NEW YORK, April 25, 2017 -- At the end of the settlement date of April 13, 2017, short interest in 2,331 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 7,392,861,463 shares compared with 7,313,893,228 shares in 2,329 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of March 31, 2017. The mid-April short interest represents 4.81 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 4.33 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 795 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 786,725,908 shares at the end of the settlement date of April 13, 2017 compared with 780,531,696 shares in 794 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents 2.61 days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting period’s figure of 2.76.
In summary, short interest in all 3,126 Nasdaq® securities totaled 8,179,587,371 shares at the April 13, 2017 settlement date, compared with 3,123 issues and 8,094,424,924 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 4.44 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 4.10 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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