| For
Release: Contacts: |
October
24, 2002 |
The NASDAQ Stock Market Announces Open Short-Interest Positions
In NASDAQ Stocks For October 2002
New York, N.Y.—-As
of mid-October, short interest in 2,943 NASDAQ National Market® securities
totaled 4,066,564,600 shares compared with 4,031,261,847 shares in 3,045
National Market issues for the month of September.
The October short interest represents 2.75 days' average daily NASDAQ
National Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 2.91
days in September. Short interest in 680 securities on The NASDAQ SmallCap
MarketSM totaled 85,889,617 shares for October, compared with 77,047,066
in 692 securities for the month of September. This represents 2.84 days
average daily volume, compared with last month's figure of 2.37 days.
In summary, short interest in all 3,623 NASDAQ® securities totaled
4,152,454,217 shares for October, compared with 3,737 issues and 4,108,308,913
shares in September. This is 2.75 days' average daily volume, compared
with last month's average of 2.90 days.
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.
The monthly NASDAQ short-interest figures are current as of the 15th of
the month and are released to the media after the market close on the
seventh business day following that date. The figures this month include
all short-interest positions reported September 16 through October 9 and
settled as of October 15, 2002.
The total NASDAQ short positions for the preceding 13 months and current
month follow:
|
Settlement
Date
|
Total
Short Interest
|
Number
of
Securities |
|
October
15, 2001
|
4,062,363,080
|
4,092
|
|
November
15, 2001
|
4,175,725,953
|
4,083
|
|
December
14, 2001
|
4,206,146,735
|
4,044
|
|
January
15, 2002
|
4,023,953,114
|
4,047
|
|
February
15, 2002
|
3,978,074,188
|
4,013
|
|
March
15, 2002
|
4,085,825,647
|
4,018
|
|
April
15, 2002
|
4,124,763,193
|
3,954
|
|
May
15, 2002
|
4,246,945,373
|
3,926
|
| June 14, 2002 |
4,261,435,815
|
3,831
|
| July 15, 2002 |
4,335,747,422
|
3,784
|
| August 15, 2002 |
4,105,634,585
|
3,758
|
| September 13, 2002 |
4,108,308,913
|
3,737
|
| October 15, 2002 |
4,152,454,217
|
3,623
|
For more information on NASDAQ Short-Interest positions, visit the www.marketdata.nasdaq.com Web site.