Nasdaq Announces End-of-Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date July 31, 2020
August 11 2020 - 7:00PM
This is a correction for a release issued Tuesday, August 11th
at 6:22 PM ET. The number of shares listed in the third paragraph
was incorrect. The complete and corrected release follows:
At the end of the settlement date of July 31, 2020, short
interest in 2,455 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled
7,932,329,822 shares compared with 8,029,866,866 shares in 2,445
Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of July
15, 2020. The end-of-June short interest represent 2.75 days
average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the reporting
period, compared with 2.71 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 1,062 securities on The Nasdaq Capital
MarketSM totaled 1,235,640,598 shares at the end of the settlement
date of July 31, 2020 compared with 1,189,360,959 shares in 1,053
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 3,517 Nasdaq® securities
totaled 9,167,970,420 shares at the July 31, 2020 settlement date,
compared with 3,498 issues and 9,219,227,825 shares at the end of
the previous reporting period. This is 2.09 days average daily
volume, compared with an average of 1.92 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
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