Short Interest Swings in Defense Stocks (BA, FLIR, HII)
March 27, 2013 at 14:05 PM EDT
By and large short sellers of defense stocks were not spurred to further action when the federal budget sequester went into effect. The number of shares sold short in Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK ), Esterline Technologies (NYSE: ESL ) and General Dynamics (NYSE: GD ) increased somewhat between