Nasdaq Announces End of Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date January 31, 2024
NEW YORK, Feb. 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At the end of the settlement date of January 31, 2024, short interest in 3,159 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 10,558,925,893 shares compared with 10,526,593,349 shares in 3,156 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of January 12, 2024. The end of January short interest represent 2.85 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 3.05 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 1,730 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 1,985,023,644 shares at the end of the settlement date of January 31, 2024 compared with 2,003,311,075 shares in 1,726 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents a 1.16 day average daily volume; the previous reporting period’s figure was 1.00.
In summary, short interest in all 4,889 Nasdaq® securities totaled 12,543,949,537 shares at the January 31, 2024 settlement date, compared with 4,882 issues and 12,529,904,424 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 2.32 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 2.28 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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