Short interest for major Nasdaq stocks is reported below as of May 15 as compared to figures on April 13.
Largest Short Positions
Comcast 117.6 million shares short
Level 3 109.4 million shares
Microsoft 98.8 million shares
Sirius 91.3 million shares
Charter Comm 91.1 mllion shares
Intel 81.2 million shares
Yahoo! 79.3 million shares
Amazon 53.9 million shares
Oracle 47.4 million shares
Cisco 46.8 million shares
JetBlue 46.7 million shares
Symantec 44.3 million shares
Dendreon Corp 41.7 million shares
Applied Mater 40.6 million shares
Ebay 34.0 million shares
Dell 32.5 million shares
RF Micro Devices 31.8 million shares
Sun Micro 30.3 million shares
Largest Increases In Short Position
Comcast Up 44.6 million shares
Intel Up 12.0 million shares
Conexant Up 7.9 million shares
Dendreon Up 7.8 million shares
TD Ameritrade Up 7.5 million shares
E*Trade Up 5.8 million shares
JetBlue Up 5.5 million shares
JDS Uniphase Up 5.5 million shares
Amazon Up 5.4 million shares
Largest Decreases In Short Position
Sirius Down 29.1 million shares
People’s UtdFinl Down 12.4 million shares
Sun Micro Down 11.9 million shares
ON Semi Down 7.2 million shares
XM Satellite Down 6.4 million shares
Nvidia Down 4.8 million shares
Activision Down 4.6 million shares
Cisco Down 4.5 million shares
Qualcomm Down 4.1 million shares
Broadcom Down 4.0 million shares
Data from Nasdaq and WSJ
Douglas A. McIntyre
