CORRECTING and REPLACING -- Nasdaq Announces End-of-Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Dat...
October 10 2017 - 5:54PM
In a release issued under the same headline earlier today
by Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ), please note that the number of
shares and settlement dates in the first three paragraphs have been
updated, as has the media contact information. The corrected
release follows:
At the end of the settlement date of September 29, 2017, short
interest in 2,340 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled
7,409,589,390 shares compared with 7,668,720,475 shares in 2,341
Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of
September 15, 2017. The end-of-September short interest represents
4.55 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the
reporting period, compared with 5.30 days for the prior reporting
period.
Short interest in 841 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM
totaled 811,006,014 shares at the end of the settlement date of
September 29, 2017 compared with 878,775,433 shares in 852
securities for the previous reporting period. This represents 2.63
days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting
period’s figure of 3.06.
In summary, short interest in all 3,181 Nasdaq® securities
totaled 8,220,595,404 shares at the September 29, 2017 settlement
date, compared with 3,193 issues and 8,547,495,908 shares at the
end of the previous reporting period. This is 4.24 days average
daily volume, compared with an average of 4.93 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.
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