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Short interest in Level 3 (LVLT) rose 6.2 million shares in January. The total short position in the company, at 108.8 million, is second only to Sirius (SIRI) among stocks traded on Nasdaq. There is...
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SAP’s (SAP) quarterly earnings and its plan to spend a load of money in an attempt to pick up smaller customers drove the stock down 7% on January 24. CIBC downgraded the European enterprise...
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The short interest in Ebay (EBAY) fell by 2.6 million shares to 34.5 million when its was measured on January 12. Perhaps investors with foresight worried that the big auction company would have a...
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The short interest in Yahoo! (YHOO) for January rose almost six million shares to 84.1 million. That’s a not insignificant bet that the stock may drop. Yahoo!’s new Panama advertising system will...
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Short sellers showed an odd sort of faith in Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI) or in the already low price of its shares anyway. Short interest in the company’s stock fell 22.2 million shares in...
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Below are the January short interest figures for selected stocks. The numbers are posted for January 12, 2007 as compared to December 15, 2006. Data from NASDAQ and The Wall Street Journal. Largest...
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The short interest in HP (HPQ) for January rose over 5 million shares to 35 million. Concerns about CEO Mark Hurd’s stock sales during the company’s back-dating investigation or the potential of...
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Things don’t get much more humiliating for a big public company than when the Wall Street Journal runs a piece that says the firm cannot hire a No.2 executive. SprintNextel (S) is also facing a...
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January short interest in Exxon Mobil (XOM) dropped over 8 million shares in January to 50 million. Intuition might say it should go the other way. With the price of oil down from a peak of $78 last...
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Qwest (Q) is to small, took sickly, to compete. It does not have the emerging high-speed infrastructure of its larger brothers AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ). Nor does it have their large wireless...
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Short interest in Ford Motor (F) was already extraordinarily high in December, but this month it rose over 30 million shares to sit at 175 million. The figure stands in contrast to Ford’s shares...
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Below are the largest short positions and changes in short positions for stocks traded on the NYSE. The data for January is as of January 12, 2007 as compared to December 12, 2006. Largest Short...
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The coverage ratio in Sharper Image for shares held short it 37 days. In December, shares short totalled over 3 million and the stock trades an average of under 82,000 shares a day. The Nasdaq has...
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Short interest in Jet Blue fell 12.2 million shares to 39.1 million in December. And, that is after the stock has run from $9.25 to $14.62 in the last three months. What gives? The industry as a...
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Earthlink is a dog of a stock. It has gone from almost $12 two years ago to $7.15 And that is after a small run-up over the last few weeks. Some on Wall St. are betting that the rally will fizzle....
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