NEW YORK, May 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — At the end of the settlement date of May 13, 2022, short interest in 3,400 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 10,514,410,818 shares compared with 10,357,447,523 shares in 3,405 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of April 29, 2022. The mid-May short interest represents 2.49 days compared with 3.11 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 2,050 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 2,561,901,818 shares at the end of the settlement date of May 13, 2022, compared with 2,568,314,439 shares in 2,070 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents a 2.24 day average daily volume; the previous reporting period’s figure was 1.79.
In summary, short interest in all 5,450 Nasdaq® securities totaled 13,076,312,636 shares at the May 13, 2022 settlement date, compared with 5,475 issues and 12,925,761,962 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 2.43 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 2.71 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.
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