At the end of the settlement date of April 15, 2011, short interest in 2,333 NASDAQ Global MarketSM securities totaled 6,488,518,331 shares compared with 6,281,450,253 shares in 2,340 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of March 31, 2011. The mid-April short interest represents 3.72 days average daily NASDAQ Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 3.19 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 498 securities on The NASDAQ Capital MarketSM totaled 392,679,052 shares at the end of the settlement date of April 15, 2011 compared with 386,773,576 shares in 502 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents 3.64 days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting period's figure of 3.08.
In summary, short interest in all 2,831 NASDAQ® securities totaled 6,881,197,383 shares at the April 15, 2011 settlement date, compared with 2,842 issues and 6,668,223,829 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 3.72 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 3.18 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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