At the end of the settlement date of August 15, 2024, short interest in 3,037 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 12,277,781,936 shares compared with 11,985,723,964 shares in 3,043 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of July 31, 2024. The mid-August short interest represents 2.62 days compared with 2.90 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 1,669 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 2,136,281,640 shares at the end of the settlement date of August 15, 2024, compared with 2,082,532,251 shares in 1,692 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents a 1.51 day average daily volume; the previous reporting period’s figure was 1.29.
In summary, short interest in all 4,706 Nasdaq® securities totaled 14,414,063,576 shares at the August 15, 2024 settlement date, compared with 4,735 issues and 14,068,256,215 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 2.36 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 2.44 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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