Short-sellers are disappearing as stock market gears up for shortened holiday week
November 23, 2020 at 00:44 AM EST
You might not know it from the depressing headlines, but it's been a increasingly brutal stretch for those betting against the stock market. At the end of October, the median stock in the S&P 500 had outstanding short interest accounting for just 1.6% of market cap, the lowest level since at least 2004, according to Goldman data.