The NYSE Group, Inc. today reported short interest as of the close of business on the settlement date of May 15, 2008.
Based on information received from members and member organizations, short interest increased to 15,995,002,917 from 15,628,750,373 shares on April 30, 2008. This was an increase of 366,252,544 shares.
The short interest on May 15 was equal to 4.2 percent of the total shares outstanding.
The short interest in warrants as of May 15 amounted to 892,061 warrants, compared to 109,198 warrants the previous period.
As of the settlement date, there were 3,671 stocks and 9 warrants available for trading. Of these, 3,168 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 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 preceding 12 short positions are shown below:
April 30, 2008 - 15,628,750,373
January 31, 2008 - 13,709,338,101
April 15, 2008 - 15,625,464,452
January 15, 2008 - 13,850,660,313
March 31, 2008 - 15,586,035,359
December 31, 2007 - 12,742,596,461
March 14, 2008 - 16,009,687,994
December 14, 2007 - 12,646,068,480
February 29, 2008 - 14,956,961,052
November 30, 2007 - 12,769,018,789
February 15, 2008 - 14,369,951,951
November 15, 2007 - 12,387,957,659 -- www.nyse.com
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