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Saturday, August 26, 2006

Weekend Edition: Nasdaq Short Positions For August

Following is the Nasdaq short interest in individual stock August 15 compared to July 14, 2006.

Largest Short Positions

Company Total Share Short Increase/Decrease

Sirius 129 million up 19 million
Yahoo 92 million up 5 million
Level 3 85 million up 3 million
JDS Uniphase 84 million up 1 million
Microsoft 73 million down 15 million
Intel 69 million up .3 million
Charter 66 million up .3 million
Cisco 55 million up 16 million
Oracle 53 million up 11 million
Jet Blue 53 million up 2 million
eBay 51 million up 1 million
Dell 47 million up 11 million
Comcast 43 million up 5 million
Symantec 41 million down 4 million
Amazon 40 million up 4 million
Starbucks 35 million up 4 million
Take Two 33 million up 1 million
Sun 33 million up .3 million
Finisair 32 million up 4 million
Conexant 29 million down 1 million
XM 29 million down 8 million
Apple 28 million up 4 million
Qualcomm 28 million up 1 million

Largest Increase


Company Increase

Sirius up 19 million
Cisco up 16 million
Dell up 11 million
Oracle up 11 million
UAL up 7 million
Comcast up 5 million
Yahoo up 5 million
Starbucks up 4 million
Finisair up 4 million
NutriSystem up 4 million
Apple up 4 million


Largest Decreases

Company Decrease

Microsoft down 15 million
XM down 8 million
PMC Sierra down 7 million
PetroHawk down 4 million
Symantec down 4 million
McData down 3 million
Hansen down 3 million
Juniper down 3 million


Largest Days To Cover Ratios

Company Days To Cover

SCO Group 154 days
Integrated Alarm 116 days
Introgen 60 days
Kensey Nash 50 days
Pharmacyclics 49 days


Largest Percent Increase


Company Percent

Loopnet 712%
Savvis 245%
UAL 178%
Books-A-Million 125%


Largest Decreases

Company Percent

PGT -79%
DOV Pharma -63%
West Corp -60%
Sigmatel -55%
ArQule -54%

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