Short interest in Western Asset High Income Fund II Inc (NYSE:HIX) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 171.57K to 150.27K. 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 369.78K 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.