This mid-December short interest represents 3.43 days average daily NASDAQ Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 3.11 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in all 3,058 NASDAQ OMX securities totaled 7,246,545,752 shares at the end of 15 December 2008 settlement date, compared with 3,102 issues and 7,495,467,546 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 3.43 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 3.11 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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