Nasdaq Announces End-of-Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date December 31, 2019
January 10 2020 - 4:23PM
At the end of the settlement date of December 31, 2019, short
interest in 2,425 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities
totaled 8,231,112,337 shares compared with 8,153,100,583
shares in 2,401 Global Market issues reported for the prior
settlement date of December 13, 2019. The end-of-December short
interest represents 4.15 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market
share volume for the reporting period, compared with 4.81 days for
the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 1,038 securities on The Nasdaq Capital
MarketSM totaled 1,007,726,573 shares at the end of the
settlement date of December 31, 2019 compared with 922,202,963
shares in 1,015 securities for the previous reporting period.
This represents 2.33 days average daily volume, compared with the
previous reporting period’s figure of 2.72.
In summary, short interest in all 3,463 Nasdaq® securities
totaled 9,238,838,910 shares at the December 31, 2019 settlement
date, compared with 3,416 issues and 9,085,303,546 shares at
the end of the previous reporting period. This is 3.82 days average
daily volume, compared with an average of 4.47 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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