While there has been a lot of discussion recently regarding how most of the market's volume has been in just a handful of stocks, we are seeing a similar trend with regards to short interest. Below we highlight the five stocks in the S&P 500 with the highest short interest. Collectively, these five names account for over 16% of the total short interest for the index.
Interesting that GE still has not shaken loose its many skeptics.
Posted by: eh | August 31, 2009 at 04:07 AM