NYSE Short Interest, October 2006

These are the highlights of the short interest of stocks list on the NYSE for the period ending October 13 compared to September 15.

Largest Short Interest

AT&T 122.4 milion shares up 12.5 million
Ford 100.4 million shares down 2.6 million
Lucent 94.7 million shares down .6 million
Qwest 78.3 million shares up 10.2 million
Sprint 68.0 million shares up 10.4 million
Time Warn 67.5 million shares up 17.1 million
GM 63.8 million shares down .8 million
McDonalds 60.5 million shares up 47.5 million
GE 52.2 million shares up 13.0 million
Exxon 49.0 million shares down .4 million
Disney 47.1 million shares down 5.0 million
Halliburton 46.1 million shares up .2 million
Verizon 44.4 million shares up 3.8 million
Pfizer 44.1 million shares down 12.1 million

Largest Increases in Share Short

McDonald's up 47.5 million shares
Time Warn up 17.1 million shares
Campbell up 13.0 million shares
GE up 13.0 million shares
ATT up 12.5 million shares
Sprint up 10.5 million shares
Qwest up 10.1 million shares
Altria up 7.4 million shares

Largest Decreases in Share Short

Wachovia down 19.9 million shares
Pfizer down 12.1 million shares
Motorola down 7 million shares
Northfork down 7 million shares
Bristol My down 6.8 million shares
JPMorgan down 6.1 million shares
Ameren down 5.7 million shares
BellSouth down 5.2 million shares
Disney down 5.0 million shares
AMD down 5.0 million shares

Douglas A. McIntyre