Volume reached 142.6 million shares, down from 160.4 million on Thursday.

The previous record occurred on April 14, 1989, when the total reached 556.8 million shares.

Trading volume reached 290.7 million shares, moderately more than on Monday.

Trading volume reached 175.5 million shares, down from Friday's 187.9 million.

In the latest period, short interest reached 66.7 million shares, up 7.8 percent from mid-May.

On two days during the rise, trading volume reached 800 million shares, several times the recent average.

Volume reached only 63.35 million shares, compared with 48.86 million on Dec. 26, 1986.

On 12 March, the volume of trading had reached 3,875,910 shares, an all time high.

The stock jumped again yesterday and trading reached nearly 2.3 million shares when the deal became official.

Volume reached 161.2 million shares, compared with 141 million on Monday.