Short Interest Moves In Boeing And Other Defense Stocks (BA, GD, TXT)
September 29, 2013 at 15:50 PM EDT
Between the August 30 and September 15 settlement dates, the number of shares sold short in defense stocks Boeing (NYSE: BA ), General Dynamics (NYSE: GD ) and Textron (NYSE: TXT ) rose by double-digit percentages. In that period, the effects of the federal budget sequester were well