NYSE Short Interest For May 2007

By Douglas A. McIntyre Published May 22, 3:45AM EDT

Below are the major short positions and changes for the period measured on May 15 compared to April 13, 2007

Largest Short Position

Ford 209.8 million shares short

Motorola 125.7 million

Time Warner 86.7 million

CVC Carmark 80.9 million

Qwest 79.7 million

AMD 73.3 million

GE 53.5 million

Altria 53.2 million

GM 52.3 million

Pfizer 52.1 million

Sprint 49.7 million

Largest Increases In Short Position

CVS Caremark 46.7 million up

Valero 35.3 million

Altria 29.3 million

ADM 28.1 million

Regions Fin’l 16.8 million

Time Warner 15.7 million

Constelltn Brds 14.1 million

Largest Decreases In Short Position

Halliburton 66.4 million down

NYSE Euronext 16.9 million

KBR 15.2 million

Conseco 8.4 million

EMC 6.8 million

CBS 6.4 million

News Corp 5.6 million

Data from NYSE and WSJ

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