Short interest in Aberdeen Australia Equity Fund Inc (AMEX:IAF) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 13.75K to 19.80K. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 71.84K 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.