Nasdaq Announces End-of-Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date May 29, 2020
June 09 2020 - 4:05PM
At the end of the settlement date of May 29, 2020, short interest
in 2,420 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities
totaled 7,896,860,004 shares compared with 7,989,729,389
shares in 2,423 Global Market issues reported for the prior
settlement date of May 15, 2020. The end-of-May short interest
represent 2.74 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume
for the reporting period, compared with 2.90 days for the prior
reporting period.
Short interest in 1,042 securities on The Nasdaq Capital
MarketSM totaled 1,078,521,731 shares at the end of the settlement
date of May 29, 2020 compared with 1,088,545,167 shares in
1,033 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents
1.0 day average daily volume; the previous reporting period’s
figure was also 1.0.
In summary, short interest in all 3,462 Nasdaq® securities
totaled 8,975,381,735 shares at the May 29, 2020 settlement date,
compared with 3,456 issues and 9,078,274,556 shares at the end
of the previous reporting period. This is 2.16 days average daily
volume, compared with an average of 2.36 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
Sheahanmatthew.sheahan@nasdaq.com
NDAQO
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