NEW YORK, Dec. 10, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At the end of the settlement date of November 29, 2024, short interest in 3,065 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 11,857,580,215 shares compared with 11,973,515,318 shares in 3,070 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of November 15, 2024. The end-of-November short interest represents 2.36 days compared with 2.25 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 1,665 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 2,052,759,872 shares at the end of the settlement date of November 29, 2024, compared with 2,044,997,906 shares in 1,668 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents a 1.00 day average daily volume; the previous reporting period's figure was 1.00.
In summary, short interest in all 4,730 Nasdaq® securities totaled 13,910,340,087 shares at the November 29, 2024 settlement date, compared with 4,738 issues and 14,018,513,224 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 1.78 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 1.83 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
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