Nasdaq Announces End-of-Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date May 31, 2019
June 11 2019 - 4:05PM
At the end of the settlement date of May 31,
2019, short interest in 2,363 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities
totaled 7,955,089,392 shares compared with 7,711,003,086 shares in
2,367 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date
of May 15, 2019. The end-of-May short interest represents 4.08 days
average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the reporting
period, compared with 4.11 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 966 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM
totaled 908,552,762 shares at the end of the settlement date of May
31, 2019 compared with 891,189,174 shares in 964 securities for the
previous reporting period. This represents 3.66 days average daily
volume, compared with the previous reporting period’s figure of
3.89.
In summary, short interest in all 3,329 Nasdaq® securities
totaled 8,863,642,154 shares at the May 31, 2019 settlement date,
compared with 3,331 issues and 8,602,192,260 shares at the end of
the previous reporting period. This is 4.03 days average daily
volume, compared with an average of 4.08 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.aspx or
http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/asp/short_interest.asp.
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Media Contact:
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