Nasdaq Announces Mid-Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date March 15, 2017
March 24 2017 - 4:05PM
At the end of the settlement date of March 15, 2017, short interest
in 2,328 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 7,352,374,802
shares compared with 7,280,848,100 shares in 2,345 Global
Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of February
28, 2017. The mid-March short interest represents 4.54 days
average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the reporting
period, compared with 4.47 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 797 securities on The Nasdaq
Capital MarketSM totaled 745,373,946 shares at the end of the
settlement date of March 15, 2017 compared with 706,233,838
shares in 792 securities for the previous reporting period.
This represents 2.45 days average daily volume, compared with
the previous reporting period’s figure of 2.32.
In summary, short interest in all 3,125
Nasdaq® securities totaled 8,097,748,748 shares at the
March 15, 2017 settlement date, compared with 3,137 issues
and 7,987,081,938 shares at the end of the previous reporting
period. This is 4.21 days average daily volume, compared with
an average of 4.13 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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