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Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) Short Interest Steady, Down In Other Techs

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bearThe short interest in Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) was steady in the period that ended on September 30 at 16 million shares.The bet being made against RIM (NASDAQ:RIMM) rose 13% to 13% to 19.2 million.  The shares short in other major techs stocks dropped.

Shares short in Broadcom (NASDAQ:BRCD) dropped 14% to 19.1 million. Shares short in Juniper (NADSAQ:JNPR) dropped 11% to 36.8 million. The short interest in Symantec (NASDAQ:SYMC)  dropped 8% to 12.9 million shares.

Among major tech stocks Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) short interest was up 9% to 82.1 million shares. Shares short in Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) fell 3% to 60.7 million shares. Shares short in Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) rose 6% for 41.5 million. Shares short in Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) were down 7% to 40.2 million. The short interest in Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) was down 3% to 30.9 million.

Among widely held stocks the short interest in Sirius SX (NASDAQ:SIRI) fell sharply by 16% to 89.3 million shares. Shares short in Cell Therapeutics (NASDAQ:CTIC) rose 11% to 42.4 million. The short interest in Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) was down 11% to 33.8 million. Shares short in Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) dropped 4% to 32.5 million.

The short interest in Merck (NYSE:MRK) rose 4% to 179.3 million. Shares short in GE (NYSE:GE) fell 5% to 130 million. The short interest in Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) rose 3% to 267.6 million. Shares short in Citigroup (NYSE:C) fell 33% to 118 million.

The short interest in Ford (NYSE:F) dropped 14% to 96 million. Shares short in Sprint (NYSE:S) fell 4% to 95.1 million. The short interest in AT&T (NYSE:T) rose 12% to 48.9 million and shares short in Verizon (NYSE:VZ) rose 19% to 47.2 million.

Data from NYSE and NASDAQ.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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