At the end of the settlement date of May 30, 2008, short interest in 2,643 NASDAQ Global Market(sm) securities totaled 9,687,044,281 shares compared with 9,500,539,527 shares in 2,641 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of May 15, 2008. The end-of-May short interest represents 4.94 days average daily NASDAQ Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 4.53 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 515 securities on The NASDAQ Capital Market(sm) totaled 176,209,519 shares at the end of the settlement date of May 30, 2008, compared with 170,590,779 shares in 503 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents 2.65 days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting period's figure of 3.82.
In summary, short interest in all 3,158 NASDAQ(r) securities totaled 9,863,253,800 shares at the end of the May 30, 2008 settlement date, compared with 3,144 issues and 9,671,130,306 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 4.87 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 4.52 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. -- www.nasdaq.com
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