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There was what appears to be a massive increase in short selling for the period report ending March 13, 2009. The short selling increases in companies like First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR), Suntech...
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Based on the rise in the short interest in banks at mid-month, it is clear how badly investors betting bank stocks would go down were mauled. As of March 15, shares short in AIG (AIG) were up 17% to...
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Short sellers may have taken a bath in companies such as Citigroup (C) and GE (GE), but they increased investments in many companies to record levels. At the end of February, shares sold short in...
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Everyone wants to know what the Oracle of Omaha is up to. The great Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) stock has proven to be far from immune to the woes of the market and was down 50% from its...
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There were some really large increases in the short interest from alternative energy companies such as Energy Conversion Devices (NASDAQ: ENER), JA Solar Holdings (NASDAQ: JASO), and LDK Solar Co....
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Short sellers think financial stocks believe that financial stocks still have further to fall. Based on data as of February 15, short sellers kept a big bet on Citigroup (C). Share short in AIG (AIG)...
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JNJ Short sellers are not willing to bet that shares in large retailers or consumer products companies will go any lower. The are gambling that consumer spending has bottomed. Shares short in...
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Short sellers placed large bets against the stock of tech companies for the period ending on January 15, taking a series of positions to gamble that firms like Microsoft (MSFT) and Cisco (CSCO) would...
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Short selling is not always just used as a bet against a stock, but that is what Wall Street evaluates short interest for. We did note a drop in short selling on NASDAQ from mid-December to...
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For the latest reported period, ending December 31, short sellers did not make any notable moves in or out of tech, financials, or industrial shares. What they did do was take impressively large...
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The NASDAQ OMX Group (NASDAQ: NDAQ) is seeing a drop in short selling activity if the trends in December continue. The exchange said that as of December 31, the total short interest in 2,559 NASDAQ...
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If investors had a notion that short sellers were going to stay in big financials, they were wrong. Short interest in the weakest companies in the sector dropped. Shares short in Citigroup (C) fell...
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It seems that short sellers have no real direction in the major NASDAQ biotech stocks from mid-November to late-November. Generally you see a pattern. This month the only pattern seems to be one...
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With oil tanking, many alternative energy stocks and solar stocks have been paying for it. They were the leveraged winners when oil was running up and now they are paying the price on the way...
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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...
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