NASDAQ Announces End-of-Month Open Short Interest Positions in NASDAQ Stocks as of Settlement Date June 28, 2013

At the end of the settlement date of June 28, 2013, short interest in 2,129 NASDAQ Global MarketSM securities totaled 7,139,579,005 shares compared with 7,160,090,825 shares in 2,127 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of June 14, 2013. The end-of-June short interest represents 4.26 days average daily NASDAQ Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 4.24 days for the prior reporting period. Short interest in 529 securities on The NASDAQ Capital MarketSM totaled 417,762,857 shares at the end of the settlement date of June 28, 2013 compared with 413,693,558 shares in 526 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents 4.31 days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting period's figure of 3.90. In summary, short interest in all 2,658 NASDAQ® securities totaled 7,557,341,862 shares at the June 28, 2013 settlement date, compared with 2,653 issues and 7,573,784,383 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 4.27 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 4.22 days for the previous 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.