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Continental and UAL: An Airline Pair Trade

Used this article as a basis to build a story for my stock lending blog ... thanks

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Stocks with the Largest Short Positions

As mentioned earlier, look at the daily turnover compared to short interest. C short interest is less than one day's turnover. There are plenty of C shares available to short with or without Citi's own involvement. GE is only just over one day. Compare that to AIG with over 4 days trading volume, or GM which is almost 9 days volume.

Is Securities Lending Starting to Dry Up a Little?

A well written article that nicely lays out the key issues. I have a number of further comments on the issues you raise that I include in my blog today.