NEW YORK, June 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At the end of the settlement date of June 14, 2024, short interest in 3,063 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 12,415,199,809 shares compared with 11,833,288,492 shares in 3,059 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of May 31, 2024. The mid-June short interest represents 3.44 days compared with 3.54 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 1,687 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 2,046,668,652 shares at the end of the settlement date of June 14, 2024, compared with 2,052,748,548 shares in 1,695 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents a 1.00 day average daily volume; the previous reporting period's figure was 1.00.
In summary, short interest in all 4,750 Nasdaq® securities totaled 14,461,868,461 shares at the June 14, 2024 settlement date, compared with 4,754 issues and 13,886,037,040 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 2.56 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 1.73 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.
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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