short interest
nounFinance.
the total amount by which a single seller or all sellers are short in a particular stock or commodity or in the market as a whole.
Origin of short interest
1An Americanism dating back to 1885–90
- Also called short account, short position.
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How to use short interest in a sentence
Redditors have pounced on several companies with short interest in an attempt to force a short squeeze.
The meteoric rise in GameStop's stock price is being called a short squeeze by most but that's not what's happening, says an expert on short interest and the market.
Then again it's an open question how much stock is owned on the street and how great a short interest has been created.
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