Short Interest Moves for Actively Traded Stock Market Shares

General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) short interest rose 0.6% to 83.9 million shares. About 0.8% of GE’s float is now short.

Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) saw short interest rise 3.1% to 229.2 million shares, about 6.1% of the company’s total float.

Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) short interest fell 11.3% to 122.99 million shares, which represents 1.1% of the company’s float.

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) saw a 7.3% drop in short interest to 45.28 million shares, which represents about 1.6% of the firm’s float.

Alpha Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE: ANR) showed a drop of 4.4% in short interest, to 38.15 million shares, about 17.5% of Alpha’s float.

McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) showed a drop of 4.1% in short interest, to 9.15 million shares, about 0.9% of the company’s float.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) saw short interest fall 2.9% to 23.38 million shares, or 2.5% of the company’s float.

BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) saw short interest rise by 6.6% to 182.6 million shares, or 37% of the total float. Short interest continues to be reported under the company’s previous name, Research in Motion Ltd., but the stock symbol has been changed to BBRY.

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) posted a 7.8% decrease in short interest to 94.81 million shares, about 1.2% of Microsoft’s float.

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) short interest declined by 4.8% to 23.37 million shares, or about 1.6% of the company’s float.

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) saw short interest increase by 2.8% to 28.23 million shares, or 23.1% of the company’s float.

Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) saw short interest rise by 8.7% to 59.5 million shares, which is about 1.1% of the company’s float.

Short interest in Dell continues to decline as it looks more and more like Michael Dell will get his way and take the company private after making a few concessions to Carl Icahn.

Short interest in Apple continues to fall. In the past six weeks, short interest has dropped by nearly half as the company’s share price bounces around $400 a share.

And the short sellers are moving back in on BlackBerry, where short interest rose to more than a third of company’s outstanding shares. We will know more about this bet on Friday, when BlackBerry reports quarterly earnings.

Finally, short interest continues to pick up in Cisco. The shorts could get a bigger grip now that it appears that Cisco may pay the price for U.S. cyber-spying on China.