NEW YORK, May 9, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At the end of the settlement date of April 30, 2014, short interest in 2,187 NASDAQ Global MarketSM securities totaled 7,621,693,707 shares compared with 7,668,806,586 shares in 2,184 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of April 15, 2014. The end-of-April short interest represents 4.09 days average daily NASDAQ Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 3.70 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 596 securities on The NASDAQ Capital MarketSM totaled 639,352,697 shares at the end of the settlement date of April 31, 2014 compared with 641,066,409 shares in 600 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents 4.66 days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting period's figure of 3.31.
In summary, short interest in all 2,783 NASDAQ® securities totaled 8,261,046,404 shares at the April 31, 2014 settlement date, compared with 2,784 issues and 8,309,872,995 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 4.12 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 3.66 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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