Nasdaq Announces End-of-Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date April 30, 2018
May 09 2018 - 4:05PM
At the end of the settlement date of April 30, 2018, short interest
in 2,336 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities
totaled 7,180,931,585 shares compared with 7,225,723,436
shares in 2,332 Global Market issues reported for the prior
settlement date of April 13, 2018. The end-of-April short interest
represents 4.56 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share
volume for the reporting period, compared with 3.68 days for
the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 885 securities on The Nasdaq Capital
MarketSM totaled 1,051,613,428 shares at the end of the
settlement date of April 30, 2018 compared with 1,047,853,121
shares in 888 securities for the previous reporting period.
This represents 2.88 days average daily volume, compared with
the previous reporting period’s figure of 2.52.
In summary, short interest in all 3,221
Nasdaq® securities totaled 8,232,545,013 shares at the
April 30, 2018 settlement date, compared with 3,220 issues
and 8,273,576,557 shares at the end of the previous reporting
period. This is 4.24 days average daily volume, compared with
an average of 3.47 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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