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NEW YORK, Nov. 09, 2016 -- At the end of the settlement date of October 31, 2016, short interest in 2,327 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 7,603,044,420 shares compared with 7,496,240,405 shares in 2,334 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of October 14, 2016. The end-of-October short interest represents 5.35 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 4.83 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 781 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 693,720,312 shares at the end of the settlement date of October 31, 2016 compared with 686,622,110 shares in 778 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents 4.14 days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting period’s figure of 3.32.
In summary, short interest in all 3,108 Nasdaq® securities totaled 8,296,764,732 shares at the October 31, 2016 settlement date, compared with 3,112 issues and 8,182,862,515 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 5.22 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 4.65 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.
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