NEW YORK, Oct. 24, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At the end of the settlement date of October 13, 2023, short interest in 3,231 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 10,705,010,843 shares compared with 10,707,778,036 shares in 3,232 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of September 29, 2023. The mid-October short interest represents 3.25 days compared with 2.94 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 1,767 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 1,950,317,981 shares at the end of the settlement date of October 13, 2023, compared with 1,941,091,911 shares in 1,761 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents a 1.57 day average daily volume; the previous reporting period's figure was 1.30.
In summary, short interest in all 4,998 Nasdaq® securities totaled 12,655,328,824 shares at the October 13, 2023 settlement date, compared with 4,993 issues and 12,648,869,947 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 2.79 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 2.46 days 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.
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