Nasdaq Announces End of Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date July 31, 2024

NEW YORK, Aug. 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At the end of the settlement date of July 31, 2024, short interest in 3,043 Nasdaq Global Market^SM securities totaled 11,985,723,964 shares compared with 12,309,469,231 shares in 3,044 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of July 15, 2024. The end of July short interest represent 2.90 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 2.95 days for the prior reporting period.

Short interest in 1,692 securities on The Nasdaq Capital Market^SM totaled 2,082,532,251 shares at the end of the settlement date of July 31, 2024 compared with 2,046,452,681 shares in 1,687 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents a 1.29 day average daily volume; the previous reporting period’s figure was 1.43.

In summary, short interest in all 4,735 Nasdaq^® securities totaled 14,068,256,215 shares at the July 31, 2024 settlement date, compared with 4,731 issues and 14,355,921,912 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 2.44 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 2.56 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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