I've had nxtl for a while, but I hadn't noticed that the volume of shares that are being shorted. Has this been common and what are the long erm effects of this?
Largest Short Positions (from Briefing.com)
Company Symb Jan 15 Dec 15 Change
WorldCom Inc. WCOM 63,972,626 71,536,287 -7,563,661 Intel Corp. INTC 35,501,390 31,503,192 3,998,198 TeleCommun A TCI TCOMA 29,785,407 30,226,185 -440,778 Dell Computer DELL 22,617,817 18,203,322 4,414,495 Nextel Communicat NXTL 22,376,353 21,988,446 387,907 Apple Computer AAPL 19,431,998 19,876,688 -444,690 Applied Materials AMAT 17,326,797 12,975,263 4,351,534 Microsoft Corp. MSFT 17,046,371 15,644,513 1,401,858 |