NASDAQ Announces End-of-Month Open Short Interest Positions in NASDAQ Stocks as of Settlement Date October 31, 2011
November 09 2011 - 4:05PM
At the end of the settlement date of October 31, 2011, short
interest in 2,277 NASDAQ Global MarketSM securities totaled
6,718,917,154 shares compared with 7,157,409,848 shares in 2,288
Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of
October 14, 2011. The end-of-October short interest represents 3.66
days average daily NASDAQ Global Market share volume for the
reporting period, compared with 3.15 days for the prior reporting
period.
Short interest in 496 securities on The NASDAQ Capital MarketSM
totaled 352,392,555 shares at the end of the settlement date of
October 31, 2011 compared with 355,968,209 shares in 495 securities
for the previous reporting period. This represents 7.48 days
average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting period's
figure of 7.46.
In summary, short interest in all 2,773 NASDAQ® securities
totaled 7,071,309,709 shares at the October 31, 2011 settlement
date, compared with 2,783 issues and 7,513,378,057 shares at the
end of the previous reporting period. This is 3.75 days average
daily volume, compared with an average of 3.24 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://quotes.nasdaq.com/asp/MasterDataEntry.asp?page=ShortInterest
or http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/asp/short_interest.asp.
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