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Based on information received from members and member organizations, short interest increased to a record 8,439,004,525 shares on Apr. 15 from 8,419,194,508 shares on Mar. 15.
The short interest on Apr. 15 was equal to 2.3 percent of the total shares outstanding on the Exchange.
The short interest in warrants as of Apr. 15 amounted to 64,666 warrants, compared with 59,574 the previous month.
As of the settlement date, there were 3,622 stocks and 3 warrants available for trading on the Exchange. Of these, 2,964 issues had either a short position of 5,000 shares or a change of shares since the last monthly report. A list of these issues, showing their current short positions and average daily volume between the trade dates, covered by this report, is attached.
A short sale is any sale of a security that the seller does not own, or any sale that is completed by the delivery of a borrowed security.
The short positions for the preceding 12 months is shown below:
| Mar. 15, 2005 | 8,419,194,508 |
Sept. 15, 2004 |
7,749,884,573 |
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Feb. 15, 2005 |
8,007,342,082 |
Aug. 13, 2004 |
7,675,491,823 |
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Jan. 14, 2005 |
7,733,762,103 |
July 15, 2004 |
7,539,540,710 |
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Dec. 15, 2004 |
7,715,766,807 |
June 15, 2004 |
7,557,313,152 |
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Nov. 15, 2004 |
7,825,383,138 |
May 14, 2004 |
7,378,528,074 |
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Oct. 15, 2004 |
7,955,344,840 |
Apr. 15, 2004 |
7,473,305,544 |
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