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To: richardred who wrote (1211)	10/31/2012 12:24:13 PM
From: The Ox	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8239

From a few days ago: Intel Corp. ( NASDAQ: INTC) short interest rose 2.4% to 182.5 million shares. About 3.7% of Intel’s float is now short.Advanced Micro Devices Inc. ( NYSE: AMD) saw short interest rise 0.3% to 142.58 million shares, 23.8% of the company’s total float. Qualcomm Inc. ( NASDAQ: QCOM) short interest fell 20.1% to 18.6 million shares, which represents just 1.1% of the company’s float. ARM Holdings PLC ( NASDAQ: ARMH) saw a 9.8% rise in short interest to 8.06 million shares, which represents about 1.8% of the firm’s float. Micron Technology Inc. ( NASDAQ: MU) showed a rise of 4.2% in short interest, to 60.47 million shares, about 6% of Micron’s float. SanDisk Corp. ( NASDAQ: SNDK) saw short interest rise by 2% to 10.1 million shares, or 4.2% of the company’s float. Broadcom Corp. ( NASDAQ: BRCM) saw short interest fall by 3.4% to 6.25 million shares, or 1.2% of the total float. Marvell Technology Group Ltd. ( NASDAQ: MRVL) posted a 29.8% rise in short interest, to 7.52 million shares, about 1.7% of Marvell’s float. Nvidia Corp. ( NASDAQ: NVDA) short interest fell by 5.9%, to 14 million shares or about 2.4% of the company’s float. Texas Instruments Inc. ( NASDAQ: TXN) saw short interest rise by 32% to 23.26 million shares or 2.1% of the company’s float. Applied Materials Inc. ( NASDAQ: AMAT) saw short interest rising 9.7% to 20.07 million shares or about 1.6% of the company’s float. The Market Vectors Semiconductor ETF ( NYSEMKT: SMH) showed a rise of 5.8% in short interest to 6.2 million shares. Chip stocks have been hard-hit by weak forecasts for PC shipments. The big losers in the first two weeks of October were Marvell and Texas Instruments. Marvell’s hard drive controller chips are threatened by the expected softness in the market for PCs and hard drives, while TI’s wide range of chips for all kinds of applications is threatened by the overall slowdown in the global economy. AMD still leads the pack with nearly 24% of its shares held short. The company’s weaknesses are well known and it continues to struggle. The growth in short interest in AMD was quite low in this period though, compared with the previous two weeks when short interest rose more than 17%. Paul Ausick

To: richardred who wrote (1211)	1/14/2013 12:35:04 PM
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Xyratex: Baker Street delivers letter to the Board Of Directors of Xyratex; calls for a fair and thorough review of strategic alternatives to maximize shareholder value ( XRTX) 8.38 : In the letter, Baker Street stated its belief that Xyratex' current market price is dramatically lower than the Company's intrinsic value. Baker Street believes this valuation discrepancy is largely due to the flawed strategy of reinvesting substantial profits from the Company's mature core businesses in loss-making and unproven HPC and Cloud initiatives. Baker Street stressed that a fair and thorough review of all strategic alternatives available to the Company should be undertaken by a significantly reconfigured Board to maximize shareholder value. finance.yahoo.com