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Short Sellers Savage The Macro-Caps Across The Board

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No industry was able to avoid short selling activity, particularly among its largest companies. Tech, automotive, conglomerates, consumer goods, and financial shares were all under pressure, and big firms took the brunt of the activity. It may be that the market has started to acknowledge a slowdown could reach every sector.

Shares short in GM (NYSE: GM) jumped 26% to 41.5 million. The short interest in Alcoa (NYSE: AA) was higher by 14% to 69.3 million. Shares sold short in defense firm Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) moved higher by 226% to 26.7 million for the period which ended May 15.

Shares short in GE (NYSE: GE) were up 75.6 million shares. Shares sold short in Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) rose 8% to 100 million. Shares short in Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) rose 24% to 34.6 million. The short interest in Merck (NYSE: MRK) was up 26% to 26.5 million.

Share short in Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) rose 18% to 97 million. Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) short interest rose 8% to 52.2 million.

Source: NASDAQ and NYSE

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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