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Short Covering Rally?

Was today real buying or short covering?  As shown below, today's best performing stocks in the S&P 500 were also the ones with the highest short interest as a percentage of float.  On the other hand, stocks with the lowest short interest underperformed.

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March 18, 2008 at 06:29 PM in Market Analysis |

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