Short interest in iShares MSCI Japan Index Fund (ARCA:EWJ) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 9.66M to 11.42M. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for iShares MSCI Japan Index Fund gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of iShares MSCI Japan Index Fund's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 6.90M shares traded per day, it would take 1.66 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.