New 13 Month High for NASDAQ Short interest.
THE NASDAQ STOCK MARKET ANNOUNCES OPEN SHORT INTEREST POSITIONS IN NASDAQ STOCKS FOR JUNE 2004
New York, NY —As of mid-June, short interest in 2,780 NASDAQ National Market® securities totaled 5,011,098,331 shares compared with 4,822,415,847 shares in 2,753 National Market issues for the month of May.
The June short interest represents 3.33 days’ average daily NASDAQ National Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 2.78 days in May. Short interest in 650 securities on The NASDAQ SmallCap MarketSM totaled 159,889,642 shares for June, compared with 174,099,400 shares in 663 securities for the month of May. This represents 1.93 days average daily volume, compared with last month’s figure of .91 days.
In summary, short interest in all 3,430 NASDAQ® securities totaled 5,011,098,331 shares for June, compared with 3,416 issues and 4,822,415,847 shares in May. This is 3.25 days’ average daily volume, compared with last month’s average of 2.59 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 May 11 through June 10 and settled as of June 15, 2004.
The total NASDAQ short positions for the preceding 13 months and current month follow:
Settlement Date Total Short Interest Number of Securities
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
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 |
