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Top 50 most expensive stocks to short

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Below is a list of the 50 most expensive stocks to short as of March 17, ranked in descending cost. The stocks are expensive to short because they are expensive to borrow in the securities lending market.

The right-hand column is the change in cost-to-borrow over the prior week.


Name Ticker Change in cost-to-borrow (bps)
DEARBORN BANCORP INC DEAR 52
CENTRAL PAC FINL CORP CPF 414
NEOPROBE CORP NEOP 1,698
EVERGREEN SOLAR INC ESLR 735
CHINA MEDIAEXPRESS HLDGS INC CCME 1,678
YRC WORLDWIDE INC YRCW 225
CHINA AGRITECH INC CAGC 1,395
MACATAWA BK CORP MCBC -1,335
PAB BANKSHARES INC PABK -345
SOMAXON PHARMACEUTICALS INC SOMX 1,541
GREEN BANKSHARES INC GRNB 486
ANCHOR BANCORP WIS INC ABCW 127
RESVERLOGIX CORP RVX.TSX 280
CHINA-BIOTICS INC CHBT -342
RADIENT PHARMACEUTICALS CORP RPC -143
CONNS INC CONN 1,170
TELESTONE TECHNOLOGIES CORP TSTC -712
CHINA SHEN ZHOU MNG & RES IN SHZ 646
PACIFIC ETHANOL INC PEIX 112
CHINA BIOLOGIC PRODS INC CBPO 3,049
CASCADE BANCORP CACB 639
QUANTUM FUEL SYS TECH WORLDW QTWW 566
ST JOE CO JOE 1,217
ROYALE ENERGY INC ROYL 1,590
BSD MED CORP DEL BSDM -88
HOKU CORP HOKU 5
PRINCETON NATL BANCORP INC PNBC -595
CHINA GREEN AGRICULTURE INC CGA -285
LIFE PARTNERS HOLDINGS INC LPHI -47
ZENN MOTOR CO INC ZNN.TSXV 490
OLD SECOND BANCORP INC ILL OSBC 35
GREAT NORTHN IRON ORE PPTYS GNI 467
ADVANCED BATTERY TECHNOLOG I ABAT 3,262
CHINA PRECISION STEEL INC CPSL 167
FEIHE INTL INC ADY -264
INTEGRA BK CORP IBNK 109
BRITTON & KOONTZ CAP CORP BKBK -1
RUBICON TECHNOLOGY INC RBCN -188
HSW INTERNATIONAL INC HSWI 2,072
DARA BIOSCIENCES INC DARA -46
FIRST FED BANCSHARES ARK FFBH 91
LUCAS ENERGY INC LEI 624
ASCENT SOLAR TECHNOLOGIES IN ASTI -42
CASCADE FINL CORP CASB -14,296
STAR SCIENTIFIC INC CIGX -131
CELSION CORPORATION CLSN 189
URANIUM ENERGY CORP UEC -26
WORLD HEART CORP WHRT 173
CYBERDEFENDER CORP CYDE 207

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