Nasdaq Announces End-of-Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date December 29, 2017
January 10 2018 - 4:05PM
At the end of the settlement date of December 29, 2017, short
interest in 2,355 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled
7,003,385,990 shares compared with 7,459,908,298 shares in 2,344
Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of
December 15, 2017. The end-of-December short interest represents
3.92 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the
reporting period, compared with 4.37 days for the prior reporting
period.
Short interest in 854 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM
totaled 835,922,509 shares at the end of the settlement date of
December 29, 2017 compared with 851,718,169 shares in 859
securities for the previous reporting period. This represents 2.48
days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting
period’s figure of 2.84.
In summary, short interest in all 3,209 Nasdaq® securities
totaled 7,839,308,499 shares at the December 29, 2017 settlement
date, compared with 3,203 issues and 8,311,626,467 shares at the
end of the previous reporting period. This is 3.69 days average
daily volume, compared with an average of 4.14 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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