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The NASDAQ Stock Market Announces Open Short- Interest Positions
In NASDAQ Stocks For August 2003
New
York, N.Y.—As
of mid-August, short interest in 2,760 NASDAQ National Market®
securities totaled 4,253,616,217 shares compared with 4,535,616,667
shares in 2,776 National Market issues for the month of July.
The August short interest represents 2.63 days' average daily NASDAQ
National Market share volume for the reporting period, compared
with 2.69* days in July. Short interest in 712 securities on The
NASDAQ SmallCap MarketSM totaled 150,856,007 shares for August,
compared with 147,880,403 shares in 728 securities for the month
of July. This represents 1.14 days average daily volume, compared
with last month's figure of 0.99* days.
In summary, short interest in all 3,472 NASDAQ® securities totaled
4,404,472,224 shares for August, compared with 3,504 issues and
4,683,497,070 shares in July. This is 2.51 days' average daily volume,
compared with last month's average of 2.55* 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 July 16
through August 12 and settled as of August 15, 2003.
The total NASDAQ short positions for the preceding 13 months and
current month follow:
|
Settlement
Date
|
Total
Short Interest
|
Number
of
Securities
|
| 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
|
|
November
15, 2002
|
4,062,892,810
|
3,670
|
|
December
13, 2002
|
4,043,183,358
|
3,666
|
|
January
15, 2003
|
4,053,387,295
|
3,686
|
| February
14, 2003 |
4,190,132,904
|
3,668
|
| March
14, 2003 |
4,335,164,375
|
3,585
|
| April
15, 2003 |
4,456,502,765
|
3,592
|
| May
15, 2003 |
4,386,454,785
|
3,566
|
| June
13, 2003 |
4,604,557,148
|
3,569
|
| July
15, 2003 |
4,683,497,070
|
3,504
|
| August
15, 2003 |
4,404,472,224
|
3,472
|
For
more information on NASDAQ Short-Interest positions, visit the www.nasdaqtrader.com
Web site.
*Days-to-cover
figures from June have been updated to correct a minor irregularity
in the calculations.
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