Short interest in Western Asset Emg Markets Debt Fund Inc (NYSE:EMD) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 30.47K to 38.58K. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 176.38K 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.