Short interest in Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. 6.0518% Index Plus Trust Certificates Series 2003-1 (NYSE:IPB) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 416.00 to 581.00. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. 6.0518% Index Plus Trust Certificates Series 2003-1 gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. 6.0518% Index Plus Trust Certificates Series 2003-1's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 1.61K 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.