Nasdaq Announces Mid-Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date September 15, 2016
September 26 2016 - 4:05PM
At the end of the settlement date of September 15, 2016, short
interest in 2,320 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities
totaled 7,538,279,223 shares compared with
7,371,196,258 shares in 2,329 Global Market
issues reported for the prior settlement date of August 31, 2016.
The mid-September short interest represents 5.32 days
average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the reporting
period, compared with 5.23 days for the prior reporting
period.
Short interest in 772 securities on The Nasdaq
Capital MarketSM totaled 656,881,748 shares at the end
of the settlement date of September 15, 2016 compared with
624,916,137 shares in 778 securities for
the previous reporting period. This represents 2.93
days average daily volume, compared with the previous
reporting period’s figure of 2.93.
In summary, short interest in all 3,092
Nasdaq® securities totaled 8,195,160,971
shares at the September 15, 2016 settlement date, compared
with 3,107 issues and 7,996,112,395 shares
at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 4.99
days average daily volume, compared with an average of 4.93
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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