At the end of the settlement date of October 14, 2011, short interest in 2,288 NASDAQ Global MarketSM securities totaled 7,157,409,848 shares compared with 7,336,588,704 shares in 2,290 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of September 30, 2011. The mid-October short interest represents 3.15 days average daily NASDAQ Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 3.39 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 495 securities on The NASDAQ Capital MarketSM totaled 355,968,209 shares at the end of the settlement date of October 14, 2011 compared with 360,549,494 shares in 493 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents 7.46 days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting period's figure of 7.80.
In summary, short interest in all 2,783 NASDAQ® securities totaled 7,513,378,057 shares at the October 14, 2011 settlement date, compared with 2,783 issues and 7,697,138,198 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 3.24 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 3.49 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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