Nasdaq Announces Mid-Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date August 15, 2016
August 24 2016 - 04:05PM
At the end of the settlement date of August 15, 2016, short
interest in 2,334 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities
totaled 7,501,329,605 shares compared with
7,662,477,758 shares in 2,335 Global Market issues
reported for the prior settlement date of July 29, 2016. The
mid-August short interest represents 4.37 days average daily
Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the reporting period,
compared with 5.06 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 771 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM
totaled 624,882,611 shares at the end of the settlement date of
August 15, 2016 compared with 636,275,423 shares in 770 securities
for the previous reporting period. This represents 2.70 days
average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting period’s
figure of 3.09.
In summary, short interest in all 3,105 Nasdaq® securities
totaled 8,126,212,216 shares at the August 15, 2016 settlement
date, compared with 3,105 issues and 8,298,753,181 shares at the
end of the previous reporting period. This is 4.17 days average
daily volume, compared with an average of 4.83 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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