At the end of the settlement date of August 14, 2015, short interest in 2,315 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 7,958,123,435 shares compared with 7,830,242,446 shares in 2,308 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of July 31, 2015. The Mid-August short interest represents 4.34 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 4.65 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 723 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 852,159,323 shares at the end of the settlement date of August 14, 2015 compared with 858,941,236 shares in 709 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents 6.21 days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting period’s figure of 6.05.
In summary, short interest in all 3,038 Nasdaq® securities totaled 8,810,282,758 shares at the August 14, 2015 settlement date, compared with 3,017 issues and 8,689,183,682 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 4.47 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 4.76 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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