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Based on information received from members and member organizations, short interest increased to 18,125,425,324 from 17,654,028,383 shares on June 13, 2008.
The short interest on June 30 was equal to 4.74 percent of the total shares outstanding.
The short interest in warrants as of June 30 amounted to 1,093,734 warrants, compared to 1,012,976 warrants the previous period.
As of the settlement date, there were 3,700 stocks and 11 warrants available for trading. Of these, 3,192 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 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 preceding 12 short positions are shown below:
| June 13, 2008 |
17,654,028,383 |
March 14, 2008 |
16,009,687,994 |
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May 30, 2008 |
16,431,281,684 |
February 29, 2008 |
14,956,961,052 |
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May 15, 2008 |
15,995,002,917 |
February 15, 2008 |
14,369,951,951 |
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April 30, 2008 |
15,628,750,373 |
January 31, 2008 |
13,709,338,101 |
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April 15, 2008 |
15,625,464,452 |
January 15, 2008 |
13,850,660,313 |
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March 31, 2008 |
15,586,035,359 |
December 31, 2007 |
12,742,596,461 |
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