Nasdaq Announces End-of-Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date February 26, 2021
NEW YORK, March 09, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At the end of the settlement date of February 26, 2021, short interest in 2,614 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 7,742,433,178 shares compared with 7,694,966,704 shares in 2,611 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of February 12, 2021. The end-of-February short interest represent 2.31 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 2.15 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 1,539 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 1,712,509,908 shares at the end of the settlement date of February 26, 2021 compared with 1,617,382,503 shares in 1,484 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents a 1.0 day average daily volume; the previous reporting period’s figure was also 1.0.
In summary, short interest in all 4,153 Nasdaq® securities totaled 9,454,943,086 shares at the February 26, 2021 settlement date, compared with 4,095 issues and 9,312,349,207 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 1.14 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 1.17 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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