| The NASDAQ Stock Market Announces Open Short-Interest Positions In NASDAQ Stocks For August 2004
New York, NY —As of mid-August, short interest in 2,754 NASDAQ National Market ® securities totaled 5,008,236,375 shares compared with 4,943,833,167 shares in 2,756 National Market issues for the month of July.
The August short interest represents 3.03 days' average daily NASDAQ National Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 3.14 days in July. Short interest in 646 securities on The NASDAQ SmallCap MarketSM totaled 149,469,950 shares for August, compared with 165,863,562 shares in 649 securities for the month of July. This represents 1.98 days average daily volume, compared with last month's figure of 1.87 days.
In summary, short interest in all 3,400 NASDAQ® securities totaled 5,157,706,325 shares for August, compared with 3,405 issues and 5,109,696,729 shares in July. This is 2.98 days' average daily volume, compared with last month's average of 3.07 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 12 through August 10 and settled as of August 13, 2004.
The total NASDAQ short positions for the preceding 13 months and current month follow:
| Settlement Date |
Total Short Interest |
Number of Securities |
| August 15, 2003 |
4,404,472,224 |
3,472 |
| September 15, 2003 |
4,521,740,414 |
3,497 |
| October 15, 2003 |
4,584,107,664 |
3,474 |
| November 14, 2003 |
4,563,123,033 |
3,456 |
| December 15, 2003 |
4,713,016,555 |
3,440 |
| January 15, 2003 |
4,687,305,136 |
3,454 |
| February 13, 2004 |
4,593,580,829 |
3,463 |
| March 15, 2004 |
4,855,579,913 |
3,443 |
| April 15, 2004 |
4,993,345,137 |
3,443 |
| May 14, 2004 |
4,958,452,082 |
3,416 |
| June 15, 2004 |
5,170,987,973 |
3,430 |
| July 15, 2004 |
5,109,696,729 |
3,405 |
| August 13, 2004 |
5,157,706,325 |
3,400 |
For more information on NASDAQ Short-Interest positions, visit the www.nasdaqtrader.com Web site.
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