NEW YORK, Aug. 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At the end of the settlement date of August 15, 2022, short interest in 3,454 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 10,108,978,643 shares compared with 10,421,775,644 shares in 3,424 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of July 29, 2022. The mid-August short interest represent 2.71 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 3.25 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 2,100 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 2,099,022,526 shares at the end of the settlement date of August 15, 2022 compared with 2,228,404,105 shares in 2,052 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents a 1.48 day average daily volume; the previous reporting period’s figure was 1.46.
In summary, short interest in all 5,554 Nasdaq® securities totaled 12,208,001,169 shares at the August 15, 2022 settlement date, compared with 5,476 issues and 12,650,179,749 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 2.37 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 2.67 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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