Based on information received from members and member organizations, short interest increased to 9,736,370,721 shares from 9,635,984,066 shares on Sept. 12.
The short interest on September 15 was equal to 2.6 percent of the total shares outstanding.
The short interest in warrants as of September 12 amounted to 61,863 warrants, compared with 37,565 the previous month.
As of the settlement date, there were 3,639 stocks and 6 warrants available for trading. Of these, 3,010 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:
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9,736,370,721 |
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8,072,744,111 |
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July 14, 2006 |
9,298,283,040 |
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8,495,417,446 |
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June 15, 2006 |
9,087,309,158 |
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8,509,276,923 |
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8,613,110,732 |
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8,805,471,446 |
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8,354,989,017 |
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8,646,881,921 |
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8,243,648,110 |
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8,561,976,030 |
