Nasdaq Announces End-of-Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date October 31, 2024
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Nasdaq reported short interest positions for the settlement date of October 31, 2024. In the Nasdaq Global Market, short interest totaled 12.17 billion shares across 3,083 securities, down from 12.30 billion shares in 3,089 issues on October 15. The mid-October short interest represents 3.02 days compared to 3.26 days previously.
The Nasdaq Capital Market showed short interest of 2.13 billion shares in 1,664 securities, slightly up from 2.13 billion shares in 1,659 securities. Overall, total short interest across all 4,747 Nasdaq securities was 14.30 billion shares, down from 14.43 billion shares, with average daily volume decreasing to 2.36 days from 2.58 days.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At the end of the settlement date of October 31, 2024, short interest in 3,083 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 12,172,949,545 shares compared with 12,303,886,017 shares in 3,089 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of October 15, 2024. The mid-October short interest represents 3.02 days compared with 3.26 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 1,664 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 2,128,624,815 shares at the end of the settlement date of October 31, 2024, compared with 2,127,809,664 shares in 1,659 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents a 1.05 day average daily volume; the previous reporting period’s figure was 1.17.
In summary, short interest in all 4,747 Nasdaq® securities totaled 14,301,574,360 shares at the October 31, 2024 settlement date, compared with 4,748 issues and 14,431,695,681 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 2.36 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 2.58 days for the prior 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.
For more information on Nasdaq Short interest positions, including publication dates, visit http://www.nasdaq.com/quotes/short-interest.aspx or http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/asp/short_interest.asp.
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Jennifer Lawson
jennifer.lawson@nasdaq.com
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