At the end of the settlement date of May 15, 2017, short interest in 2,326 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 7,420,291,077 shares compared with 7,409,700,882 shares in 2,322 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of April 28, 2017. The mid-May short interest represents 4.42 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 5.23 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 816 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 813,368,216 shares at the end of the settlement date of May 15, 2017 compared with 811,108,534 shares in 799 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents 2.96 days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting period’s figure of 3.24
In summary, short interest in all 3,142 Nasdaq® securities totaled 8,233,659,293 shares at the May 15, 2017 settlement date, compared with 3,121 issues and 8,220,809,416 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 4.22 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 4.94 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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