NEW YORK, Nov. 27, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At the end of the settlement date of November 15, 2018, short interest in 2,379
Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 7,720,612,339 shares compared with 7,840,465,475 shares in 2,376 Global Market
issues reported for the prior settlement date of October 31, 2018. The mid-November short interest represents 3.26 days average
daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 3.66 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 936 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 898,937,650 shares at the end of the
settlement date of November 15, 2018 compared with 1,029,111,595 shares in 933 securities for the previous reporting period. This
represents 2.96 days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting period’s figure of 2.25.
In summary, short interest in all 3,315 Nasdaq® securities totaled 8,619,549,989 shares at the November 15, 2018 settlement
date, compared with 3,309 issues and 8,869,577,070 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 3.23 days average
daily volume, compared with an average of 3.41 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.
For more information on Nasdaq Short interest positions, including publication dates, visit
http://www.nasdaq.com/quotes/short-interest.aspx
or http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/asp/short_interest.asp.
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