Nasdaq Announces Mid-Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date October 14, 2022
NEW YORK, Oct. 25, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At the end of the settlement date of October 14, 2022, short interest in 3,446 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 10,553,498,844 shares compared with 10,500,336,239 shares in 3,450 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of September 30, 2022. The mid-October short interest represents 2.96 days compared with 2.80 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 2,080 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 2,005,072,706 shares at the end of the settlement date of October 14, 2022, compared with 1,996,878,130 shares in 2,064 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents a 2.21 day average daily volume; the previous reporting period’s figure was 1.79.
In summary, short interest in all 5,526 Nasdaq® securities totaled 12,558,571,550 shares at the October 14, 2022 settlement date, compared with 5,514 issues and 12,497,214,369 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 2.81 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 2.57 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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