NASDAQ Announces Mid-month Open Short Interest Positions in NASDAQ Stocks as of Settlement...

NASDAQ Announces Mid-month Open Short Interest Positions in NASDAQ Stocks as of
Settlement Date March 13, 2009

NEW YORK, March 24, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At the end of the settlement date
of March 13, 2009, short interest in 2,521 NASDAQ Global Market(sm) securities
totaled 7,246,261,438 shares compared with 6,928,787,193 shares in 2,532 Global
Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of February 27, 2009. The
mid-March short interest represents 3.07 days average daily NASDAQ Global Market
share volume for the reporting period, compared with 3.12 days for the prior
reporting period.

Short interest in 458 securities on The NASDAQ Capital Market(sm) totaled
102,559,440 shares at the end of the settlement date of March 13, 2009 compared
with 108,416,653 shares in 482 securities for the previous reporting period.
This represents 2.96 days average daily volume, compared with the previous
reporting period's figure of 2.89.

In summary, short interest in all 2,979 NASDAQ(r) securities totaled
7,348,820,878 shares at the mid-March 13, 2009 settlement date, compared with
3,014 issues and 7,037,203,846 shares at the end of the previous reporting
period. This is 3.07 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 3.11
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.nasdaqtrader.com/asp/short_interest.asp.

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