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NEW YORK, Jan. 27, 2016 -- At the end of the settlement date of January 15, 2016, short interest in 2,308 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 8,194,947,190 shares compared with 7,935,162,458 shares in 2,304 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of December 31, 2015. The Mid-January short interest represents 5.32 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 4.26 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 740 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 777,219,830 shares at the end of the settlement date of January 15, 2016 compared with 741,235,367 shares in 751 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents 4.19 days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting period’s figure of 3.80.
In summary, short interest in all 3,048 Nasdaq® securities totaled 8,972,167,020 shares at the January 15, 2016 settlement date, compared with 3,055 issues and 8,676,397,825 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 5.19 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.
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