NEW YORK, Sept. 25, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- At the end of the settlement date of September 14, 2007, short interest in 2,714 NASDAQ Global Market(sm) securities totaled 8,138,297,370 shares compared with 8,809,420,409 shares in 2,747 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of August 15, 2007. The mid-September short interest represents 4.00 days average daily NASDAQ Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 3.54 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 521 securities on The NASDAQ Capital Market(sm) totaled 179,185,927 shares at the end of the settlement date of September 14, 2007, compared with 191,667,395 shares in 526 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents 4.54 days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting period's figure of 3.51.
In summary, short interest in all 3,235 NASDAQ(r) securities totaled 8,317,483,297 shares at the end of the September 14, 2007 settlement date, compared with 3,273 issues and 9,001,087,804 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 4.01 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 3.54 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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