Nasdaq Announces Mid-Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date June 15, 2016
June 24 2016 - 4:05PM
At the end of the settlement date of June 15, 2016, short interest
in 2,313 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities
totaled 7,830,349,659 shares compared
with 7,885,936,338 shares in 2,307 Global Market issues
reported for the prior settlement date of May 31, 2016. The
Mid-June short interest represents 4.99 days average daily
Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the reporting period,
compared with 4.73 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 768 securities on The Nasdaq Capital
MarketSM totaled 662,995,972 shares at the end of the
settlement date of June 15, 2016 compared with 666,611,494
shares in 761 securities for the previous reporting period.
This represents 3.28 days average daily volume, compared with
the previous reporting period’s figure of 4.04.
In summary, short interest in all 3,081
Nasdaq® securities totaled 8,493,345,631 shares at the
June 15, 2016 settlement date, compared with 3,068 issues
and 8,552,547,832 shares at the end of the previous reporting
period. This is 4.80 days average daily volume, compared with
an average of 4.67 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,
visithttp://www.nasdaq.com/quotes/short-interest.aspxor
http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/asp/short_interest.asp.
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