At the end of the settlement date November 15, 2012, short interest in 2,161 NASDAQ Global MarketSM securities totaled 7,228,550,429 shares compared with 7,135,663,725 shares in 2,171 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of October 31, 2012. The mid-November short interest represents 4.00 days average daily NASDAQ Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 4.20 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 496 securities on The NASDAQ Capital MarketSM totaled 357,022,222 shares at the end of the settlement date of November 15, 2012 compared with 355,096,645 shares in 499 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents 6.50 days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting period's figure of 5.12.
In summary, short interest in all 2,657 NASDAQ® securities totaled 7,585,572,651 shares at the November 15, 2012 settlement date, compared with 2,670 issues and 7,490,760,370 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 4.08 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 4.23 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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