Nasdaq Announces Mid-Month Open Short Interest Positions In Nasdaq Stocks As Of Settlement Date November 13, 2015

At the end of the settlement date of November 13, 2015, short interest in  2,314  Nasdaq Global Market^SM securities totaled 8,098,096,213  shares compared with 8,219,164,431 shares in 2,311 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of October 30, 2015. The Mid-November short interest represents 4.40 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with  4.91 days for the prior reporting period.

Short interest in 739 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 786,468,678 shares at the end of the settlement date of November 13, 2015 compared with 827,721,639 shares in 732  securities for the previous reporting period. This represents 4.80  days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting period’s figure of 5.63 .

In summary, short interest in all 3,053 Nasdaq® securities totaled 8,884,564,891  shares at the November 13, 2015 settlement date, compared with 3,043 issues and 9,046,886,070 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 4.44 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 4.97 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 orhttp://www.nasdaqtrader.com/asp/short_interest.asp.