At the end of the settlement date of January 30, 2015, short interest in 2,264 NASDAQ Global MarketSM securities totaled 7,471,141,201 shares compared with 7,575,444,687 shares in 2,266 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of January 15, 2015. The end-of-January short interest represents 4.20 days average daily NASDAQ Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 5.38 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 653 securities on The NASDAQ Capital MarketSM totaled 697,908,877 shares at the end of the settlement date of January 30, 2015 compared with 704,005,896 shares in 654 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents 5.14 days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting period’s figure of 6.54.
In summary, short interest in all 2,917 NASDAQ® securities totaled 8,169,050,078 shares at the January 30, 2015 settlement date, compared with 2,920 issues and 8,279,450,583 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 4.27 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 5.46 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.
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