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Based on information received from members and member organizations, short interest increased to 12,950,726,148 from 12,467,283,409 as of June 15, 2007.
The short interest on July 13 was equal to 3.4 percent of the total shares outstanding.
The short interest in warrants as of July 13 amounted to 232,776 warrants, compared with 105,228 warrants the previous month.
As of the settlement date, there were 3,629 stocks and 7 warrants available for trading. Of these, 3,119 issues had either a short position of at least 5,000 shares or a change of 2,000 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:
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June 15, 2007 |
12,467,283,409 |
Dec. 15, 2006 |
9,653,015,623 |
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May 15, 2007 |
11,746,772,284 |
Nov. 15, 2006 |
9,648,665,452 |
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April 13, 2007 |
10,989,496,813 |
Oct. 13, 2006 |
9,744,698,431 |
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March 15, 2007 |
10,510,404,017 |
Sept. 12, 2006 |
9,736,370,721 |
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Feb. 15, 2007 |
9,595,242,421 |
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9,635,984,066 |
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Jan. 12, 2007 |
9,680,953,526 |
July 14, 2006 |
9,298,283,040 |
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