Nasdaq Announces Mid-Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date May 15, 2020
May 27 2020 - 4:05PM
At the end of the settlement date of May 15, 2020, short interest
in 2,423 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 7,989,729,389
shares compared with 7,740,375,584 shares in 2,422 Global
Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of April 30,
2020. The mid-May short interest represents 2.90 days compared with
2.91 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 1,033 securities on The Nasdaq Capital
MarketSM totaled 1,088,545,167 shares at the end of the settlement
date of May 15, 2020 compared with 1,049,509,012 shares in 1,036
securities for the previous reporting period. This represents 1.00
days average daily volume; the previous reporting period’s figure
was 1.00.
In summary, short interest in all 3,456
Nasdaq® securities totaled 9,078,274,556 shares at the May 15,
2020 settlement date, compared with 3,458 issues and 8,789,884,596
shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 2.36
days average daily volume, compared with an average of 2.37 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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