NASDAQ Announces End-Of-Month Open Short Interest Positions In NASDAQ Stocks As Of Settlement Date December 31, 2012

At the end of the settlement date of December 31, 2012, short interest in 2,143 NASDAQ Global Market^SM securities totaled 6,851,334,504 shares compared with 7,226,471,989 shares in 2,156 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of December 14, 2012. The end-of-December short interest represents 3.67 days average daily NASDAQ Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 4.32 days for the prior reporting period.

Short interest in 507 securities on The NASDAQ Capital Market^SM totaled 351,024,212 shares at the end of the settlement date of December 31, 2012 compared with 366,335,563 shares in 505 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents 4.79 days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting period's figure of 5.47.

In summary, short interest in all 2,650 NASDAQ® securities totaled 7,202,358,716 shares at the December 31, 2012 settlement date, compared with 2,650 issues and 7,592,807,552 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 3.71 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 4.37 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.