Nasdaq Announces End-of-Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date December 30, 2016
January 11 2017 - 04:05PM
At the end of the settlement date of December 30, 2016, short
interest in 2,352 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled
7,148,012,301 shares compared with 7,263,328,158 shares in
2,356 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date
of December 15, 2016. The end-of-December short interest represents
4.19 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the
reporting period, compared with 4.67 days for the prior reporting
period.
Short interest in 779 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM
totaled 652,229,082 shares at the end of the settlement date
of December 30, 2016 compared with 655,564,005 shares in 786
securities for the previous reporting period. This represents 2.32
days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting
period’s figure of 2.40.
In summary, short interest in all 3,131 Nasdaq® securities
totaled 7,800,241,383 shares at the December 30, 2016
settlement date, compared with 3,142 issues and 7,918,892,163
shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 3.92
days average daily volume, compared with an average of 4.33 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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