Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) 44,495,373 35,689,747 +24.67%
Jon C. Ogg
December 10, 2008