Nasdaq Announces Mid-Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date July 15, 2024
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Nasdaq has released its mid-month open short interest positions for Nasdaq stocks as of July 15, 2024. Key highlights include:
- Short interest in 3,044 Nasdaq Global Market securities totaled 12,309,469,231 shares, up from 12,156,830,526 shares in 3,052 issues on June 28, 2024.
- The mid-July short interest represents 2.95 days of average daily volume, down from 3.37 days in the prior period.
- For the Nasdaq Capital Market, short interest in 1,687 securities totaled 2,046,452,681 shares, slightly up from 2,040,351,094 shares in 1,685 securities previously.
- Overall, short interest across all 4,731 Nasdaq securities totaled 14,355,921,912 shares, representing 2.56 days of average daily volume.
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NEW YORK, July 24, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At the end of the settlement date of July 15, 2024, short interest in 3,044 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 12,309,469,231 shares compared with 12,156,830,526 shares in 3,052 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of June 28, 2024. The mid-July short interest represents 2.95 days compared with 3.37 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 1,687 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 2,046,452,681 shares at the end of the settlement date of July 15, 2024, compared with 2,040,351,094 shares in 1,685 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents a 1.43 day average daily volume; the previous reporting period’s figure was 1.00.
In summary, short interest in all 4,731 Nasdaq® securities totaled 14,355,921,912 shares at the July 15, 2024 settlement date, compared with 4,737 issues and 14,197,181,620 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 2.56 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 2.51 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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