DGAP-News: NASDAQ Announces Mid-Month Open Short Interest Positions in NASDAQ Stocks as of Settlement Date December 15, 2010

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.

27.12.2010 23:25
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NEW YORK, 2010-12-27 23:24 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) –At the end of the settlement date of December 15, 2010, short interest in 2,371
NASDAQ Global Market(SM)securities totaled 6,527,169,027 shares compared with
6,732,687,149 shares in 2,386 Global Market issues reported for the prior
settlement date of November 30, 2010. The mid-December short interest
represents 3.85 days average daily NASDAQ Global Market share volume for the
reporting period, compared with 3.39 days for the prior reporting period.

Short interest in 487 securities on The NASDAQ Capital Market(SM)totaled
313,338,005 shares at the end of the settlement date of December 15, 2010
compared with 301,703,821 shares in 487 securities for the previous reporting
period. This represents 3.63 days average daily volume, compared with the
previous reporting period–s figure of 3.48.

In summary, short interest in all 2,858 NASDAQ(r) securities totaled
6,840,507,032 shares at the December 15, 2010 settlement date, compared with
2,873 issues and 7,034,390,970 shares at the end of the previous reporting
period. This is 3.84 days average daily volume, compared with an average of
3.39 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://quotes.nasdaq.com/asp/MasterDataEntry.asppage=ShortInterest
or http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/asp/short_interest.asp.

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