At the end of the settlement date of March 15, 2024, short interest in 3,114 Nasdaq Global Market^SM securities totaled 11,183,649,858 shares compared with 10,786,577,263 shares in 3,142 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of February 29, 2024. The mid-March short interest represents 2.75 days compared with 2.69 days for the prior reporting period.

Short interest in 1,731 securities on The Nasdaq Capital Market^SM totaled 1,838,055,964 shares at the end of the settlement date of March 15, 2024, compared with 1,993,242,910 shares in 1,714 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents a 1.18 day average daily volume; the previous reporting period’s figure was 1.30.

In summary, short interest in all 4,845 Nasdaq® securities totaled 13,021,705,822 shares at the March 15, 2024 settlement date, compared with 4,856 issues and 12,779,820,173 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 2.31 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 2.31 days for the prior 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.

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