At the end of the settlement date of June 15, 2015, short interest in 2,280 NASDAQ Global MarketSM securities totaled 8,089,327,605 shares compared with 7,823,088,546 shares in 2,275 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of May 29, 2015. The Mid-June short interest represents 5.02 days average daily NASDAQ Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 5.05 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 696 securities on The NASDAQ Capital MarketSM totaled 780,034,535 shares at the end of the settlement date of June 15, 2015 compared with 756,332,371 shares in 694 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents 4.26 days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting period’s figure of 4.55.
In summary, short interest in all 2,976 NASDAQ® securities totaled 8,869,362,140 shares at the June 15, 2015 settlement date, compared with 2,969 issues and 8,579,420,917 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 4.94 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 5.00 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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