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NEW YORK, Aug. 09, 2016 -- At the end of the settlement date of July 29, 2016, short interest in 2,335 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 7,662,477,758 shares compared with 7,875,755,447 shares in 2,329 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of July 15, 2016. The end-of-July short interest represents 5.06 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 3.89 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 770 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 636,275,423 shares at the end of the settlement date of July 29, 2016 compared with 636,719,805 shares in 755 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents 3.09 days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting period’s figure of 2.96.
In summary, short interest in all 3,105 Nasdaq® securities totaled 8,298,753,181 shares at the July 29, 2016 settlement date, compared with 3,084 issues and 8,512,475,252 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 4.83 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 3.80 days for the previous reporting period.
The open short interest positions reported for each Nasdaq security reflect the total number of shares sold short by all broker/dealers regardless of their exchange affiliations. A short sale is generally understood to mean the sale of a security that the seller does not own or any sale that is consummated by the delivery of a security borrowed by or for the account of the seller.
For more information on Nasdaq Short interest positions, including publication dates, visit
http://www.nasdaq.com/quotes/short-interest.aspx
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