Nasdaq Announces End-of-Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date October 31, 2019
November 11 2019 - 4:05PM
At the end of the settlement date of October 31, 2019, short
interest in 2,376 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities
totaled 8,255,893,816 shares compared with 8,313,537,316
shares in 2,382 Global Market issues reported for the prior
settlement date of October 15, 2019. The end-of-September short
interest represents 5.27 days average daily Nasdaq Global
Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 4.64
days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 1,004 securities on The Nasdaq Capital
MarketSM totaled 888,498,515 shares at the end of the
settlement date of October 31, 2019 compared with 895,089,898
shares in 1,002 securities for the previous reporting period.
This represents 3.41 days average daily volume, compared with
the previous reporting period’s figure of 3.63.
In summary, short interest in all 3,380 Nasdaq® securities
totaled 9,144,392,331 shares at the October 31, 2019 settlement
date, compared with 3,380 issues and 9,208,627,214 shares
at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 5.01 days
average daily volume, compared with an average of 4.52 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.aspx or
http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/asp/short_interest.asp.
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Media Contact:Matthew
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