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Nasdaq Short Interest Highlights
*Short interest in Nasdaq at record level. Impetus for a sustained rally?

From Nasdaq


The Nasdaq Stock Market Announces Open Short-Interest Positions
In Nasdaq Stocks For November 2001

In summary, short interest in all 4,083 Nasdaq® securities totaled 4,175,725,953 shares for November, compared with 4,092 issues and 4,062,363,080 shares in October. This is 2.20 days’ average daily volume, compared with last month’s average of 1.97 days.

The total Nasdaq short positions for the preceding 13 
  months and current month follow: 
  
 Settlement Date   Total Short Interest   Number of Securities  
          
 October 13, 2000       3,386,001,792       4,739  
 November 15, 2000      3,379,629,386       4,694  
 December 15, 2000      3,497,263,482       4,585  
 January 12, 2001       3,452,282,664       4,588  
 February 15, 2001      3,444,789,352       4,552  
 March 15, 2001         3,608,599,871       4,443  
 April 13, 2001         3,764,094,547       4,445  
 May 15, 2001           3,713,132,045       4,467  
 June 15, 2001          3,821,032,805       4,392  
 July 13, 2001          4,013,408,493       4,293  
 August 15, 2001        4,062,490,704       4,220  
 September 14, 2001     4,166,310,456       4,135  
 October 15, 2001       4,062,363,080       4,092  
 November 15, 2001      4,175,725,953       4,083 

http://www.nasdaqnews.com/news/pr2001/ne_section01_332.html

From The Wall Street Journal
Nasdaq Short-Selling Highlights

  
   
                   Largest Short Positions  
   
 Rank                     Nov. 15       Oct. 15      Change  
   
  1  Cisco Systems Inc r 104,840,498  109,962,329  -5,121,831  
  2  Intel Corp r         90,261,854   77,107,462  13,154,392  
  3  Microsoft Corp r     71,139,744   62,615,407   8,524,337  
  4  Nextel Communic r    58,571,304   47,837,870  10,733,434  
  5  Level 3 Communicat r 56,737,390   58,477,362  -1,739,972  
  6  JDS Uniphase r       54,993,658   65,607,095 -10,613,437  
  7  Amazon.com Inc r     51,852,774   48,741,048   3,111,726  
  8  Oracle Corp r        50,721,574   48,768,739   1,952,835  
  9  Dell Computer r      46,528,629   57,824,254 -11,295,625  
 10  XO Communications    44,067,387   31,737,171  12,330,216  
 11  WorldCom Group r     41,350,129   44,215,423  -2,865,294  
 12  Sun Microsystems r   40,926,925   27,151,111  13,775,814  
 13  Metromedia Fiber     38,003,707   31,083,987   6,919,720  
 14  Yahoo! Inc r         37,718,115   40,526,033  -2,807,918  
 15  Sanmina Corp r       33,832,693   27,375,298   6,457,395