Short sellers reduced their bets against the information technology sector in October. The sector that holds the highest weightage on the S&P had an average short interest of 1.70% in October, down ...

As of October end, average short interest across S&P 500 real estate stocks increased to 2.65% of shares float from 2.51% at the end of the prior month. Short interest in a stock represents the number ...

For Russell 1,000 stocks, the average stock has 5% of float sold short (median: 3.5%). On an industry level, auto stocks continue to see elevated levels of short interest, largely due to the presence ...