Nasdaq Announces Mid-Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date August 14, 2020
August 25 2020 - 4:05PM
At the end of the settlement date of August 14, 2020, short
interest in 2,463 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled
7,892,967,928 shares compared with 7,932,329,822 shares in 2,455
Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of July
31, 2020. The mid-August short interest represents 3.04 days
compared with 2.75 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 1,078 securities on The Nasdaq Capital
MarketSM totaled 1,217,698,749 shares at the end of the settlement
date of August 14, 2020 compared with 1,235,640,598 shares in 1,062
securities for the previous reporting period. This represents a 1.0
day average daily volume; the previous reporting period’s figure
was also 1.0.
In summary, short interest in all 3,541 Nasdaq® securities
totaled 9,110,666,677 shares at the August 14, 2020 settlement
date, compared with 3,517 issues and 9,167,970,420 shares at the
end of the previous reporting period. This is 2.19 days average
daily volume, compared with an average of 2.09 for the prior
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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