Tuesday, June 26, 2007

RadioShack and Amazon.com Burn Short Sellers With S&P 500's Top Gains

(Bloomberg) -- RadioShack Corp. and Amazon.com Inc.
have defied short sellers and Wall Street analysts this year by
posting the top gains in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.

Shares of RadioShack, the third-largest U.S. electronics
chain, and Amazon, the world's biggest online retailer, were
among the 10 most-shorted in the S&P 500 as of June 15,
according to data from the New York Stock Exchange and the
Nasdaq Stock Market. Short sellers try to profit from stock
declines by selling borrowed shares and buying them back at a
lower price.


Read more at Bloomberg Stocks News

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