Nasdaq Announces Mid-Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date November 15, 2016
November 28 2016 - 9:00AM
At the end of the settlement date of November 15, 2016, short
interest in 2,326 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities
totaled 7,733,350,362 shares compared with 7,603,044,420 shares in
2,327 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date
of October 31, 2016. The mid-November short interest represents
4.50 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the
reporting period, compared with 5.35 days for the prior reporting
period.
Short interest in 774 securities on The Nasdaq
Capital MarketSM totaled 668,309,062 shares at the end of the
settlement date of November 15, 2016 compared with 693,720,312
shares in 781 securities for the previous reporting
period. This represents 4.22 days average daily volume, compared
with the previous reporting period’s figure of 4.14.
In summary, short interest in all 3,100 Nasdaq® securities
totaled 8,401,659,424 shares at the November 15, 2016 settlement
date, compared with 3,108 issues and 8,296,764,732 shares at the
end of the previous reporting period. This is 4.47 days average
daily volume, compared with an average of 5.22 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.aspxor
http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/asp/short_interest.asp.
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