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STLD, ITUB, JBLU, ERTS, AMGN, AMZN With Highest Daily Short Volume On NASDAQ Tuesday

^{Published on 2009-10-20 15:38:31, Last Modified on 2010-12-22 17:19:16 - WOPRAI}
 

October 21, 2009 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET, www.buyins.net, has reviewed the NASDAQ Daily Short Volume Report for Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 and come to the following statistical conclusions. There were 6,826 stocks with daily short volume reported and total NASDAQ trading volume of 1,840,523,430 shares. Total Daily Short Volume was 932,111,316 shares. 50.64% of all trading on the NASDAQ Tuesday was short selling. The chart below highlights 6 stocks that had the highest daily short volume yesterday. Steel Dynamics (NASDAQ: STLD), Itau Unibanco (NYSE: ITUB), JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ: JBLU), Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS), Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) and Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN). To access SqueezeTrigger Prices ahead of potential short squeezes beginning, visit http://www.buyins.net.

DATE SYMBOL SHORT VOLUME TOTAL VOLUME MARKET PERCENT

20091020 STLD 2,179,570 4,374,311 Q 49.83%

20091020 ITUB 1,781,979 4,469,755 Q 39.87%

20091020 JBLU 1,590,483 2,484,393 Q 64.02%

20091020 ERTS 1,579,985 3,809,439 Q 41.48%

20091020 AMGN 1,197,709 3,881,548 Q 30.86%

20091020 AMZN 1,152,141 2,674,823 Q 43.07%

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� 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.

Steel Dynamics, Inc. (NASDAQ: STLD), together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of steel products in the United States. It operates in three segments: Steel Operations, Steel Fabrication Operations, and Metals Recycling and Ferrous Resources Operations. The Steel Operations segment offers hot rolled, cold rolled, and coated steel products, including light gauge hot-rolled, galvanized, and painted products; structural steel beams and pilings; rail products; special bar quality and merchant bar quality rounds, and round-cornered squares; and billets and merchant steel products, such as angles, plain rounds, flats, and channels. This segment serves cold finishers, forgers, intermediate processors, original equipment manufacturers, steel service centers, and fabricators. The Steel Fabrication Operations segment engages in fabricating trusses, girders, steel joists, and steel decking used within the nonresidential construction industry. The Metals Recycling and Ferrous Resources Operations segment offers heavy melting steel, busheling, bundled scrap, shredded scrap, and other scrap metal products, such as steel turnings and cast iron used in foundry and steel mill applications. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. (NYSE: ITUB), together with its subsidiaries, provides various credit and other financial services to individuals, small and medium-sized companies, and large corporations in Brazil and internationally. The companya�s deposit products include demand, savings, time, and other deposits. Its loan portfolio comprises commercial, real estate, lease financing, government, agricultural, and personal loans. Itau Unibanco Holding also offers fund management, portfolio management, brokerage, and custody services; credit cards; automobile, life, and property and casualty insurance products, as well as private retirement plans and capitalization plans; wholesale banking services to large corporations; consumer credit transactions and payroll advance, vehicle financing, and credit card transactions; and investment banking and advisory services. In addition, the company provides financial products, such as trade financing, loans from multilateral credit agencies, off-shore loans, international cash management services, foreign exchange, letters of credit, guarantees required in international bidding processes, derivatives for hedging or proprietary trading purposes, structured transactions, and international capital markets offerings. As of December 31, 2008, it operated 2,715 branches, 734 customer site branches, and 22,868 automated teller machines. The company was formerly known as Banco Itau Holding Financeira S.A. and changed its name to Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. in April 2009. The company was founded in 1944 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. is a subsidiary of Itau Unibanco Participacoes S.A.

JetBlue Airways Corporation (NASDAQ: JBLU) provides passenger air transportation services in the United States. As of December 31, 2008, it operated approximately 600 daily flights serving 52 destinations in 19 states, Puerto Rico, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Latin America with a focus on Boston, Fort Lauderdale, Los Angeles/Long Beach, New York/JFK, or Orlando; and a fleet of 107 Airbus A320 aircraft and 35 EMBRAER 190 aircraft. The company, through its subsidiary LiveTV, LLC, also provides in-flight entertainment systems, voice communication, and data connectivity services for commercial aircraft and general aviation aircraft, including live in-seat satellite television, XM satellite radio service, wireless aircraft data communication service, and cabin surveillance systems. JetBlue Airways Corporation was founded in 1998 and is based in Forest Hills, New York.

Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) develops, markets, publishes, and distributes video game software and content. Its software and content are playable on various consumer platforms, such as video game consoles, personal computers, handheld game players, and wireless devices, such as cellular and smart phones. The company develops and markets a portfolio of games under the EA brand in categories, such as action-adventure, role playing, racing, and combat games; and massively-multiplayer online role-playing games under the EA Games label. It also provides a collection of sports-based video games, such as simulated sports based on real-world sports leagues, players, events, and venues, as well as casual games with arcade-style gameplay and graphics under EA SPORT label. In addition, the company creates games under EA Play label for core and non-core gamers of various ages, which include life simulation games, The Sims and MySims; and games published under licenses, such as Harry Potter under license from Warner Bros.; and video games based on Hasbro board games and toys. Further, it offers casual games, such as card games, puzzle games, and word games through its Pogo online service, as well as provides Internet-based advertising and digital content; and games and other content for wireless devices through wireless carriers. The company provides its products through mass market retailers, electronics specialty stores, game software specialty stores, online stores, and mail-order, as well as distributors. It has operations in North America, Europe, Australia, Asia, and Latin America. Electronic Arts Inc. was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN), a biotechnology company, engages in the discovery, development, manufacture, and marketing of human therapeutics based on advances in cellular and molecular biology. The company markets human therapeutic products primarily in the areas of supportive cancer care, nephrology, and inflammation. Its principal products include Aranesp and EPOGEN that stimulate the production of red blood cells to treat anemia; Neulasta and NEUPOGEN, which selectively stimulate the production of neutrophils, a type of white blood cell that helps the body fight infections; and ENBREL that blocks the biologic activity of tumor necrosis factor by inhibiting TNF, a substance induced in response to inflammatory and immunological responses, such as rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis. The company has a joint venture with Kirin Holdings Company, Limited to manufacture and market darbepoetin alfa; a co-promotion agreement with Wyeth for marketing and selling of ENBREL; and Johnson & Johnson to commercialize recombinant human erythropoietin as a human therapeutic. It markets its products to healthcare providers, including physicians or their clinics, dialysis centers, hospitals, and pharmacies primarily in the United States, Europe, and Canada. The company was founded in 1980 and is based in Thousand Oaks, California.

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) operates as an online retailer in North America and internationally. It operates various retail Web sites, including amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, amazon.de, amazon.fr, amazon.co.jp, amazon.ca, and amazon.cn. The company serves its consumer customers through its retail Websites and focuses on selection, price, and convenience. It also offers programs that enable seller customers to sell their products on its Websites and their own branded Websites. In addition, the company serves developer customers through Amazon Web Services, which provides access to technology infrastructure that developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. Further, it offers co-branded credit card programs, fulfillment, and other marketing and promotional services, such as online advertising. Amazon.com, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

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