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54.08% Of All NASDAQ BX Trading Yesterday Was Short Selling. UCBH, HL, EMC, SBUX, PLD, NWS With Highest % Of Daily Trading Vol

^{Published on 2009-08-28 11:28:00, Last Modified on 2010-12-22 14:41:56 - WOPRAI}
 

August 28, 2009 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET, www.buyins.net, has reviewed the NASDAQ BX Daily Short Volume Report for Thursday, August 27th, 2009 and come to the following statistical conclusions. There were 2,985 stocks with daily short volume reported and total NASDAQ BX trading volume of 301,088,761 shares. Total Daily Short Volume was 162,837,734 shares. 54.08% of all trading on the NASDAQ BX yesterday was short selling. The chart below highlights 6 stocks that had unusually high percentages of their total daily trading volume attributed to short sales. UCBH Holdings (NASDAQ: UCBH), Hecla Mining (NYSE: HL), EMC Corp (NYSE: EMC), Starbucks Corp (NASDAQ: SBUX), ProLogis (NYSE: PLD) and News Corp (NASDAQ: NWS). To access SqueezeTrigger Prices ahead of potential short squeezes beginning, visit http://www.buyins.net.

DATE SYMBOL SHORT VOLUME TOTAL VOLUME MARKET PERCENT

20090827 UCBH 118,583 142,786 B 83.05%

20090827 HL 1,031,690 1,307,113 B 78.93%

20090827 EMC 830,766 1,101,062 B 75.45%

20090827 SBUX 227,698 304,343 B 74.82%

20090827 PLD 426,073 604,236 B 70.51%

20090827 NWS 154,080 218,608 B 70.48%

In late October 2008 the SEC updated Regulation SHO requiring that all short sellers must locate, borrow and deliver any shares they have shorted, no exceptions, by T+3 settlement date. If not, a buy-in must be forced by the broker dealer that the short seller transacted through by the opening of the market on T+4. Since a company first appears on the naked short list when short sellers have been failing to deliver for 5 consecutive trading days, stocks should theoretically never be on the naked short list again. BUYINS.NET will monitor the exchangesai naked short lists daily and issue an alert and notify the SEC and FINRA should short sellers fail to deliver on any short sales.

Reg SHO Rule 204 (i) requires brokers to deliver shares on long and short sales of publicly traded equity securities by settlement date, (ii) continues to require brokers to close-out fails to deliver by the beginning of trading on T+4 for short sales and T+6 for long sales, (iii) precludes clearing brokers and their introducing brokers from selling short a security, other than on a pre-borrowed basis, if a fail to deliver in that security is not timely closed out until the fail is closed out and that close-out transaction settles, (iv) allows clearing brokers to allocate fails to introducing brokers and (v) continues to permit brokers to rely upon pre-fail credit to satisfy Rule 204's close-out requirement to avoid the pre-borrow requirements when a fail at a clearing broker has not been closed out. However, the SEC liberalized certain of these provisions in several regards. For example, permanent Rule 204 now allows a broker to close-out a fail on a long sale by borrowing the security, whereas Rule 204T had only permitted closing out long fails by buying-in, which should alleviate some of the buy-in risk for investors that experience long fails. Similar relief was extended to close-outs for market maker fails, so that a fail from a bona fide market making transaction (including short and long fails) can now be closed out by the beginning of trading on T+6 by borrowing the security. Further, Rule 204 now permits a broker to borrow securities to obtain pre-fail credit for early close-outs, whereas temporary Rule 204T only permitted pre-fail credit to be obtained by purchases of securities.

The SEC refused requests to extend the close-out deadline for fails to deliver to the close of business on the close-out deadline, choosing instead to retain the requirement that all fails be closed out by the beginning of trading on the applicable close-out deadline. The Commission also rejected requests for a fail to deliver exception that would have provided an exception from the close-out requirements if a clearing broker's fail position was below a certain amount but said that it would continue to monitor whether a de minimis or odd lot exception could be warranted.

UCBH Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: UCBH) operates as the bank holding company for United Commercial Bank, which provides personal and commercial banking services to small-and medium-sized businesses, business executives, professionals, and other individuals. It primarily engages in generating deposits and originating loans. The companyais deposit products include business and personal checking accounts, NOW accounts, savings and money market accounts, time deposits, and individual retirement accounts. Its lending portfolio comprises commercial real estate loans, construction loans, commercial loans, accounts receivable and inventory loans, short-term trade finance facilities, loans guaranteed by the United States Small Business Administration, multifamily real estate loans, residential mortgage loans, and home equity lines of credit. The company also provides merchant bankcard, cash management, private client, brokerage investment products, and online banking services, as well as offers trade finance facilities for customers involved in the import and/or export of goods principally between Asia and the United States. In addition, UCBH Holdings sells fixed and variable annuities, life insurance, and covered options. As of December 31, 2007, it had 51 branches in California, 5 in Atlanta metropolitan area, 3 in the Boston metropolitan area, 1 branch in Houston, 8 in the New York metropolitan area, 2 in the Seattle metropolitan area, and branches in Hong Kong and China, as well as representative offices in Shanghai and Shenzhen, China and Taipei, Taiwan. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Hecla Mining Company (NYSE: HL) engages in the discovery, acquisition, development, production, and marketing of silver, gold, lead, and zinc. It owns a 100% interest in the Lucky Friday unit located in northern Idaho; a 100% interest in the Greens Creek unit located on Admiralty Island, near Juneau, Alaska; and a 100% interest in the San Sebastian unit in the state of Durango, Mexico. The company produces and sells lead, zinc, and bulk concentrates for custom smelters on contract; and unrefined silver and gold bullion bars for precious metals traders. Hecla Mining Company was founded in 1891 and is headquartered in Coeur daiAlene, Idaho.

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) develops, delivers, and supports information infrastructure technologies and solutions. The companyais Information Storage segment offers networked information storage systems, networked attached storage, content addressed storage, or direct attached storage environment. Its software products include EMC SRDF, EMC MirrorView, EMC TimeFinder, and EMC SnapView, which control and enable replication, optimization, and data movement functions in the EMC networked storage system; and EMC Celerra Replicator that copies, protects, and shares data across various distances. Its Content Management and Archiving segment offers software, which optimizes business processes, as well as creates, manages, delivers, and archives information from documents and discussions, e-mail, Web pages, images, XML, reports, records, rich media, and application data. The companyais RSA Information Security segment delivers products, packaged solutions, and services to guard the integrity and confidentiality of information. This segment offers security product and services, such as enterprise identity and access management products, and encryption and key management software that enable companies to collect, monitor, analyze, and report on security event-related activity. Its VMware Virtual Infrastructure segment offers virtual infrastructure solutions and services that enable customers to address a range of IT problems that include cost and operational inefficiencies, business continuity, software lifecycle management, and desktop management. The company also provides consulting services, technology deployment, managed services, customer support services, and training and certification services. It sells its products and services through direct sales and multiple distribution channels in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, South Africa, and the Asia Pacific region. EMC Corporation was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.

Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) engages in the purchase, roasting, and sale of whole bean coffees worldwide. It offers brewed coffees, Italian-style espresso beverages, cold blended beverages, various complementary food items, coffee-related accessories and equipment, a selection of premium teas, and a line of compact discs, through its retail stores. The company also sells and licenses its trademark through other channels. In addition, Starbucks Corporation produces and sells ready-to-drink beverages, which include bottled beverages and espresso drinks, and a line of ice creams. Its brand portfolio includes superpremium Tazo teas, Starbucks Hear Music compact discs, Seattleais Best Coffee, and Torrefazione Italia coffee. As of September 30, 2007, the company operated 8,505 retail stores. Starbucks Corporation was founded in 1985 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

ProLogis (NYSE: PLD) operates as a real estate investment trust in the United States. It owns, operates, and develops industrial distribution properties in North America, Europe, and Asia. The company operates in three segments: Property Operations, Fund Management, and Corporate Distribution Facilities Services (CDFS). The Property Operations segment engages in the ownership, management, and leasing of industrial distribution and retail properties. As of December 31, 2005, this segment consisted of 1,461 operating properties with approximately 186.7 million square feet. The Fund Management segment provides investment management services for unconsolidated property funds and other properties. As of the above date, this segment had investments in approximately 14 property funds. The CDFS segment primarily develops properties that are contributed to a property fund or sold to third parties. This segment also engages in commercial mixed-use development activities, such as selling the land or completed projects to third parties. As of the above date, this segment had approximately 72 distribution properties. As a REIT, the company would not be subject to federal tax to the extent that it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its shareholders. It has a strategic cooperation agreement with China National Materials Storage & Transportation Co. and Zhongchu Development Stock Co., Ltd. to develop logistics and storage markets. The company also has a joint venture agreement with K Raheja Corp. for the acquisition and development of properties in Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Kolkata, and Pune, India. ProLogis was founded as Security Capital Industrial Trust in 1991 and changed its name to ProLogis Trust in 1998. Subsequently, it changed its name to ProLogis. The company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

News Corporation (NASDAQ: NWS) and its subsidiaries are a Delaware corporation, incorporated in 2004. News Corporation is a diversified international media and entertainment Company which manages and reports its businesses in eight segments: Filmed Entertainment, which principally consists of the production and acquisition of live-action and animated motion pictures for distribution and licensing in all formats in all entertainment media worldwide, and the production of original television programming primarily in the United States and Canada; Television, which consists of the operation of broadcast television stations in the United States; the broadcasting of network programming in the United States through FOX; and the development, production and broadcasting of television programming in Asia through STAR; Cable Network Programming, which principally consists of the production and licensing of programming distributed through cable television systems and direct broadcast satellite operators in the United States; Direct Broadcast Satellite Television, which principally consists of the distribution of premium programming services via satellite directly to subscribers in Italy; Magazines and Inserts, which principally consist of the publication of free standing inserts, which are promotional booklets containing consumer offers distributed through insertion in local Sunday newspapers in the United States, and providing in-store marketing products and services, primarily to consumer packaged goods manufacturers in the United States and Canada; Newspapers, which principally consist of the publication of four national newspapers in the UK, the publication of more than 110 newspapers in Australia, and the publication of a mass circulation, metropolitan morning newspaper in the United States; Book Publishing, which principally consists of the publication of English language books throughout the world through HarperCollins; and Others, which includes NDS Group plc, which is engaged in the business of supplying digital technology and services, enabling and supporting digital pay-television platform operators and content providers, and Global Cricket Corporation, which has the exclusive rights to broadcast the Cricket World Cup and other related International Cricket Council cricket events through 2007. The Company, through its subsidiaries is engaged in marketing operations and magazine publishing. The Company's U.S. marketing operations are organized under News America Marketing Group. NAMG consists primarily of the free-standing insert division and the in-store division, a provider of in-store promotional services. As a major publisher of newspapers, magazines, free-standing inserts and books, the Company utilizes various types of paper. The Company's paper purchasing is done on a centralized, volume purchase basis, and draws upon major paper manufacturing countries around the world. The Company is a creator, owner and distributor of intellectual property. The Company's intellectual property assets include: copyrights in motion pictures, television programming, newspapers, books, magazines and technologies; trademarks in names, logos and characters; patents or patent applications for inventions related to its products and services; and licenses of intellectual property rights of various kinds. At June 30, 2005, the Company had approximately 44,000 full-time and part-time employees.

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