fallacy of liquidity - cer vs cnp, page-21

Hi Scorpiogirl, below should answer your question.

avagooday

source:
http://www.asx.com.au/data/shortsell.txt

Daily Gross Short Sales reported for 19-Feb-2009
CER CENTRO RETAIL GROUP STAPLED

Total Shares Sold: 12,852,227
*.* Reported Gross Short Sales: 23,576
Reported Gross Short Sales % of Turnover: 0.18
Daily Change in Security Price %: -11.76
Issued Capital: 2,286,399,424

may not be many shares, it is still shorted!