The NYSE Group, Inc. today reported short interest as of the close of business on the settlement date of August 15, 2007, reflecting transactions through August 10, 2007.
Based on information received from members and member organizations, short interest decreased to 12,492,322,636 from 12,950,726,148 as of July13, 2007.
The short interest on August 15 was equal to 3.3 percent of the total shares outstanding.
The short interest in warrants as of August 15 amounted to 372,108 warrants, compared to 232,776 warrants the previous month.
As of the settlement date, there were 3,627 stocks and 7 warrants available for trading. Of these, 3,143 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:
|
July 13, 2007 |
12,950,726,148 |
Jan. 12, 2007 |
9,680,953,526 |
|
June 15, 2007 |
12,467,283,409 |
Dec. 15, 2006 |
9,653,015,623 |
|
May 15, 2007 |
11,746,772,284 |
Nov. 15, 2006 |
9,648,665,452 |
|
April 13, 2007 |
10,989,496,813 |
Oct. 13, 2006 |
9,744,698,431 |
|
March 15, 2007 |
10,510,404,017 |
Sept. 12, 2006 |
9,736,370,721 |
|
Feb. 15, 2007 |
9,595,242,421 |
|
9,635,984,066 |
