At the end of the settlement date of September 15, 2023, short interest in 3,247 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 10,586,849,412 shares compared with 10,277,162,921 shares in 3,267 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of August 31, 2023. The mid-September short interest represents 3.23 days compared with 3.40 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 1,757 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 1,790,495,980 shares at the end of the settlement date of September 15, 2023, compared with 1,740,359,933 shares in 1,771 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents a 1.45 day average daily volume; the previous reporting period’s figure was 1.05.
In summary, short interest in all 5,004 Nasdaq® securities totaled 12,377,345,392 shares at the September 15, 2023 settlement date, compared with 5,038 issues and 12,017,522,854 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 2.74 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 2.57 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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