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The NASDAQ Stock Market Announces Open Short Interest Positions in NASDAQ Stocks for August 2007

Date 24/08/2007

As of mid-August, short interest in 2,747 NASDAQ Global Market(sm) securities totaled 8,809,420,409 shares compared with 9,137,735,499 shares in 2,737 Global Market issues for the month of July. The August short interest represents 3.54 days average daily NASDAQ Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 4.54 days in July.

Short interest in 526 securities on The NASDAQ Capital Market(sm) totaled 191,667,395 shares for August, compared with 200,624,163 shares in 527 securities for the month of July. This represents 3.51 days average daily volume, compared with last month's figure of 3.08.

In summary, short interest in all 3,273 NASDAQ(r) securities totaled 9,001,087,804 shares for August, compared with 3,264 issues and 9,338,359,662 shares in July. This is 3.54 days average daily volume, compared with last month's average of 4.50 days.

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.

The monthly NASDAQ short interest figures are current as of the 15th of the month and are released to the media after the market close on the seventh business day following that date. The figures this month include all short interest positions reported from July 10, 2007 through August 10, 2007 and settled as of August 15, 2007.

The total NASDAQ short positions for the preceding 12 months and current month follow:



                                                 Number of
     Settlement Date   Total Short Interest      Securities
     ---------------   --------------------      ----------

     August 15, 2006       7,268,106,428          3,286
     September 15, 2006    7,353,774,333          3,294
     October 13, 2006      7,414,701,519          3,312
     November 15, 2006     7,004,368,041          3,311
     December 15, 2006     6,924,409,737          3,288
     January 12, 2007      6,884,364,389          3,279
     February 15, 2007     7,044,297,013          3,292
     March 15, 2007        7,893,983,530          3,287
     April 13, 2007        8,011,592,931          3,293
     May 15, 2007          8,400,778,928          3,281
     June 15, 2007         9,170,589,817          3,274
     July 13, 2007         9,338,359,662          3,264
     August 15, 2007       9,001,087,804          3,273

For more information on NASDAQ Short interest positions, including publication dates, visit http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/asp/short_interest.asp.