NASDAQ Announces 7.272B Shares Short as of Feb 28 vs 7.265B Shares Short as of Feb 14

At the end of the settlement date of February 28, 2014, short interest in 2,175 NASDAQ Global MarketSM securities totaled 7,272,486,663 shares compared with 7,264,979,104 shares in 2,175 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of February 14, 2014. The end-of-February short interest represents 3.99 days average daily NASDAQ Global Market share volume for the reporting period, compared with 3.52 days for the prior reporting period. Short interest in 587 securities on The NASDAQ Capital MarketSM totaled 542,583,385 shares at the end of the settlement date of February 28, 2014 compared with 537,933,555 shares in 580 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents 3.08 days average daily volume, compared with the previous reporting period's figure of 3.47 . In summary, short interest in all 2,762 NASDAQ® securities totaled 7,815,070,048 shares at the February 28, 2014 settlement date, compared with 2,755 issues and 7,802,912,659 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 3.91 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 3.52 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. For more information on NASDAQ Short interest positions, including publication dates, visit http://www.nasdaq.com/quotes/short-interest.aspx or http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/asp/short_interest.asp. About NASDAQ OMX Group NASDAQ OMX

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