Nasdaq Announces Mid-Month Open Short Interest Positions in NASDAQ Stocks as of Settlement Date March 13, 2015
March 24 2015 - 4:05PM
At the end of the settlement date of March 13, 2015, short interest
in 2,264 NASDAQ Global MarketSM securities totaled 7,722,396,733
shares compared with 7,619,971,690 shares in 2,269 Global Market
issues reported for the prior settlement date of February 27, 2015.
The Mid-February short interest represents 4.58 days average daily
NASDAQ Global Market share volume for the reporting period,
compared with 4.69 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 666 securities on The NASDAQ Capital MarketSM
totaled 692,707,225 shares at the end of the settlement date of
March 13, 2015 compared with 674,407,421 shares in 658 securities
for the previous reporting period. This represents 3.65 days
average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting period’s
figure of 4.08.
In summary, short interest in all 2,930 NASDAQ® securities
totaled 8,415,103,958 shares at the March 13, 2015 settlement date,
compared with 2,927 issues and 8,294,379,111 shares at the end of
the previous reporting period. This is 4.48 days average daily
volume, compared with an average of 4.64 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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