NEW YORK, Feb. 27, 2017 -- At the end of the settlement date of February 15, 2017, short interest in 2,351 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 7,247,866,478 shares compared with 7,153,961,241 shares in 2,352 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of January 31, 2017. The mid-February short interest represents 4.49 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 4.86 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 791 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 696,841,525 shares at the end of the settlement date of January 31, 2017 compared with 684,855,487 shares in 793 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents 2.36 days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting period’s figure of 2.26.
In summary, short interest in all 3,142 Nasdaq® securities totaled 7,944,708,003 shares at the January 31, 2017 settlement date, compared with 3,145 issues and 7,838,816,728 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 4.16 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 4.41 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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