Nasdaq Announces Mid-Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date April 13, 2018
April 24 2018 - 4:50PM
At the end of the settlement date of April 13, 2018, short interest
in 2,332 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities
totaled 7,225,723,436 shares compared with 7,182,505,080
shares in 2,335 Global Market issues reported for the prior
settlement date of March 29, 2018. The mid-April short interest
represents 3.68 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share
volume for the reporting period, compared with 3.80 days for
the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 888 securities on The Nasdaq Capital
MarketSM totaled 1,047,853,121 shares at the end of the
settlement date of April 13, 2018 compared with 981,869,764
shares in 884 securities for the previous reporting period.
This represents 2.52 days average daily volume, compared with
the previous reporting period’s figure of 2.40.
In summary, short interest in all 3,220
Nasdaq® securities totaled 8,273,576,557 shares at the
April 13, 2018 settlement date, compared with 3,219 issues
and 8,164,374,844 shares at the end of the previous reporting
period. This is 3.47 days average daily volume, compared with
an average of 3.55 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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