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Based on information received from members and member organizations, short interest decreased to 13,710,404,966 shares from 14,142,088,046 (revised) shares on November 28, 2008. This was an decrease of 431,683,080 shares.
The short interest on December 15 was equal to 3.59 percent of the total shares outstanding.
The short interest in warrants as of December 15 amounted to 98,271 warrants, compared to 95,753 warrants the previous period.
As of the settlement date, there were 4,142 stocks and 11 warrants available for trading. Of these, 3,363 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.
Adjusted short interest for the preceeding 12 months:
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December 15, 2007 |
13,710,404,966 |
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November 28, 2008 |
14,142,088,046 |
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November 14, 2008 |
13,574,527,599 |
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October 15, 2008 |
13,584,588,896 |
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September 30, 2008 |
14,840,183,359 |
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September 15, 2008 |
17,137,639,017 |
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August 29, 2008 |
17,688,931,645 |
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August 15, 2008 |
17,776,957,423 |
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July 31, 2008 |
18,324,822,275 |
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July 15, 2008 |
18,608,172,560 |
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June 30, 2008 |
17,921,513,271 |
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June 10, 2008 |
17,656,689,208 |
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May 27, 2008 |
16,381,113,274 |
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May 12, 2008 |
15,992,866,161 |
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April 25, 2008 |
15,617,079,741 |
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April 10, 2008 |
15,581,441,080 |
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March 26, 2008 |
15,573,907,206 |
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March 12, 2008 |
15,994,499,533 |
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February 26, 2008 |
14,951,879,300 |
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February 12, 2008 |
14,364,716,294 |
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January 28, 2008 |
13,704,229,414 |
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January 10, 2008 |
13,829,565,599 |
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December 26, 2007 |
12,740,517,396 |
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