Monday, January 29, 2007

Short Interest Numbers Out

Short positions of stocks is required to be reported on the 15th or the month or earlier if the 15th falls on a Saturday, Sunday or holiday. The compilation is done within eight days. NASDAQ provides a nice database on short positions, even on New York Stock Exchange Stocks. [That's very nice of them.] If you look at the change in the short interest from December 15 to January 12 for some of the more active stocks, you will see some interesting data:

Intel (INTC) down 2.8%
Ford (F) up 20.7%
Cisco (CSCO) up 1.8%
Motorola (MOT) up 11%
Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY) down 18.7%
Pfizer (PFE) down 12.4%
Oracle (ORCL) up 11.6%

Author currently does not own any of the above.

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