Nasdaq Announces Mid-Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date January 12, 2024

At the end of the settlement date of January 12, 2024, short interest in 3,156 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 10,526,593,349 shares compared with 10,419,434,627 shares in 3,166 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of December 29, 2023. The mid-January short interest represents 3.05 days compared with 2.60 days for the prior reporting period.

Short interest in 1,726 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 2,003,311,075 shares at the end of the settlement date of January 12, 2024, compared with 1,955,740,100 shares in 1,717 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents a 1.00 day average daily volume; the previous reporting period’s figure was 1.00.

In summary, short interest in all 4,882 Nasdaq® securities totaled 12,529,904,424 shares at the January 12, 2024 settlement date, compared with 4,883 issues and 12,375,174,727 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 2.28 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 1.84 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.

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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