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Based on information received from members and member organizations, short interest decreased to 8,406,439,557 shares on June 15 from 8,568,572,977 shares on May 13.
The short interest on June 15 was equal to 2.3 percent of the total shares outstanding on the Exchange.
The short interest in warrants as of June 15 amounted to 53,621 warrants, compared with 61,407 the previous month.
As of the settlement date, there were 3,611 stocks and 5 warrants available for trading on the Exchange. Of these, 2,886 issues had either a short position of at least 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:
| May 13, 2005 | 8,568,572,977 |
Nov. 15, 2004 |
7,825,383,138 |
| April 15, 2005 | 8,439,004,525 |
Oct. 15, 2004 |
7,955,344,840 |
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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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