Nasdaq Announces Mid-Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date April 15, 2016
29 April 2016 - 1:46AM
At the end of the settlement date of April 15, 2016, short interest
in 2,305 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities
totaled 8,009,519,261 shares compared with 8,166,679,657
shares in 2,301 Global Market issues reported for the prior
settlement date of March 31, 2016. The Mid-April short interest
represents 5.12 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share
volume for the reporting period, compared with 4.90 days for the
prior reporting period.
Short interest in 756 securities on The Nasdaq Capital
MarketSM totaled 684,210,608 shares at the end of the
settlement date of April 15, 2016 compared with 695,608,817
shares in 753 securities for the previous reporting period.
This represents 4.74 days average daily volume, compared with
the previous reporting period’s figure of 3.89.
In summary, short interest in all 3,061
Nasdaq® securities totaled 8,693,729,869 shares at the
April 15, 2016 settlement date, compared with 3,054 issues
and 8,862,288,474 shares at the end of the previous reporting
period. This is 5.08 days average daily volume, compared with
an average of 4.8 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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