Short interest in Western Asset High Income Fund II Inc (NYSE:HIX) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 116.76K to 297.05K. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 403.50K 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.