Brief Sales Outstanding Set a record for the Nasdaq
Dunkle clouds continue to grow on the Nasdaq market. Nasdaq reported yesterday that the number of shares held in short positions rose to another record over the past few months.
Nasdaq said that, globally, 849 million shares were selected from 15 positions August, 1.7 percent of 835 million in July. The number of shares sold short and does not yet cover - the “short interest” - were also on the rise record values of New York and American stock exchanges.
Investors sell camp shortly bet that prices fall. In a short sale, an investor based on the one hand a broker and sells them in the hope that he or she can buy it later at a lower price. If the share rises in price, but losing money for investors.
Some small suppliers to speculate on actions that they believe they overstated. Increasingly, stocks are sold as part of strategies to short complex, where several guilds.
Many of these strategies are related to options, conservative investors such as insurance to protect themselves against the potential of a market decline. For example, an investor could buy “Put” option would, apart from that sale at a fixed price for a specified period.
The increase in direct sales in the short term and options strategies greatest concern of investors that the stock market may be overvalued and the appointment of a decline. Still, interest in the short term may not be a good predictor of a shrinking market, because at some point, few providers finally decide in May to relax their positions, buying back the shares sold, the price of the auction in May.
The biggest short positions were for American Power Conversion, which allows electrical equipment and Cott Corporation, a manufacturer of soft drinks.
The main increases were selected for positions Nextel Communications, a mobile phone, and Biogen, a pharmaceutical company.
Short-positions opposed to most of Snapple Beverage and Apple Computer.
Tokos Medical, a home-Health-Care-providers, had the highest interest rates in the short term - ie the average number of exchanges today, it would be entitled to take the short suppliers to repurchase all the shares they sold. Since Tokos share 3.4 million were sold shortly, and only 51765 shares are traded on average each day, there would be 65 days for the position.
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