NEW YORK, Feb. 11, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At the end of the settlement date of January 31, 2014, short interest in 2,166 NASDAQ Global MarketSM securities totaled 7,121,344,575 shares compared with 7,109,533,384 shares in 2,163 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of January 15, 2014. The end-of-January short interest represents 3.68 days average daily NASDAQ Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 4.90 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 581 securities on The NASDAQ Capital MarketSM totaled 513,374,101 shares at the end of the settlement date of January 31, 2014 compared with 508,767,575 shares in 572 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents 2.25 days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting period's figure of 2.79.
In summary, short interest in all 2,747 NASDAQ® securities totaled 7,634,718,676 shares at the January 31, 2014 settlement date, compared with 2,735 issues and 7,618,300,959 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 3.53 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 4.66 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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