At the end of the settlement date of April 15, 2008, short interest in 2,680 NASDAQ Global Market(SM) securities totaled 9,420,702,070 shares compared with 9,480,978,979 shares in 2,688 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of March 31, 2008. The mid-April short interest represents 4.92 days average daily NASDAQ Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 3.97 days for the prior reporting period.