Short interest in ABERDEEN EMERGING MARKETS EQUITY INCOME FUND, INC. (AMEX:AEF) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 7.26K to 26.73K. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for ABERDEEN EMERGING MARKETS gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of ABERDEEN EMERGING MARKETS's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 86.09K shares traded per day, it would take 1 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.