Nasdaq Announces End-of-Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date January 31, 2017
February 09 2017 - 4:05PM
At the end of the settlement date of January 31, 2017, short
interest in 2,352 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled
7,153,961,241 shares compared with 7,113,199,016 shares in 2,355
Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of
January 13, 2017. The end-of-January short interest represents 4.86
days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the
reporting period, compared with 5.37 days for the prior reporting
period.
Short interest in 793 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM
totaled 684,855,487 shares at the end of the settlement date of
January 31, 2017 compared with 652,694,509 shares in 778 securities
for the previous reporting period. This represents 2.26 days
average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting period’s
figure of 3.16.
In summary, short interest in all 3,145 Nasdaq® securities
totaled 7,838,816,728 shares at the January 31, 2017 settlement
date, compared with 3,133 issues and 7,765,893,525 shares at the
end of the previous reporting period. This is 4.41 days average
daily volume, compared with an average of 5.07 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,
visithttp://www.nasdaq.com/quotes/short-interest.aspxor
http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/asp/short_interest.asp.
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