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As you will see, the short interest changes in medical and drug stocks of the active NYSE-listed names was a bit of a mixed bag.  GlaxoSmithkline (GSK) saw the lagest increase, but its short...
Stock Tickers: XHB, DHI, LEN, PHM, CTX, TOL, NVR, KBH, MDC, RYL, SPF, BZH, HOV This can’t be a shock considering ‘how great’ the housing market is and how many new homes are selling in the...
Stock Tickers: VLO, XOM, CVX, COP, SLB, HAL, OIH, HES, PBR, MRO, BHI, RIG, BJS, WMB, GSF, BP, VLO, WFT, NOV, HES Higher and higher oil prices got you down?  They definitely don’t do wonder for the...
Stock Tickers: GS, MER, MS, LEH, BSC The raw number of shares that are measured in the short interest in bulge bracket brokerage firm and investment banking stocks did increase, although if you look...
Stock Tickers: TYC, MS, F, CY, SPWR, TRB, KFT, MO, HB, ASD, EMC, DJ, AA, WY It is always interesting to see how short sellers treat shares of stocks that are undergoing a spin-off, a restructuring,...
BRK/A, BNI, KO, PG, WMT, USG, AXP, WFC, MCO, JNJ, COP, UNP, USB, MTB, ASD, NSC, WLP, UNH, IR, HRB It is always interesting to see how Wall Street bets with or against Warren Buffett’s stock...
Stock Tickers: AA, AIG, AXP, BA, C, CAT, DD, DIS, GE, GM, HD, HON, HPQ, IBK, JNJ, JPM, KO, MCD, MMM, MRK, MO, MRK, PFE, PG, T, UTX, VZ, WMT, XOM As you will see, the June short interest in the 28 of...
Stock Tickers: JPM, BAC, USB, NCC, STT, C, WFC, BK, STI The large banking stocks saw a fairly large increase in short interest from May to June in 2007.  That is after a mixed April to May period. ...
Stock Tickers: AMD, TXN, LSI, MU, NSM, CY, IFX, ADI, STM, TSM, SMH The Semiconductor HOLDRs Trust (SMH) pretty much says it all, as the SMH short interest rose again in June as the ETF hit a new...
How long has it been since we have received worldwide web reports of a massive web attack, or a DNS attack, or a major virus, or a Trojan Horse? It’s been some time, so there hasn’t really been...
Stock Tickers: GOOG, YHOO, EBAY, AMZN, BIDU, MNST Short sellers in the online search and content names are not showing any real significant pattern.  The short interest actually fell in Google...
Stock Tickers: PCLN, EXPE, TZOO, CTRP The online travel sector is a bit of an odd bird.  The travel sector itself is of course very cyclical and one of the first expenses that can be trimmed without...
Stock Tickers: CMGI, ICGE, SFE The short sellers are lining up their bets against CMGI (CMGI-NASDAQ).  To add fuel to the fire, the shorts are also lining up bets against the other two...
Stock Tickers: ETFC, AMTD, SCHW, NITE, OXPS, TRAD, IBKR The short interest in online brokers is often a guage as to what traders are thinking about the markets because it is one of the directly...
Stock Tickers: VCLK, AQNT, TFSM We have frequently noted how the short sellers are often motivated by different factors and have a longer-term outlook than Joe Q. Public.  We wanted to look at the...