NEW YORK, June 09, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At the end of the settlement date of May 31, 2016, short interest in 2,307 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 7,885,936,338 shares compared with 7,897,704,412 shares in 2,306 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of May 13, 2016. The end-of-May short interest represents 4.73 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 4.42 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 761 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 666,611,494 shares at the end of the settlement date of May 31, 2016 compared with 667,712,477 shares in 763 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents 4.04 days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting period's figure of 4.18.
In summary, short interest in all 3,068 Nasdaq® securities totaled 8,552,547,832 shares at the May 31, 2016 settlement date, compared with 3,069 issues and 8,565,416,889 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 4.67 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 4.4 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, visit http://www.nasdaq.com/quotes/short-interest.aspx or http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/asp/short_interest.asp.
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