Nasdaq Announces Mid-Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date October 15, 2020
October 26 2020 - 4:05PM
At the end of the settlement date of October 15, 2020, short
interest in 2,517 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled
8,261,327,139 shares compared with 8,379,625,495 shares in 2,499
Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of
September 30, 2020. The mid-August short interest represents 3.17
days compared with 2.83 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 1,150 securities on The Nasdaq
Capital MarketSM totaled 1,309,811,101 shares at the end of the
settlement date of October 15, 2020 compared with 1,380,699,724
shares in 1,135 securities for the previous reporting period. This
represents a 1.06 days average daily volume; the previous reporting
period’s figure was 1.43.
In summary, short interest in all 3,667 Nasdaq®
securities totaled 9,571,138,240 shares at the October 15, 2020
settlement date, compared with 3,634 issues and 9,760,325,219
shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 2.49
days average daily volume, compared with an average of 2.48 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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Media Contact: Matthew
Sheahanmatthew.sheahan@nasdaq.com
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