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Short Sale Recap. Highest Daily Short Volume All Exchanges Combined For Wednesday

^{Published on 2009-11-05 06:56:19, Last Modified on 2010-12-22 17:30:21 - WOPRAI}
 

November 5, 2009 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET, www.buyins.net, has reviewed the NYSE, NASDAQ, BX, CHX and NSX Daily Short Volume Report for Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 and come to the following statistical conclusions. The chart below highlights 6 stocks that had unusually high daily short volume. Kraft Foods (NYSE: KFT), Hartford Financial Services (NYSE: HIG), STEC, Inc. (NASDAQ: STEC), El Paso Corp (NYSE: EP), IAMGOLD (NYSE: IAG) and Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO). To access SqueezeTrigger Prices ahead of potential short squeezes beginning, visit http://www.buyins.net.

Symbol Short Volume Total Volume Percent

KFT 2,199,491 28,756,054 7.65%

HIG 2,107,756 27,107,395 7.78%

STEC 1,967,991 31,924,624 6.16%

EP 1,474,050 20,379,961 7.23%

IAG 1,346,210 11,234,415 11.98%

YHOO 1,307,954 18,694,823 7.00%

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 exchangesa'a" 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.

Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT), together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets packaged food products and grocery products worldwide. The company offers snacks, including cookies, crackers, salted snacks, and chocolate confectionary; beverages, including coffee, packaged juice drinks, and powdered beverages; cheese, including natural, process, and cream cheeses; and grocery, including spoonable and pourable dressings, condiments, and desserts. It also offers convenient meals, including primarily frozen pizza, packaged dinners, lunch combinations, and processed meats. Kraft Foods markets its products under various brand names, primarily including Kraft cheeses, dinners and dressings; Oscar Mayer meats; Philadelphia cream cheese; Maxwell House and Jacobs coffee; Nabisco cookies and crackers and its Oreo cookie brand; Milka chocolates; and LU biscuits. It sells its products to supermarket chains, wholesalers, super centers, club stores, mass merchandisers, distributors, convenience stores, gasoline stations, drug stores, value stores, and other retail food outlets. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Northfield, Illinois. Kraft Foods Inc. operates independently of Altria Group Inc. as of March 30, 2007.

The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: HIG), through its subsidiaries, provides insurance and financial services in the United States and internationally. It engages in life, and property and casualty insurance businesses. The life insurance business comprises six segments: Retail Products Group (Retail), Retirement Plans, International and Institutional Solutions Group (Institutional), Individual Life, Group Benefits, and International. Retail segment offers variable and fixed market value adjusted annuities, retail mutual funds, 529 college savings plans, and Canadian and offshore investment products. Retirement Plans segment provides products and services to corporations and municipalities. Institutional segment offers institutional liability products and variable private placement life insurance, as well as mutual funds to institutional investors. Individual Life segment sells variable universal, whole, and term life products. Group Benefits segment offers group life, accident, and disability coverage. International segment provides investments, retirement savings, and other insurance and savings products in Japan, Brazil, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. The property and casualty insurance business includes five segments: Personal Lines, Small Commercial, Middle Market, Specialty Commercial, and Other Operations. Personal Lines segment offers automobile, homeownersa�, and home-based business coverage. Small Commercial segment provides standard commercial insurance coverage to small commercial businesses. Other Operations segment comprises certain property and casualty insurance operations, including the companya�s asbestos and environmental exposures. The company was formerly known as ITT-Hartford Group, Inc. and changed its name in 1972. The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. was founded in 1810 and is headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut.

STEC, Inc. (NASDAQ: STEC) designs, develops, manufactures, and markets custom memory solutions based on flash memory and dynamic random access memory (DRAM) technologies. Its solid-state drive products include ZeusIOPS solid state drives that provide enterprise-class data storage solutions; MACH8IOPS solid state drives, which are small form factor storage solution for mission-critical systems in various industries; ATA PC cards for equipment requiring standard form factors and moderate capacities, such as data recorders, avionics systems, and telecommunication applications; CompactFlash products that provide interoperability with systems based on the PC Card ATA standard by using passive adapter; flash modules; secure digital memory cards; USB flash drive; and single chip drives. The company also offers DRAM products, which include dual in-line memory modules (DIMMs), small-outline DIMMs, mini-registered DIMMs (mini-RDIMMs), very low profile RDIMMs, and fully-buffered DIMMs or FB-DIMMs for computing, communications, and industrial applications. In addition, it provides integrated circuit tower stacked components for thin small outline package and ball grid array (BGA) semiconductor packages for use on memory modules and within high capacity flash products; postage stamp BGA stacked components; DRAM modules with stacked components for use primarily in high-performance servers, workstations, switches and routers, and other custom system; and flash products with stacked components for embedded systems. STEC sells its products through direct sales force, manufacturersa� representatives, and original equipment manufacturer distributors in the United States and internationally. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Santa Ana, California.

El Paso Corporation (NYSE: EP) operates in the natural gas transmission, and exploration and production sectors of the energy industry in the United States. It offers natural gas transmission services to a range of customers, including natural gas producers, marketers, and end-users, as well as other natural gas transmission, distribution, and electric generation companies through its interests in approximately 42,000 miles of interstate pipeline system. The company also operates approximately 230 billion cubic feet of storage capacity, and an LNG receiving terminal and related facilities in Elba Island, Georgia. El Paso also focuses on the exploration, acquisition, development, and production of natural gas, oil, and natural gas liquids in the United States, Brazil, and Egypt. As of December 31, 2008, the company held an estimated 2.3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas equivalents of proved natural gas and oil reserves. In addition, it holds interests in international power plants located in Brazil, Asia, Central America, and South America. The company sells power to power transmission and distribution companies owned by local governments. El Paso Corporation was founded in 1928 and is based in Houston, Texas.

IAMGOLD Corporation (NYSE: IAG), together with its subsidiaries, engages in the exploration for, and the development and production of, mineral resource properties worldwide. It primarily explores for gold, silver, zinc, niobium, diamonds, precious metals, and copper. The company holds interest in seven operating gold mines, a niobium producer, a diamond royalty, and exploration and development projects located in Africa and the Americas. Its exploration and development projects include the Westwood project in Canada, the Quimsacocha project in Ecuador, and the Camp Caiman project in French Guiana. The company was formerly known as IAMGOLD International African Mining Gold Corporation and changed its name to IAMGOLD Corporation in June 1997. IAMGOLD Corporation was founded in 1990 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) provides Internet services to users, advertisers, publishers, and developers worldwide. The company owns and operates online properties and services, and provides its advertising offerings and access to Internet users through its distribution network of third-party entities, as well as offers marketing services to advertisers and publishers. Its Front Doors offerings include Yahoo! Front Page, My Yahoo!, and Yahoo! Toolbar; Communities offerings consist of Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, and Flickr to organize into groups and share knowledge and photos; and Search products comprise Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! Local, Yahoo! Yellow Pages, and Yahoo! Maps to navigate through the Internet and search for information. It also offers Communications offerings comprising Yahoo! Mail, Zimbra Mail, and Yahoo! Messenger that provide communication services to users and small businesses through its broadband Internet access partners. In addition, the companya"s Audience offerings include Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, and Yahoo! Sports, as well as Yahoo! Autos, Yahoo! Food, Yahoo! Games, Yahoo! Health, Yahoo! Kids, Yahoo! Movies, Yahoo! Music, Yahoo! Personals, Yahoo! Real Estate, Shine, Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Tech, Yahoo! Travel, Yahoo! TV, and omg!. Further, its Connected Life business includes Yahoo! Mobile and Yahoo! Connected TV that offer services designed to provide users with access to the open Internet and their Yahoo! content and communities across various Internet-enabled devices, including mobile devices and television. The company also offers Yahoo! HotJobs, which provides comprehensive solutions for employers, staffing firms, and job seekers; and Yahoo! Small Business that offers a comprehensive and integrated suite of fee-based online services, including Yahoo! Domains, Yahoo! Web Hosting, and Yahoo! Business Mail, as well as e-commerce platform called Yahoo! Merchant Solutions. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

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