At the end of the settlement date of September 30, 2024, short interest in 3,067 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 12,246,444,747 shares compared with 12,241,625,467 shares in 3,057 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of September 13, 2024. The mid-September short interest represents 2.94 days compared with 3.06 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 1,663 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 2,136,615,501 shares at the end of the settlement date of September 30, 2024, compared with 2,107,947,669 shares in 1,670 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents a 1.32 day average daily volume; the previous reporting period’s figure was 1.34.
In summary, short interest in all 4,730 Nasdaq® securities totaled 14,383,060,248 shares at the September 30, 2024 settlement date, compared with 4,727 issues and 14,349,573,136 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 2.49 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 2.57 days for the prior 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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