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NEW YORK, Aug. 09, 2017 -- At the end of the settlement date of July 31, 2017, short interest in 2,329 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 7,281,448,640 shares compared with 7,281,796,748 shares in 2,327 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of July 14, 2017. The end-of-July short interest represents 5.14 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 5.14 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 840 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 902,474,679 shares at the end of the settlement date of July 31, 2017 compared with 900,156,200 shares in 827 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents 3.61 days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting period’s figure of 3.60.
In summary, short interest in all 3,169 Nasdaq® securities totaled 8,183,923,319 shares at the July 31, 2017 settlement date, compared with 3,154 issues and 8,181,952,948 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 4.91 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 4.91 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 or http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/asp/short_interest.asp.
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