Short interest in Blackrock Municipal Income Quality Trust (NYSE:BYM) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 24.41K to 35.78K. This put 0.14% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 50.72K 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.