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At the end of the settlement date of May 31, 2018, short interest in 2,332 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 7,265,743,263 shares compared with 7,154,838,079 shares in 2,341 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of May 15, 2018. The end-of-May short interest represents 4.33 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 4.04 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 883 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 1,087,845,289 shares at the end of the settlement date of May 31, 2018 compared with 1,048,689,714 shares in 885 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents 2.76 days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting period’s figure of 3.30.
In summary, short interest in all 3,215 Nasdaq® securities totaled 8,353,588,552 shares at the May 31, 2018 settlement date, compared with 3,226 issues and 8,203,527,793 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 4.03 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 3.93 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.
For more information on Nasdaq Short interest positions, including publication dates, visit
http://www.nasdaq.com/quotes/short-interest.aspx or http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/asp/short_interest.asp.
