Nasdaq Announces Mid-Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date February 15, 2018
February 27 2018 - 4:30PM
At the end of the settlement date of February 15, 2018, short
interest in 2,340 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled
7,076,038,987 shares compared with 7,051,449,916 shares in 2,348
Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of
January 31, 2017. The mid-February short interest represents 3.36
days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the
reporting period, compared with 4.06 days for the prior reporting
period.
Short interest in 867 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM
totaled 890,663,769 shares at the end of the settlement date of
February 15, 2018 compared with 853,597,571 shares in 866
securities for the previous reporting period. This represents 2.40
days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting
period’s figure of 2.17.
In summary, short interest in all 3,207 Nasdaq® securities
totaled 7,966,702,756 shares at the February 15, 2018 settlement
date, compared with 3,214 issues and 7,905,047,487 shares at the
end of the previous reporting period. This is 3.22 days average
daily volume, compared with an average of 3.71 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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