NEW YORK, Nov. 25, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At the end of the settlement date of November 14, 2008, short interest in 2,597 NASDAQ Global Market(sm) securities totaled 7,272,722,628 shares compared with 7,712,550,097 shares in 2,610 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of October 31, 2008. The mid-November short interest represents 3.20 days average daily NASDAQ Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 2.71 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 527 securities on The NASDAQ Capital Market(sm) totaled 136,145,312 shares at the end of the settlement date of November 14, 2008, compared with 145,998,762 shares in 532 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents 3.44 days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting period's figure of 3.95.
In summary, short interest in all 3,124 NASDAQ OMX securities totaled 7,408,867,940 shares at the end of the November 14, 2008 settlement date, compared with 3,142 issues and 7,858,548,859 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 3.20 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 2.73 days for the previous reporting period.
The open short interest positions reported for each NASDAQ OMX 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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