Sectors on the Move

July 28, 2009

A simple review of those industry sectors which experienced the greatest average increase in short interest between June 25th and July 10th .

We cannot show the top 12 sectors with short-covering for this latest period,  since there were only four with any overall decrease in average short interest.

Comparison with the previous review,  for July 25th data, shows that Construction Materials, Leisure Equipment & Products. and Pharmaceuticals appear in the top 12 new shorting for a second time;  Beverages appears in the top 12 for covering for the second time;  Tobacco moves from being amongst the top industries for short-covering June 12-25th, to being the second highest for new-shorting in this period.

(The numbers in parentheses show the number of stocks with in each industry sector.   SISO = Short Interest as % of Shares Outstanding.)

Heaviest New Short Interest by Sector

Heaviest Short Covering by Sector

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