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...General Electric (GE) used to be a fairly stable company with a fairly stable stock price. Problems with earnings, missed forecasts, and speculation about the health of its financial services division have made GE's stock volatile and sensitive to rumors. As of April 15, the short interest in GE dropped 6% compared to the measurement two weeks before to a total of 197 million shares. Over that period, GE traded an average of 136 million shares a day, so the short interest is tiny compared with the volume. For short sellers, that is a big plus. High trading volume...
...Citigroup (C) is the most shorted stock in America. As of April 15, the bank had a short interest of 1.237 billion shares. Its trading volume average of the prior two weeks was 532 million shares a day. Citi has an extraordinary 24% of its float sold short, a sign that a huge number of investors are willing to gamble against the share price. Citi's stock is subject to wild swings, in part because the short sellers in the company's shares have been "squeezed" more than once this year - forced to cover when the banks had good news...
...another stock which has traded in the pennies since the beginning of 2009, even though it was the premier insurance company in the world just four years ago. Shares short in AIG fell 3% during the most recent period to 278 million, against an average daily volume of 125 million shares. Eleven percent of the financial firm's float is now sold short. AIG's stock can more up or down 15% on any given day based on information about whether the government will have to add to its $13o billion commitment to the firm and news about its desperate...
...Ford (F) had 113 million share sold short as of April, an extraordinary drop of 53% since two weeks before that. The stock was up 47% to $4.04 over that period which wiped out a number of short positions. Since then, the shares have moved even higher on earnings and analyst upgrades and change hands at more than $5. Ford trades a tremendous 121 million shares a day. Any news about the potential bankruptcy of GM (GM) or Chrysler moves Ford's stock due to concerns, among others, that a liquidation of either of those firms could bring down parts...
...patients had come into contact with pigs). The CDC is working with the World Health Organization to keep track of any additional cases to determine whether and when a warning of a pandemic would be warranted. In preparation for such a scenario, the CDC has created a seed stock of a vaccine against the swine flu, which could be pushed into production should the number of cases jump significantly. The CDC did not specify what the threshold for vaccine production would...