NEW YORK, April 11, 2017 -- At the end of the settlement date of March 31, 2017, short interest in 2,329 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 7,313,893,228 shares compared with 7,352,374,802 shares in 2,328 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of March 15, 2017. The end-of-March short interest represents 4.33 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 4.54 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 794 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 780,531,696 shares at the end of the settlement date of March 31, 2017 compared with 745,373,946 shares in 797 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents 2.76 days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting period’s figure of 2.45.
In summary, short interest in all 3,123 Nasdaq® securities totaled 8,094,424,924 shares at the March 31, 2017 settlement date, compared with 3,125 issues and 8,097,748,748 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 4.10 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 4.21 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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